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  As we are constantly reminded by politicians to tighten our belts as cuts to our services bite hard you may wish to learn that the UK spent or should I say wasted £1.4 billion on overseas 'useless' aid they included:
  
  Funding for Belgians to give dance lessons in Burkina Faso despite half the population living on 70p a day.
  
  An £8.8million centre in Mali to help people get legal jobs in the EU - which found work for only six people in three years.
  
  A medical centre in Sierra Leone which was largely unused and had hundreds of hospital beds donated by the UN left outside to rot.
  
  The report also claimed huge sums had gone straight into the coffers of governments whose record on human rights has been internationally condemned.
  
  They include Malawi which recently drafted a law to criminalise flatulence in public places, restrict media freedom and punish homosexuals with up to 14 years hard labour. Its president bought a multi-million pound presidential jet after a transfer of EU aid although more than 60 per cent of the people live on less than £1 a day.
  
  It makes one despair about our elected representatives and what they use for brains or common sense.

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