Foreign Aid petition

Yes, of course you would, most of us wouldn’t expect anything else.

I was brought up in the belief that charity begins at home. You obviously don’t subscribe to that notion. It might be that people who believe as you do are in charge of our international aid payments which is perhaps why parents of young children over 12 months of age have to demonstrate on the streets and petition the Govt. to make available the medicine that successfully deals with the meningitus bacterium and which is denied them on cost grounds.

Almost daily, your newspaper and mine, brings drug shortages to the public notice. What do NICE comment ? It’s too expensive; it means just a short extension to the patients lifespan. In the meantime we generously shovel much baksheesh into the back pockets of sundry despots around the world who then trot off to the nearest Mercedes dealership.

Yes, of course you’d sign a counter petition we’d expect nothing less from you. You’ve got your priorities in the right order.

Permit me to re-arrange your quote: “The UK’s aid commitment means we can be proud to be a country that meets its responsibilities to first its own citizens, prioritises their needs and then ensures that overseas aid goes to those most in need”.

I would sign a counter petition if there is one, especially as I think it is the one promoted by the Daily Heil

the government response is already on that site

“The UK’s aid commitment means we can be proud to be a country that not only meets its responsibilities to the world’s poorest, but in doing so best serves and protects its own security and interests.