Well, Nigel, giving more aid than other EU countries (I'll do my homework on that if I can be arsed),
No need to be 'arsed'. I've given the link Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Scandinavian Countries may give more than us, the rest give less. or not, equally has nothing to do with aligning ourselves with the EU. The funny thing about you leavers is that you've swallowed the Daily Mail sucker message hook, line and sinker I don't read the Mail, so I can't have "swallowed their line". that we have our laws and rules imposed on us by some remote foreign power in Brussels. Understandable that Iains falls for it, as it's all he seems to read, but I'm very, very disappointed in you, Nigel. One more time, let me remind you of our transaction with the EU. One percent of our GDP is committed to the EU. Ninety-seven percent of our EU-related laws have been enthusiastically agreed to by us "Enthusiastically agreed"? even if agreed, that statement would suggest that we were pushing for the acceptance of these laws. Source please?, and they can only be imposed by an elected body, and we play a major and influential part in drawing them up. The EU cannot dictate our foreign aid budget. We are a sovereign nation and we make up our own rules on foreign aid, and lots more besides. We are at odds with the EU on very little. Give me a list and I'll trump you a hundred times over. The attacks on Oxfam, coming from your party alone apart from gutter tabloids, are compromising the good work that charities overwhelmingly carry out. They feed into the burgeoning anti-aid narrative coming from the xenophobes on your side. And the brexiteer narrative has reset the agenda in a terrible way in this regard. Your party, you brexiteers and your benighted compatriots already have a lot to answer for, and, if you get your way, you are going to add to the burden of misery on this planet. It's that serious, Nigel. Cop yourself on.