It is nice to know that while we all face cuts

[Sly,Duck]

Extra money has been found to help the poor people on this planet

http://www.dailymail....ease-37.html?ITO=1490

[ummmm]

Stoke...you can't compare the floods with people dying of starvation.

[ummmm]

Regardless of the rights and wrongs Doc the floods, where the majority effected were insured, cannot be compared to starvation.

[anotheoldgit]

This about says it all.

http://tinyurl.com/35d3yez

[I.Don No]

If the governments in the countries that we send financial aid to cannot look after their citizens themselves maybe they could cut back on their own public expenditure ie army, bombs etc

I would gladly have my tax pounds spent to help countries who cannot help themselves once we have sorted out our own backyard.

[sp1814]

Well done the coalition government for ringfencing foreign aid.

Just shows that you don't have to be left-leaning to have common sense and a good heart.

A good story indeed.

[anotheoldgit]

Just another 'sweetener' by Cameron, to keep the Lib-Dems happy.

[IggyB]

probably was the lib dems influence - good wasn't it!