Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the Government should stop giving aid to countries like Argentina [BBC]
Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the Chancellor should find savings by stopping aid that goes to countries who "don't need it". Mr Nuttall was speaking during a debate on the BBC show about Mr Osborne's recently announced plans to cut the welfare bill by £12 billion in the two years after the 2015 election.
Mr Nuttall said: "The welfare budget under Labour spiralled out of control, it could not go on and something had to be done.
"However there is another budget which is ringfenced which comes to around £12bn, it is called the foreign aid budget.
"I am not against giving money to countries who are in dire need, people who need to be fed. But what I am against is giving money to countries like Argentina and Brazil.
"I believe the way you should pay for these cuts is by going to the foreign aid budget and taking money off countries who don't need it because quite frankly that's your tax and it should be spent on our own people." Express.
"However there is another budget which is ringfenced which comes to around £12bn, it is called the foreign aid budget.
"I am not against giving money to countries who are in dire need, people who need to be fed. But what I am against is giving money to countries like Argentina and Brazil.
"I believe the way you should pay for these cuts is by going to the foreign aid budget and taking money off countries who don't need it because quite frankly that's your tax and it should be spent on our own people." Express.
