So Let Me Get This Right...

[bazwillrun]

Money we currently throw away to the eussr every yeary £11 billion net give or take a few pence....

Money we throw away on "foreign aid" £11billion a year and rising thanks to eussr laws foisted on us

NHS defecit £930million !....

Yeah lets stay in the euussr and give £20 plus billion and rising, away each and every year....meanwhile good fiscal sense...if we are going to waste money, I'd rather see it wasted here !......

[fiction-factory]

You have not included the figure we do spend on the NHS though- about £115 biiion a year.
I think as one of the world's leading economies we have made a committment along with others to give a very small percentage to foreign aid- although a lot of it is done to get something in return.
I'd liek to see a breakdown of the EU money- are you taking account of what we get back too?

[andy-hughes]

The amount of foreign aid we give out is 0.7% of GDP, and as fiction advises, it is seen as investments in developing countries which will ultimately prove their worth.

[bazwillrun]

eu is net, i assume thats our "rebate"

[bazwillrun]

foreign aid is a bottomless pit to throw money in,and theyll keep on taking it....
the "worth" to us is minimal...if its so well spent why are they still flooding in here from africa and other places we throw it away to ?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Last year's budget was a massive £343million worth of taxpayers' cash, while taxpayers already have to stump up hundreds of millions a year for EU aid. ///

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/586776/Foreign-aid-taxpayer-cash-wasted-TV-game-show-tropical-fish-Britain-Osborne-Cameron

/// There are exceptions to the latest spending restrictions. The health service, schools and now defence are rightly protected. Bizarrely, however, overseas aid also remains sacrosanct, the needs of policing in the Congo given higher priority than policing in Cardiff, Carlisle and Coventry. Amid rising concern that so much of this cash is misspent, Mr Osborne has launched a review, briefing that he wants to prove the current £12bn aid bill provides value for money. Rather unfortunately for him, this precisely matches the sum he wants to remove from welfare spending. ///

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11756594/Britain-should-stop-wasting-money-on-foreign-aid.html