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  In view of the proposed short term cuts of £6.2 billion and long term cuts of £160 billion Can any one explain why the overseas aid budget has not been "ring fenced".??
  We now find ourselves not being given an option of tightening our belts, rather it is being imposed o n us against our will.
  Overseas aid expenditure at the present stands at £6 billion and is set to increase to £9billion or 0.7% of gross domestic product.
  If I thought for one moment that all that money was indeed used to put food in front of the needy then I would not have an objection. However the facts are that all this aid is not used for the purposes as proscribed. A good percentage of it is syphoned off to grease palms of corrupt governments, to buy arms which in turn help undemocratic governments to suppress there own peoples.
  If one considers all the different varieties of corruption across the world and delve into the financing of any of them you will find overseas development aid forms a stable grounding.
  My question to the new government is as follows
  "If I am asked to make cut backs on essentials then why is my government not imposing the same terms of referance to overseas aid"??

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