Rupert Lowe MP
"If you’ve served our country, you shouldn’t have to beg for basic help - what an insult it is for tens of thousands of veterans.
We need a world-class veteran support system - this could be entirely funded through diverting a fraction of foreign aid.
That means…
A real veteran care service inside the NHS - guaranteed fast-track treatment and mental health support. Proper ring fenced housing priority funds for veterans in every local authority. A robust employment fund to retrain and reintegrate those leaving the forces (including a comprehensive scheme to help veterans into police/immigration enforcement field roles).
We can ensure that not a single veteran is living on the streets.
A fraction of the foreign aid budget would pay for all of it. Easily, over and over.
No more financing for Kenyan gender lectures or Bangladeshi shrimp farms - use those funds to create a best in class veteran support network.
Before anyone asks, I've put my money where my mouth is. I donated my entire net MP salary this month to the Poppy Appeal in Great Yarmouth. Actions over words.
I’ve officially put this proposal to the Prime Minister.
It feels like something the entire country could get behind."
FYI.
As the world's third-largest aid donor, Britain spent 14.1 billion pounds in Official Development Assistance in 2024
For the third year running, Britain spent the biggest portion of its aid budget on supporting asylum seekers at home, according to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
About 2.8 billion pounds - a fifth of the aid budget for 2024 - was spent on hosting asylum seekers, mostly in hotels.

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