I appreciate that our Government spends money on Trident and other things some of the public do not approve of, but these things are factored into the Government spending.
However, to conjure up 50 million pounds to commemorate the death of millions people 70 years ago in another country, when the living in our country are suffering would seem to me to be a slap in the face to us from the Government's austerity measures.
I see on T.V. and in the Press every day about people struggling with a partner who has alzheimer's and getting no help. Elderly people who cannot afford heating or food. People who need drugs to prolong their lives being denied them, because there is no money.
So where did this 50 million come from? I know the Government have emergency funds for disasters around the world and I can perfectly understand this and this money is well spend. The question is, do we really need a new Monument for the Holocaust?
I would just add, I had,in the past, when I lived in Liverpool many Jewish friends and currently have Jewish friends, who are lovely people, this is nothing to do with being anti-semitic. It is to do with common sense.