JOY HOWELL: Last year our government broke their election manifesto and cut UK foreign aid from 0.7% to 0.5%, that's a difference of £4 billion. I am HEARTBROKEN at the thought of how many people around the world will die because of this; listening to some of the MPs and government defending this decision is actually making me feel physically sick.
I've heard the argument that in this "unprecedented" covid crisis we should be looking after our own first. I agree that the level of poverty in the UK is unacceptable (we've needed a footballer to fight for food for our own hungry children) but I have seen no evidence that this £4 billion is being used to overcome this problem. I have, on the other hand, heard of friends of Gov members being given multi million £ deals!
I fully agree with what Joy has written. The government has broken the very law that they themselves passed under a previous leader and PM, David Cameron. The government breaks its own laws AND gives the military and warfare increases above inflation. Promoting and boosting WMD and warfare is now 2% of GNP, while giving food, shelter and clothing to the impoverished of the world is reduced to an even more miserly 0.5%. This, from the 6th richest nation out of nearly 200 and where the rich should be paying much more in taxes to help the poor - in line with 2 Corinthians 8 v 13-15 (the economic basis of the Kingdom of God).
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