Charity Doesnt Begin At Home...

[bazwillrun]

Another classic example...Amazing how we always come up with tons of tosh at the click of a finger to chuck overseas..and thats on top of the billions we already throw away to foreign leaders, sorry meant foreign aid...

why isnt it taken out of the budget we already have...in theory at least, we may know exactly where and to what use it might be put...for once

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35488674

yet when it comes to our own, now thats another story.....

[Bigbad]

Although the story in your link doesn’t say so, it was actually stated on BBC this morning that the money would come out of the existing overseas development budget. (Or whatever they call it these days).

Should we have an overseas development budget? Well now, that’s a different question altogether.

[bazwillrun]

they didnt mention it on the BBC radio news either...as the current overseas budget rises each and every year, its pretty academic I suppose..it will just rise to cover any shortfall for syrian use...

[mushroom25]

who exactly is going to receive this money and administer it?

[anotheoldgit]

We are in the EU are we not, why do we have to make such donations independantly, why can't it all come out of a general EU fund?

[AliceTickband]

my guess would be that the money will end up in the hands of some fat-cat foreign politician who lives in a big house while his constituents have to make do with a shanty town or a tent!

[TTG]

The elite will get their cut in the form of meetings, project management fees, admin fees etc etc etc

Leaves about £4.90 for the "poor".

[DaisyNonna]

Perhaps it should

[jourdain2]

I must be terribly old-fashioned (not being facetious here) but I honestly believe that charity should begin at home. If our country is prosperous and all are cared-for and working then there would be much more to give away.

I, now, never give to big charities. I put cans and pasta into the box in the church to be distributed by someone who well knows who needs the food - and other local things.

I resent the government throwing money around - some of it is mine, out of a small pension which only just reaches taxable limits.