It is reported that the government plans to increase its foreign aid budget by a staggering 35% to countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Burma, where international aid officials concede that fraud and corruption have been endemic for years.
It is plainly the case that these regimes persistently channel the generous bounty of our government into the private coffers of a few. Little, if ever, actually reaches and succours the starving on the front line.
Yet back home a legal aid budget which is tiny in comparison with these billions is being savagely cut back and thousands will consequently be denied access to justice in this country.
Where is the justice in that?
David Kirwan, (Former Wirral borough councillor), Kirwans Solicitors, Liverpool
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