NOT THE TIMES NEWSPAPER

                     CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME

The Department for International Development's largesse

appears to know no bounds. The Government, not content
with diverting billions of borrowed money away from saving
the nation from impending bankruptcy, is allegedly now in
the business of electoral manipulation in Pakistan, redolent
of the corrupt political practices present in Great Britain
before the 1832 Reform Act. This is according to UK press

 reports on aid buying votes for Bhutto party.

The pensioner fearful of turning on the heating. The small

business struggling to survive the deepest recession for
a century. Taxpayers severely punished for the
recklessness of the last government. They look
at the annual contribution £450m of aid for Pakistan
scheduled for 2015 and wonder if this Conservative-led
Government inhabits a parallel universe.

Pakistan is a country with a growing nuclear arsenal.

two-thirds of politicians pay no taxes and the UK's
support for the Benazir Income Support Programme
will remove the incentive for tax reforms. Britain, on
the other hand, with a national debt equal to its annual

GDP, is sliding into insolvency on a quixotic mission to
save the poor with an annual contribution of £11.7bn in
foreign aid to regimes whose regimes have been shown
to be corrupt and undemocratic.