A MULTITUDE of charity bags keeps coming through my letter-box, many – if not all – in aid of very worthy causes.

Yet our politicians keep squandering our money abroad in aid. Is it not time they considered their own country?

With high unemployment rates, essential services cut and the nation held to ransom over gas and oil, they should get England back on its feet first – then let’s see what help we can give to others.

A Sedgwick, Lyndhurst Avenue, Blackburn.