This insanity is endless...

[oldcolner]

Emotive and may not be true.

There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7% of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark.
The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.3 %. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 %.



A third cut in ours will take us down to 0.49% double the US amount.

The top five countries receiving UK aid in 2018 were Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Syria and Afghanistan. Many of the people living in these countries face conflict, extreme poverty and unstable climates.

A study by three economists published in February found that billions of pounds of aid allocated to the most in-need nations ends up in tax havens.

The study, Elite Capture of Foreign Aid, tracked the flow of aid money to 22 nations, finding that as much as a sixth ended up in tax havens like Switzerland.

Cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget has long been a clarion call of the right-wing press, as well as a sizeable number of MPs. As spending across government has been cut or stagnated over the past decade, the foreign aid budget has more than doubled.

And specific examples appear to have riled observers. The Daily Mail reported earlier this year how a mosque in Egypt has been rebuilt using British aid as “millions of pounds are lavished on arts and culture projects abroad”.

The paper adds that “Britain has also increased aid spending in China and India – even as both plan to send missions to the Moon”.

Of course all this ignores money donated by the public in the UK to many aid Charities like DEC, Oxfam, Save the Children