//A whole 0.7%! I am shocked to my marrowbone//
It 0.7% of turnover, barry. As you've probably realised by now (if you didn't know earlier) the UK does not make a "profit". It spends far more than it earns with the difference being made up by borrowing. Following this latest crisis that borrowing is set to soar enormously.
Imagine if you ran a sweet shop and you took £50,000 a year through your till. But the cost of stock, wages and bills etc. was £55,000. Would you be prepared to give £350 a year in overseas aid? Would you be prepared to service your overdraft and give borrowed money away?
The UK has more than £1tn in debts. The cost of serving that debt is greater than the defence and transport budgets combined. And that's before factoring in the huge cost of Covid. Do you really think it's fair to expect taxpayers to pay for even more debt so that money can be given away? The Overseas Aid budget legislation needs scrapping.