Our kids need this cash, not foreign coffers

I get where this is coming from, honestly. Seeing kids I know struggling because the system's stretched to breaking point makes you want to pull up the drawbridge sometimes. My mum’s still on the estate and the ‘support’ she gets is a joke. But cutting off aid isn't the answer, is it? It feels a bit like saying we can’t help our own neighbours because we’re too busy looking after our own street – but what if our street is next door?

The real problem isn't that we're giving some money away, it's that we're not putting enough into our own services in the first place. It's the same with my job. We’re drowning in paperwork, waiting lists are insane, and we're constantly relying on expensive agency staff because the proper jobs aren't funded well enough to keep people. We need to fix that here, properly fund social care, schools, the NHS, so we’re not just patching things up with sticking plasters.