I said last week that ‘the UK now donates a smaller percentage of turnover to the Third World than we do”. “What do you mean?”, I was asked, “Are you no longer part of the UK?”
Well, the overseas aid budget is to be cut from three farthings to a halfpenny (kids etc.) in the £. When I tot up what I thought was the rather pathetic and inadequate amount that Philip James Financial Services Ltd. gives to the likes of Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children, turns out we’re more generous than the government. Which is, in its own way, rather pathetic.
