SO NOW YOU KNOW WHERE THE OVERSEAS AID BUDGET IS GOING!

His yacht will cost nearly three times what his country spends on health and education for its impoverished citizens each year.

But Teodorin Obiang is the son of a dictator and the chances are that such considerations won’t unduly trouble him.

He has commissioned a $380million (£233million) super yacht, with cinema, restaurant, bar and swimming pool, it was revealed yesterday.

Because Obiang earns $6,799 (£4,184) a month as agriculture minister of the tiny, oil-rich West African state of Equatorial Guinea, questions are being asked about quite how he could afford the 390ft yacht.

So now you know where you International Aid Budget is going.  As well as going to countries like India, who have space programmes and more nuclear weapons than we have, £13 BILLION, will be going in Aid by 2013.

No one says that people in this country are impoverished like they are in the third world, but we have people sleeping in the streets and pensioners dying of cold every winter.  Maybe a better way of spending the money, would be teaching them about contraception and giving out contraceptive pills and condoms to stop them having huge families that they or their country can't afford.

Who said, "charity begins at home"?

ARMED FORCES WILL HAVE TO RELY ON ALLIES TO FIGHT FOREIGN WARS

Britain’s Armed Forces face inevitable cuts that will leave the country “dependent” on allies to fight future conflicts, ministers are to admit.

The country can no longer afford to fund current operations in Afghanistan and all the equipment now on order for the Armed Forces, a Ministry of Defence green paper will make clear.  Dark Lochnagar has seen a copy of the paper, which will be published on Wednesday.  The stark admission from Bob, the knob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, will undermine Gordon Brown’s attempts to claim Labour is committed to big defence projects like the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers and the new fighters to fly from them.

And that's the way it should be.  The armed forces are costing £700 for every citizen of the U.K. and I believe IT IS TIME our so called E.U. and NATO 'partners' bore more of the brunt.  If Latvia and Estonia and all the rest of them can't send TROOPS TO FIGHT then they should be PAYING FOR OURS. 

If the idea of the EU was to stop major European wars, which so far it has, (but many of us believe the HUN WILL TRY AGAIN), then it's time we had a properly funded, equipped and manned European Army to fight in Afghanistan, albeit under British commanders.  Furthermore, why do we need NUCLEAR ARMS when the FRENCH AND THE AMERICANS have BETTER ONES THAN OURS?