Re: Generousity Has No Bounds
I guess it's called posing on the world stage! Every British Prime Minister wants to be seen as a Saint to the rest of the world. Each one has to be better than any other leader, and of course, be seen to be taking firm action in giving more aid than any other leader.
It's so easy of course giving away billions of pounds of our taxpayer money. It doesn't seem to matter what the cost to our own needy. Sod them. Social care? kick it into the long grass for the next leader to sort out, The vulnerable? defer to a later date, i.e. when I've served my leadership and been awarded sainthood immortal. When people hear my name, it will be a case of "My goodness, that man/woman was a saint! forever thinking of the needy overseas, and so generous with aid. I wish we had more like him/her.
They just want the badge of honour. They cannot even fathom that that amount of money would solve almost all the basic needs such as care, that our own are having to do without. They just don't care. Why? because it is not public or grandstanding enough for every idiot we have had running our government.
Maybe if we let them know more and more and showed them what we thought by teaching them a lesson at the ballot box, they might take a bit more notice of the many, many voices protesting at the injustice of it all.
In the meantime, I won't hold my breath that they will do the right thing, cut the overseas aid by half and use what is, after all, our taxes, to look after our own first instead of looking for sainthood from the rest of the world.