If aid goes first to the leaders of a country and then a little bit of it gets down to those who are actually suffering under a country's oppressive social and political systems, then I say add all the string you want to that aid. But if that aid goes directly to helping social and economic development projects (e.g. Oxfam projects) then the UK is simply hurting the poverty stricken while the rich elite who run these developing countries (and make the laws) remain untouched by withheld aid, and indeed they can even strenghten their position by telling their people the UK is abandoning them.
Aid is such a dirty often corrupting business which too frequently hurts those it's meant to help.
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