2 Billion pounds for Syrian aid given by David Cameron.

[paulpablo]

They haven't -actually- cut them back on account of any aid to Syria...and there's no reason that they would be necessarily cut back by an increase in foreign aid spending.  There are plenty of people who would like to control the narrative so that people read it that way though, if nothing else it absolves them of their own responsibility in the cutbacks..and it probably covers for a whole hell of alot of incompetence and grift.   This thread is about syrian aid..............so of course we're talking refugees and syria?  They can't be ignored, in context.

I do think that the NHS could buckle up, if it were squeezed by actual rather than imposed constraints, yes.  I think it can buckle up when It's squeezed by imposed constraints as well.  The saying you closed with seems spot on.  If there was some situation where a choice had to be made between medical services and foreign aid (where one invariably and inescapably affected the other)..it's time to put on the hard wood shoes and -still- send the money to help.

yes we're talking about Syrian aid but the convo went like this.

You said it's a choice between possibly straighter teeth and humanitarian aid.

I said it's not that simple there are already cutbacks and it's blamed for causing death, I wasn't focusing on refugees at this point, just the overly optimistic and simplistic view of the NHS.

Then you pulled back the topic to the main thread topic by saying something like that not being the fault of giving aid to Syria.

I know what you're opinion is regarding Syrian refugees but what I'm saying is you shouldn't come to that conclusion by viewing it as a choice between the UK having straighter teeth and giving humanitarian aid to Syria because that isn't the choice.