If you want to call it that.
But that is just what a purely factual description of life in Britain now is.
What else are charities supposed to say? What, exactly?
The last time that Oxfam was subjected to this kind of treatment (by the same people) was because it was opposed to apartheid South Africa.
Of course, it's not a factual description of life in Britain. And therefore it is propaganda.
ReplyDeleteThe amazing thing is that 50% of its funding-50%-comes from the very same Government it is launching a political propaganda campaign against.
These 'charities' are no longer charities.
They're taxpayer-funded lobbyists.
Nobody every asked the British taxpayer if we wanted to pay for a group of lobbyists disguised as a charity.
Yes, these are purely factual.
ReplyDeleteThis is what Britain now is, and the only attempts to dispute that are your kind of comically hysterical screed.
Time for bed.
The 'charities-as-state- propaganda-front-groups" and left-wing lobbyists isn't a new development.
ReplyDeleteAs I'm absolutely sure Max Hastings knows.
It apparently began when Labour vastly increased state funding of charities after 1997 to turn them into 'independent' Labour lobbyists (always the most effective kind of lobbyist).
27,000 charities are now dependent on the government for more than 75 per cent of their income and the ‘voluntary sector’ receives more money from the state than it receives in voluntary donations.
Between 1997 and 2005, the combined income of Britain’s charities nearly doubled, from £19.8 billion to £37.9 billion, with the biggest growth coming in grants and contracts from government departments.
The EU's famous "Green 10" charities (funded by the EU Commission) lobby-surprise surprise-for EU environmental regulations.
The NSPCC and Oxfam have form here too; after receiving EU Commission grants in 2005, they came out in support of the EU Constitution.
The NSPCC later had to apologise.
Labour then used its state-funded sock-puppet charities to lobby for the 2010 Equality Act, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and the smoking ban.
When charities are funded by the state-or the EU-they become an arm of the state.
It's so obvious I can't believe we didn't see it coming.
The charities New Labour began funding know who their political chum are.
Time for bed.
ReplyDeleteWhat is "purely factual"?
ReplyDeleteThat the economy has finally recovered from Labour's 2008 recession.
That certainly is.
The rest is comically hysterical (sadly largely taxpayer funded) propaganda.
There was no recession on the day of the last General Election, nearly two years after the Crash.
ReplyDeleteAny need to recover since then has been caused by the Coalition. Repeatedly, in fact.
And no one in the electorate at large believes that there is a recovery at all. They all think that there is still a recession, and that there has been one continuously under Cameron and Osborne.
They will think that until there is a Labour Government, and they will remember it like that forever thereafter.
That happened in 1992-1997. It is happening again now.
Illiterate.
ReplyDeleteThe economy was much smaller in 2010 than it was before the crash in 2008.
It has only recovered to its pre-2008 level now.
Thanks to so called "austerity".
Based on last night, I dare you to try and tell them that in King's Lynn. Not Consett. King's Lynn.
ReplyDeletePeople do not "think there is a recession".
ReplyDeleteThe huge growth is driven- partly-by a rise in consumer spending...driven by rising consumer confidence.
You don't know anything about this subject. It's embarrassing.
Bless.
ReplyDeleteLet's just wait for the votes to come in, shall we?
After their last effort and now this, the voters now regard "Tory Government" and "recession" as synonymous terms.
And they, being the voters, are the ones with the votes.
Bless.