Foreign Aid Reduction Travesty

The Government announces on Tuesday that they are making the largest defence budget increase for 30 years, £17 billion, to take the UK's spending on defence to 2.2% of GDP which amounts to a spending of £50 billion annually, NATO members are asked to spend 2% of their GDP on defence.
The Government announces on Wednesday that due to financial constraints, they are cutting the Foreign Aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% which amounts to £10 billion to fight poverty, tackle climate change and improve global health.
That our Government is reducing the amount we pay to save lives around the world while increasing the amount on bombs, missiles and bullets to take lives, and to take it away from the people who have absolutely nothing to pay for it, is beyond obscene.
It was only a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson balked at £170m for free school meals in the Christmas holidays for English children, stating that the country just couldn't afford it with a £280 billion Coronavirus Bill to be settled.
They are also freezing pubic sector pay and quibbling about the extra £20 per week extra for Universal Credit which all plays well with the right wing voters and their rotten 'me first' attitude who have long sought, if not the abolition then at least a drastic reduction, in the amount Britain pays in Foreign Aid.  
Over 180 aid groups, two former prime ministers, Tony Blair and David Cameron, as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury and even the Government's aid watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, who have spoken out against the cut and some Conservative MP's are refusing to vote for it in the Commons, although with a large Government majority, there may not be enough of them to stop it passing.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has forecast that the economy will have contracted by more than 11% this year, the largest drop in 300 years and unemployment will surge by 2.6 million people by the middle of next year so i understand that we need to be frugal and the folly of Brexit is yet to land, but we are the 5th richest nation, kicking poor nations when they are being devastated by a pandemic and then boasting about it should make us all ashamed, even more if you support this travesty.