Suella Braverman has said some charities are “politically motivated activists masquerading as humanitarians”, after a damning report into “misconduct” at one of the main voluntary groups opposing her Rwanda deportation flights.
Shelter
Friends of the Earth
Needs we go on?
indeed…. “Some”? How about “most”…
The Tories love talking about problems they have no intention of solving.
Didn’t someone (DK? Longrider?) set up a searchable service for “fake charities” at one point?
This is possibly something else, but I had cause to try and find it recently. (And failed…)
DK
The definition of “fake” being that the charity receives a significant part of its income (30% or more IIRC) from the state.
I don’t think it covered privately funded “charities” that set out to try to undermine the democratic process or just fuck up the country.
fakecharities.org
No longer up, but remnants available via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131030173526/http://fakecharities.org/
This post took me all the way back to school. Some wag would impart to his peers what he thought was some juicy piece of gossip not being aware that everyone had already heard about it. He would then be told in jeering tones “tell us news not history”. I can still hear that jeering inflection, a mixture of mockery and contempt.
OT
BoM4 seems to have disappeared. No comments on here for some time and his Twitter account has been deleted. I hope he’s OK, he had lots of good insights that were always worth reading even if you disagreed.
I’m shocked, Shocked! I tell you.
Suella Braverman has said some charities are “politically motivated activists masquerading as humanitarians”
Absolutely true and Gov’t, EU fund most of them with taxpayer money
@BiND
BoM4 has been killed by Khan’s ULEZ expansion
I swapped emails with him on Weds…….so he was fine then….
Western Bloke seems to have the same writing style, I just assumed he’d changed alias.