[joeysteele]

Shasown,I have held the view we should give aid to other Countries and honour all existing pledges of aid. However this point is a good and strong one now because as you say we seem to be giving aid to economies that are doing better and in some cases much better than the UKs.

Also if, and I stress if, we really are in as bad a state as we are told we are as a Nation then I think its here that aid should stay.
So I have come around to the view now that if we are in as bad a state as is said then all aid programmes should be reviewed and cut or stopped altogether.
Since the aid given to other Nations is increasing rather than decreasing that leaves me suspicious that things are as bad as we are told they are in the UK .