With a minister, and working out of the Cabinet Office, the Third Sector is used to distribute tax-raised money to Labour soft-power networks throughout the country, with a particularly marked presence in Labour's heartlands and target areas. Presented as working in charitable and voluntary sectors it often takes over funding and regulatory facilitating that should be passing through local councils, democratically elected and answerable to local people. It also extends regime tendrils into areas that are not the concern of any reasonable governance, which is why originally provision was voluntary and charitable.
The Independent reports that a children's charity providing breakfast and after-school clubs for children whose parents need assistance with child care had donated £15,000 to Labour, half directly to political funds and half to enjoy a Party sports dinner at Wembley where opportunities for 'networking' within Labour were available (and lots of troughing too). The 'charity', benefiting from local authority funds, lottery funding and charity regulation, is exemplary of Third Sector thinking and acting.
Greg Clark, the Tories' spokesman on charities, said: "It beggars belief that Labour should accept money from a lottery-funded charity that surely needs all the money it can get to fund its clubs for disadvantaged schoolchildren. Labour should have known that it was wrong to accept this donation... It is well known that Labour have staggering levels of debt and are scrabbling round for money to stay afloat. But after the cash-for-honours investigation, Peter Hain's resignation and the David Abrahams scandal, taking money from children's charities strikes a new low in Labour's donations history.
A Labour Party spokesman said: "The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the Labour Party did nothing wrong in accepting this donation, which is allowed under party funding rules... We accepted this donation in good faith, but once Catz Club were told that they had inadvertently breached Charity Commission rules, we were asked to return the donation, something we were happy to do."
A spokeswoman for the charity, which receives funding from some local authorities for its work, said: "It was an administrative error that has now been corrected and the Labour Party have now repaid all the money. The situation is resolved and has been closed."
So taking money from a children's breakfast and after school club can be done 'in good faith', after all the Labour regime gave it some of the money in the first place, just taking their tithe. And 'an administrative error', handing over £7,000 for dinner, and another such sum to a political party fund, has been corrected, resolved, closed.
Has anybody been required to pay for their own dinner, demoted, dismissed?
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This is so sickening. You have to watch these gastropods like a hawk.
Blimey. There should be a regular MSM column in all good newspapers to expose this sort of thing.
It'll be Winter Relief next. And one pot dinners with savings to neighbourhood Party funds, overseen by the block superintendant who checks our bins. Wouldn't like to be seen as 'unhelpful' or inappropriately attituded, would we? After all, these are good people doing good things and don't need a democratic vote test.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2694220/Government-paid-charity-to-produce-eco-town-fact-leaflets.html
My word verification reads as "ferklgerbert". Say it aloud. Again. Then treasure it.
Oh and this too, not re charities, rather the end product of the past 11 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2689996/Children-aged-eight-enlisted-as-council-snoopers.html
Mr Sackerson said a naughty word! I have a much better word, also beginning with B, but quite rightly you would not permit it to appear in a family blog.
It's not that the family can't do words, Nomad. But Guido's does them better. Effing and blinding needs a certain regularity to have effect, cf wonderful usage by members of British Army (interspersed between parts of words,as well as preceding and following them), and some fine writing by Anthony Burgess.
Obviously I can't cut and paste, E because it always says nothing found.
But if it's children being recruited to spy on neighbours and family - then we know where we have got to.
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