Does this make me a heartless cow?

Jesus. Are you really that stupid? You and the OP genuinely think that the "problems" (not being able to drive around for a week or so, or having to USE YOUR OWN MEMORY CARDS, the shock, the horror) people face in the UK are in any way comparable to being at risk of STARVING TO DEATH???

I didn't say they're comparable. But this is our country and our money. The man next door might not have a winter jacket, and my mum might have 2 but if I'm going to go christmas shopping it's my mum I'm going to get a new one.

I didn't say they're comparable. But this is our country and our money. The man next door might not have a winter jacket, and my mum might have 2 but if I'm going to go christmas shopping it's my mum I'm going to get a new one.

What if the guy next door was homeless and would die without the winter jacket? (Obviously farfetched but you get where its going)

Say (for the sake of argument) ALL jackets costed £10, and you only had a tenner... who would you buy it for?

Exactly...

You do think they are comparable, as shown by your completely irrelevant analogy. To make it actually analogous (what a daring concept): the man next door is starving to death. Your mum has lots of food in the fridge. Do you share your food with the man next door or go out to Marks and do another grocery shop for your mum, leaving the man to die?

I literally cannot believe that you consider your school's budget more important than lives at stake. People like you are hilarious. I bet you're also one of these people that thinks immigration is a problem in this country, and gets annoyed by Polish grocery stores, but would love to move to Spain one day, insist on speaking English to all the locals and complain if you couldn't buy your copy of Heat in English from an English-speaking shopkeeper.

Sigh. I suppose you didn't understand me then. I meant that we should fix our own problems out of some of the money we give abroad.

And how can you say I'm hilarious when you're assuming all this other stuff about me? No I'm not against immigration, close family members of mine are immigrants and I am also applying for citizenship elsewhere. And no, I don't speak to the locals of that country in English. I speak 4 languages.

Okay, that's a bad analogy, because to fully compare we'd have to say Britain has a jacket with holes and Haiti is homeless and has no jackets. I'm saying use a bit of that money to repair the holes in Britain's jacket and then help the rest of the world.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help Haiti at all, I'm saying we should invest a good bit of money we give to foreign aid into helping ourselves too.

Okay, that's a bad analogy, because to fully compare we'd have to say Britain has a jacket with holes and Haiti is homeless and has no jackets. I'm saying use a bit of that money to repair the holes in Britain's jacket and then help the rest of the world.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help Haiti at all, I'm saying we should invest a good bit of money we give to foreign aid into helping ourselves too.

That is also a terrible analogy.

A more accurate analogy would be:

Britain has a scratch on our bugatti veyron, while Haiti has no home, no clothes, no money, and will be unable to survive if it weren't for the kindness of strangers.

Please keep anon, I don't know if I've got the wrong end of the stick


So the recent earthquake in Haiti is really sad and it's awful that so many people died and many more left homeless... but should we, the United Kingdom, really be giving them money when there are so many problems we need to sort out here? When we are still coming out of a recession?

I'm sure the millions of pounds they've been given would be far more useful to our own economy, or the NHS. I don't like how people are so eager to give to people abroad but less so to UK charities.

If the UK got itself into some trouble, who would help us out? Haiti certainly wouldn't. Recently we were covered in snow and in desperate need of salt but there wasn't anyone bailing us out, so why do we feel the need to meddle in everything (Iraq...)?

That is also a terrible analogy.

A more accurate analogy would be:

Britain has a scratch on our bugatti veyron, while Haiti has no home, no clothes, no money, and will be unable to survive if it weren't for the kindness of strangers.

I can see your point! There always seems to be a "whip-round" for something! And it's NOT just poor countries, I distinctly recall people asking for money for victims of hurricane Katrine!

I think the problem is that Nick Griffin said something similar and the rule is that if Nick Griffin said it, it MUST be lies. Unfortunately in this case, pensioners WILL die in the winter (cos that's what old people do - die)

I'd be less concerned about 19million to Haiti and more concerned with Gordon Brown's "laptops for gypos" policy which will cost us more than £300 million.