Foreign aid fiasco

IN response to the comment about foreign aid going into India’s space programme (letters), in addition it has spent £352 million on a huge bronze statue in Gujarat and £218 billion on gold over ten years.

the country spends 2.5 per cent of its GDP on its military — mostly russian weapons — but only 1.2 per cent on health and 5 per cent on the education of its children.

Why are we sending aid to India, China, North korea and Iran when we can’t fund elderly care and pressing social needs in this country? It’s an obscene waste of taxpayers’ money and must stop.

D. & J. FAIRMAN, Longwell Green, Bristol.