We shouldn't just slash foreign aid, we should scrap it altogether. 50% is not enough - everything should go.
Then, if MPs want to approve specific projects? They should put their name to it. Solar panels in Pakistan or shrimp studies in Bangladesh? They should have the courage to personally sanction it.
Not delegating power to some nonsense department/quango, AGAIN. MPs should take responsibility for how taxpayer money is spent.
Let their constituents decide if that is a wise use of funds...
Is Britain really such a utopia where we can afford to splash millions and millions on green enterprises in India? A gender disinformation conference in Kenya? Mental health research in Colombia? Inclusion in the Congo?
Sorry - I just don't care. It's not our problem.
That British taxpayer money needs to be spent in Britain, on British people.
We're spending £133 million on aid in Pakistan this year.
WHY?! What are we getting for it? The honest answer?
Sod all.
We're borrowing money to hand it away. It is BONKERS.
Foreign aid was potentially once a noble idea, that has now been completely distorted out of any reality by virtue-signalling politicians who want to appear kind at their various cocktail parties.
WHO CARES.
Scrap the whole thing.
I say spend that money in Britain, on British people.