A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED

According to the Metro; this month, as winter grips, we have people in Cumbria and Wiltshire walking up to 20 miles to receive food parcels, and throughout the rest of the country, thousands of people are in danger of dying of hypothermia.

Meanwhile, on jetting in to the United Nations climate change talks in Qatar, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary made a pledge to fund £2 billion of foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia.

The UK’s package of support is believed to include almost £100 million to help to subsidise renewable energy in Africa, such as electricity produced from wind and solar farms and around £15 million to help cattle farmers practise ‘low carbon agriculture’ in Colombia and £14 million will help build wind farms and other renewables in Uganda.

How on earth can politicians think it right to send billions in aid to countries far afield and yet we cannot look after our own people in winter time!

It’s a national disgrace that today in Great Britain we have tens of thousands of starving people deprived of basic human needs; the British public are being taxed to the hilt; we have hundreds of families facing a bleak winter because their homes have been flooded; there are millions of people taking ‘payday loans’ to pay for Christmas; we have food banks, huge youth unemployment and thousands of hard working parents and pensioners who can’t afford to pay their bills, heat their homes and adequately feed their families, yet our Government, who must be being led by Muppets, can still find the resources to fund any number ‘climate’ ventures throughout the world.

There is no way in this day and age, in Great Britain that anybody should die because they cannot afford to heat their home or eat sufficient foods to keep them healthy or warm.

The first priority of any Government should be the safety of its citizens; borrowing money so that politicians can go posturing on the world stage, announcing overseas vanity projects, should be amongst the lowest priorities for Government spending in the current financial climate.

There were 24,000 deaths linked to cold weather last winter! Just think how many might have survived if that money had been used to reduce their domestic fuel bills or invested in better care?

Heating and Lighting should not be treated a luxury in the 21st Century! The Gas suppliers, the Electric companies and this inept bunch of incompetent, self-serving, politically correct parasites who purport to govern our once Great Britain, should hang their heads in shame.

Yes, as the proverb says: A fool and his money are soon parted, but the problem here is that they are spending our money, not their own!