Let charity begin at home

I used to work in the Higher Education Division of the Department for Education when the proposal to introduce top up fees was first mooted. At that time the fees were very nominal. Now they have escalated to their present level.
One wonders why the government pays out £9 billion a year from our tax money to undeserving countries who carry a chip on their shoulders against us? This money could be put to better use at home to alleviate poverty in poorer areas here or to reduce the tax burden on hard working British people or to provide free university education.
£9 billion is a huge sum of money to be dished out when that could be used to raise the pensions of old age people who have to struggle to pay for food or to pay out the ever increasing utility bills.
An old aged pensioner gets a weekly allowance of £106 bearing in mind he has paid his income tax and national insurance contributions whereas immigrants and refugees who have paid no income tax and national insurance contribution receive a weekly allowance of £250.00. Why this anomaly? If we want to be generous, let the charity begin at home!
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford