I'm sick of seeing my tax money being thrown away on foreign aid to countries that don't even like us. It's like we're being taken for fools, with billions of pounds being squandered on projects that never seem to achieve anything. I've worked hard all my life, building up my own business from scratch, and it galls me to see my earnings being handed over to bureaucrats who just seem to waste it.
I'd change the whole system, starting with a complete review of where our aid money is going and what it's actually achieving. We need to stop propping up corrupt regimes and focus on helping people who really need it, like refugees or disaster victims. And we should be doing it in a way that promotes British interests, not just throwing cash at any old project that sounds good. I've heard stories about aid money being diverted into the pockets of local officials, and it's just disgusting.
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We should absolutely be redirecting funds to where they're most needed, perhaps focusing on specific, verifiable projects rather than broad programmes where the money can easily disappear. I’ve read about aid being spent on things like building roads in countries that then charge us to use them – that hardly seems like good value.