Rejected petition Stop spending £12 billion every year on foreign aid - spend it on our own people

Our own people are suffering; many are living in poverty.Our NHS is at the point of collapse.Our own country's infrastructure is crumbling. Every service is starved of funds.Yet £12 billion a year is sent abroad; £250 million a week.Spend it in Britain, on our own people.This is just commonsense.

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Source: re: British poverty - The Poverty and Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom Report conducted by Bristol University in 2014 - a study of 14,559 people - this was the largest survey of its kind ever conducted in the United Kingdom.

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Date submitted 5 March 2017
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