Sorry Al I do not buy into this conspiracy that everything is to do with Tory cuts, This story is about one or two bad eggs who have been exposed for what they are albeit at a time of someone else’s choosing. I certainly do not believe that it is the Governments sole intention to cut aid budgets for the sake of it.
What people always fail to mention when blaming one party or another is that someone has to pay and that person is you and me, we put politicians in place to watch and safeguard spending not to fritter it away. The only answer to austerity is to raise taxes and to make it more palatable to do it for the wealthy ( definition required) ultimately if things become too unattractive to them they will simply up sticks and go leaving the many to pick up the tab, meanwhile we will all want above inflation pay rises to give us greater spending power and suddenly inflation goes off the Richter scale and we all no what happens next. It seems to me that we are all guilty of making life difficult for ourselves be that through our abuse of free healthcare or our lack of productivity, Perhaps what we need now is a Labour Government to remind us of exactly how socialism works , who knows perhaps they can buck the trend and make it happen for everyone, somehow I doubt it!