Good to remember that charity begins at home

I HAVE seen numerous letters in the Examiner complaining about cuts to various services, the effect of cuts on our lives and the people who are to blame.

The answer is simple! £13 billion per annum is sent abroad in foreign aid. Successive governments in this country have put the interests of people abroad before the needs of our own people.

Does anyone reading this letter know where the £13 billion given away last year has gone? Or what this handout has achieved?

I am sure that you can all identify where it could be better used in this country.

The old saying that charity begins at home has now been replaced by the politically correct slogan that charity is all we have at home, because our money is being given away.

According to your correspondent the referendum result should stand for all time. The people voted and that must be respected, and all politicians have no idea what real people are like.

If the first point is to be accepted then the referendum result 40 years ago to join the EU must still be valid!

While I agree that a majority of MPs have only a limited grasp of the real world and the implications of their actions, we can and do have the opportunity to dump them in elections. What is so special about a referendum result that makes it only sometimes sacrosanct? If a decision is demonstrably wrong then we should have the right to change it! It’s called democracy!

I would have thought that the new Health Secretary’s announcement that the NHS should start stockpiling drugs, isotopes and other medical supplies in the event of a no deal Brexit might cause some concerns.

Or maybe the new Brexit secretary suggesting that some departments were considering stockpiling food might worry some. “Scaremongering” bleat the Brexiteers as they lead us over the cliff. Of course the new Brexit secretary Dominic Raab is an ardent leaver so who is he trying to scare?

I wouldn’t trust this government to clean my windows so entrusting them with my future and that of my children and grandchildren fills me with real fear. Let the people speak again.