Submitted on Friday 3rd June 2016
Published on Wednesday 8th June 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 8th December 2016
Signatures: 86
Reduce Foreign Aid - divert to, Health, Police, Military, and Pensioners
Foreign aid 11 billion budget to increase by £1 billion (That is money the UK Government borrows to give away).The UK spends more than any other country and is the second largest aid donor in the world (The Telegraph) Despite in 2015 UK government debt amounted to £1.56 trillion(economicshelp.org)
In January, it emerged that civil servants had gone on a £1billion spending spree over eight weeks last year to hit the government target of allocating 0.7 per cent of national income to overseas aid.
BRITAIN's spending on foreign aid will be LARGER than the entire Home Office budget in each of the next five years - reaching a staggering £16BILLION, it was revealed. Pakistan who is a Nuclear Power and not so long ago bought a fleet of fighters off the USA get the highest amount 351 million.
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