[Kizzy]

'Why you want to remove aid entirely to one and use that money to go towards solving some issues partially for the other is beyond me.'

Because they live a long long way away plus they are a different *religion * creed * colour to us ( delete where appropriate).
It sickens me that the choice to wave our bloodstained flag rather than face our ongoing issues surrounding exploitation and conflict is the most jaw droppingly pig headed response to this issue.

Did cameron not buy himself a private jet while we were sending all this aid we could ill afford? While we were up to our tits in 'austerity' reeling from a worldwide recession ? While kids slept rough in the uk and families relied on food banks to eat?

It's laughable to suggest that this is why the choice for many is heat or eat, if we gave no international aid there would still be the casting adrift of undesirables... that is the conservative laissez-faire way, sink or swim, no safety net.

How many (illegal) wars and conflicts have we embroiled ourselves in over our recent history, how much devastation have they caused? How did the costs of these conflicts impact on us financially?

If we give more it's because we took more, and we're STILL taking!