What can you get for £1m?

For a nation that should be justifiably proud of its overseas aid budget of £9.1bn this financial year, an additional £1m of aid to the people of Cumbria would appear to be rather miserly in comparison, to my reckoning just £3 per head.

I'd ask the Prime Minister to re-think our strategy in respect of this dreadful flood disaster and to cast his mind back to New Orleans 4 years ago. Citizens given woefully inadequate assistance by their own Government still evokes considerable anger. If there's one thing the British taxpayer would be happy to see extra money spent on, it's their fellow citizens who desperately need our help today and tomorrow.


nick