Rejected petition Scrap HS2 & Foreign Aid before even considering raising taxes
The UK is in a pandemic & financial crisis. We are £2tn in debt & yet we are borrowing money to pay for HS2 & the 0.7% Foreign Aid, they are unnecessary burdens on the taxpayer.
To consider raising taxes when these 2 obvious savings are allowed to continue is plain insanity.
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Cancelling HS2 & reducing foreign aid to just disaster support would save the UK approx £20bn / year. We cannot afford borrowing more money to pay for 'vanity projects' & foreign aid, when the UK finances are in this parlous state.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/311642
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