Time to divert overseas aid budget to NHS to build new hospitals

AS we all know by now, we in this great country are in the midst of a devastating pandemic, which is threatening our very existence, both individually and nationally.

Boris Johnson’s fiscal generosity will be of enormous assistance to both workers and businesses, but the cost will be huge and the effect on our national debt will be incalcuable and will be a heavy burden on our people for generations to come.

We are desperately short of hospital beds, and despite the heroic efforts of our admirable NHS staff, it looks as though thousands of desperately ill patients will finish up being cared for in temporary field hospitals.

It is, therefore, extremely ironic that whilst British citizens are in this parlous state, our Government is giving away to foreign nations gargantuan sums of money, £14bn per year, every year, called Overseas Development Aid.

I do not know how your readers feel about this profligate waste of our money but, personally, I believe that charity begins at home and we should, first and foremost, look after the needs of our own citizens.

Fourteen billion pounds spent on foreign aid would provide the UK and its long suffering NHS with 28 hospitals at a cost of £500m each.