Rumour has it that the coffers of the nation are empty, and that severe cuts are being made in order to keep the bailiff's dogs from the door.
Our glorious leader has ditched The Ark Royal...
and got rid of the Harriers...
and caused the closure of all but one of Manchester's public toilets...
He's allowed Uni fees to become huge...
his petrol price concession was negated by a pump-price increase...
and yet he has "found" 650 million quid...
of our money...
and he's not giving it back...
he's giving it away!
Moreover, he's giving it away overseas!
What the fuck???
Is this man totally mad?
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373478/David-Cameron-Pakistan-650m-spend-education.html
Edit: Somebody at The Daily Mail could do with having some of this dosh to put towards maths lessons - how many NQTs start on £2,600?
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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Ach, look at it in perspective - it's small change compared to the £4 billion we can apparently afford to lend Portugal.
Indeed, but to be clear about this we won't be giving it to the Portuguese, we'll be giving it to the ECB in Germany.
That £4 billion... is it £4 thousand million or £4 million million?
Not that it matters anyway - according to the top brass we don't have two ha'pennies to rub together.
"...we'll be giving it to the ECB in Germany."
Well at least that's something - we can always rely on the banks to do the right thing with our money.