UK Foreign Aid: Bongo Bongo or saving lives?
There is little doubt that Godfrey Bloom's comments were over exaggerated, old fashioned and borderline racist. However, with more and more of taxpayers money being spent on international development it is an issue that can't be shied away from for fear of being branded racist. In fact, this year Britain will become the first G8 country to stick to a decades old promise to spend 0.7% of GDP. That's £11.3 billion a year, roughly £130 per taxpayer. Many will ask whether the policy is right given the current economic situation (which despite the recent improvements is still mired in £1.3 trillion of debt). Some believe we should act like Germany (which has cut its aid budget by £1 billion in 2012) or super rich Monaco (whose own austerity program has included the cutting of one departmental budget: foreign aid). Despite this, David Cameron has boasted of the policy, which plays well to his obscured but still present compassionate conservatism agenda. Public opinion on for
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