Sunder Katwala of the Fabians:
The Taxpayers\’ Alliance may just be a pressure group, but it aspires to represent all UK taxpayers and speak in their name. It is very keen on accountability, so why won\’t it reveal who its donors are? I am sure there is nothing to hide, so why refuse reveal all donors over the value of, say, £5,000?
So, err, I thought I\’d see how the Fabian Society lists its income.
Clearly my Google JuJu isn\’t all that good for I cannot find anything detailing accounts, donations, annual reports……
Anyone know where they actually are?
The Fabian Society
11 Dartmouth Street
London SW1H 9BN
020 7227 4917
[email protected]
Under “about” on their site!
Would be interesting to find out who funds them though!
Yes indeed ,another one I would like to see some transparency on is Compass. The Guardians Public Sector appointments bung is interesting and the whole financing of the Labour Party why not ?
It claims to speak for anyone who works but it is financed by the 20% who are unionised and in the Public Sector
Sunder Katwla will make a good politician it is already obvious that he tailors his remarks to his presumed audience , sometimes he is quite reasonable but this is pure Labour Party PR
Overall I rather like him
Ok, let me shatter the mystery for you guys and gals, the Fabian Society is in fact funded by a secret international brotherhood of public sector workers and left wing industrialists dedicated to the cause of creating a single international socialist superstate. Despite appearances to the contrary Sunder Katwala is in fact the evil mastermind pulling the strings.
Deep in our underground volcanic lair, we are working on a mind control serum that we will be introducing into the water supply that will eliminate all traces of libertarian thought. Tim, you have been marked as a guinea pig for our experiment and soon your blog shall no doubt become a hotbed of socialist thought.
Hope that clears things up for you.
Tim adds: No, I know this is wrong. Because you don’t have an underground lair. You’re above the sandwich shop 20 yards down the street from the Taxpayer’s Alliance.
“Despite appearances to the contrary Sunder Katwala is in fact the evil mastermind…”
Pretty sure he’s no mastermind. Not so sure about the other thing though.. 😉
Sunder reveals all in the comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/taxpayers-alliance?commentid=92c8f8fb-db0f-421c-9dcc-09fe2b307aee
…but apart from that complete transparency, they’re an *evil*, *shadowy* organisation.
Thanks to Rumbold for sharing that link to my response on the CIF site.
However, the offices may be above the coffee shop in Dartmouth Street, but they do also contain an underground lair.
A windowless basement seminar room “The Cole Room” named after GDH and Margaret Cole. They may have been bottom-up decentralising types much praised these days by Richard Reeves and Phil Collins. But that just shows you can never let your guard down. if you would hide the children’s ears, I warn you, they were Socialists too.
So the more you look into it, the more sinister it becomes, which is why increasing numbers of people now seem to think that the frenetic publishing, debating at events and seminars, blogging is just a distraction and a front.
I thought the secret was out that I do essentially control not just the Brown government but the Obama administration too. Critics will say both show that no plan entirely survives contact with the enemy.
I say, Fabians, we shall prevail!
“I thought the secret was out that I do essentially control not just the Brown government but the Obama administration too.”
So evil it is, then.