Dave and Aid

So that idiot Dave goes abroad and boasts about our policy on so-called "aid" to other countries. What he means by "aid" is actually money. The countries receiving it can't be trusted with it and it always ends up in the wrong hands. If they want tractors let us send them tractors. If they need a desalinisation plant, let us send them that. But anyway we cannot afford it. The money is needed at home because, as we keep on forgetting, Blair and Brown have made us bankrupt.  It is so much easier to go poncing about the world than staying at home to solve our own problems.  

When Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin wrote to each other they finished every letter with the word "bum".  What a delightful word it is. The Americans have found a different use for it  but they have debased it and the English know much better.  Bum.