It would be better if we brought the entire foreign aid budget home, and spent it at very least on those foreigners already fled to Britain, on the massive benefits bill we’ve chosen to have for these people we’re continuing to take in, and dare I say - to pay the wages of those who’ve managed to get a job over here in our NHS as well. Everyone’s a winner - IF we repatriated that money.
If our own country is out-of-order post-empire, as it is, then the very last thing we should be doing as a country - is getting involved in anywhere near as many “projects abroad” as we do, against our will the vast majority of the time.
As I said earlier, - it would be better if the public got to pick and choose which charities to donate to out of their own pocket. Why “give again” out of tax revenues and borrowings for the nation as a whole when a lot of us have “already given at the office” eh?
At the very least, “Socialism” should concentrate on those people from any background that are actually physically present in Britain - before worrying about other nation’s citizens in faraway lands, be they wanting to come to Britain at any point in the future, or not.
“Disaster Relief”? Let’s fix the disaster that is this incompatible mix of idealogies, faiths, cultures, and politics in THIS country first po-leeze!