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Originally Posted by Chris
UK welfare spending in 2012: £117 billion.
UK overseas aid spending in 2012: £8.8 billion.
This, I submit, constitutes "looking after your own people first".
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Yet, we still have cuts here. That means we need that 8.8 billion here.
Our govt has a duty to look after the population of the UK first. If everyone here is properly provided for then and only then, imo, should the govt be looking around the world for other people to give our money to.
Thinking about it, if the govt has surplus money to give away then they should reduce our taxes. If they don't have surplus money then they shouldn't be giving it to other countries.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
I have no intention of changing my mind because i have always said charity begins and ends at home.
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Damn right. If the people of the UK want to give money to overseas aid then they can do so on a private, individual basis (remember Band Aid)........our govt has no business giving our money away....especially in times like these!