In the last few days, the Guardian published an article about the increasing number of people over the age of 60 who are seeking help for homelessness. According to the paper, housing charities have seen cases of this demographic “developing health problems from being forced to sleep in their car for months, having to sleep on camp beds in emergency shelters and seeking homelessness support even while suffering illnesses such as cancer".
Is it any wonder this is the case, given the UK's terrible rates of housebuilding paired with decades of record-high immigration? It’d be extraordinary not to have a housing crisis in these conditions. What makes matters even worse, though, is the amount of taxpayer funding helping the international community move here.
For the new year, I decided to take a look at how much money we are currently giving to asylum-seeker and migrant charities (which often help with housing services), and was astonished by the colossal sums – adding to the many examples I have already found. I’m afraid this list (below) is just a small sample (the term 'migrant' brings up 435 charities on the Charity Commission website), but it gives you a very good idea of our Government’s priorities. Forget 'charity begins at home'; the UK still continues to put the whole world first.
Asylum Welcome (£2.9 million, 2021-25)
Asylum Welcome “offers information, advice and practical support to asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants living in Oxfordshire”, helping new arrivals
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The government should not be involved in giving tax funds to charities. That is politicians putting their hands in our pockets to support their preferred charities. Charities should only get their funds from public donations.
Hopefully if this type of information gets in to the mainstream more and more people will wake up to the charidee industry. As I have posted many times…
Donations to charidees are nothing more than a form of secondary taxation of the gullible.
Highly relevant highly recommended. Comments to the article are also good.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-183451834
This chap’s insistence on not using capitals renders him unreadable so I won’t be bothering.
Total agreement. I’ve never read any of his texts because they’re written in a language I’m not familiar with and don’t want to learn.
Again, I refer back to my comment about the Somali children’s centre scandal in the USA and other fraud around the world by migrant organisations. I said then, if America, Australia and others are being scammed, how much are we losing? This is excellent work again by Charlotte and shows again that we have lost our minds, being ripped off left, right and centre, so like idiots, we can’t even claim we are being defrauded, we’re just pouring money into bottomless pits. I would love to know, from the millions being spent, how much is going out per head of each migrant. Finally, as I have also said, a charity that is funded by a Government, national or local, is not a charity, it is a Government department and part of the civil service and should be shut down immediately. Charities should be funded by benefactors and public fund raising not the tax payers. If I want to contribute it should be voluntary not mandatory via my taxation.
That’s an excellent point: What’s funded by the government should be regarded as part of the government as work done by such entities must be work the government wants to be done and it shouldn’t pseudo-privatize its own activities as this circumvents both political responsibilites and limits intentionally placed on what the government may do.
I’d say a lot of these examples *DO* fall into the category of ‘work the government wants done’… they want immigration to prop up the numbers and make the fake economy / money Ponzi scheme continue for as long as they can get away with it
That’s also my opinion: There are some things “government types” (especially, civil service types, probably) wants to get done but cannot really do in their official functions. Hence, they’re paying supposedly private entities to do it on their behalf.
Another example of that would be this “no white organizers” ‘punk¹’ festival which recently featured here. That’s something the government wants to exist. But since this would violate equality law, must not do as government.
100 %.
Charlotte Gill writes: “I’m afraid this list (below) is just a small sample (the term ‘migrant’ brings up 435 charities on the Charity Commission website), but it gives you a very good idea of our Government’s priorities. Forget ‘charity begins at home’; the UK still continues to put the whole world first.”
So, the millions listed above is just a tiny fraction. I would guess that the resources required to detail the finances of the others is not available to Charlotte.
There must be many people (on this site alone) who feel frustrated and helpless at what is happening to this country and the future the country is facing – but who would like to contribute in changing things for the better. I’m sure that many of those with time on their hands would welcome an opportunity to help out and do some of the further research to “audit” the remaining 429. It would be great if there was a pool of trusted volunteers that people like Charlotte (and others) could call on to help further their research.
As the French say, the ultimate problem is the pull factor. Most countries just shrug when someone claims asylum there, we lavish them with riches.
Keeping people out is very difficult, we want tourists, students and those on short visas. Anyone who overstays or claims asylum should get nothing from the state. Let charities and charitable lefties take care of them. The state should pay money only to transport them back to their home countries, or elsewhere.
De rigeur. How much of the money ends up in Somalia? Or, is recycled into Party coffers? Just asking, from Minnesota.
Another large saving for Reform. I am surprised their councils have not cut any grants they give to political “charities” in preference to (say) replacing traditional lamp posts in Kent.
“Open the borders, refugees welcome”——I think there were 750,000 people added to our numbers last year. How many people do these imbeciles think can live safely and comfortably in these Islands? —-80 million? 100 million? 120 million? —HOW MANY?
I ask this question too. And the proponents of mad mass unlimited immigration always refuse to answer.
A data point: The German Empire of 1914 had about 2.2 times the size of the United Kingdom of today but only about 87% of its population. It was considered a highly industrialized and very densely populated country¹.
¹ Germany today is about 1½ times the size of the UK and has abour 1.21 times its population, making it intensely overpopulated for the standards of 100 years ago. Yet, German establishment politicians favour immigration even more than British ones.
This Immigration free for all started in the EU. Germany being the most powerful and most influential. —–You are a German, so what motivates Germans to do this? Is it post war guilt? Surely not as the Germans were doing great and were the envy of the world for decades after the war.——Or is it as I think, that the EU is the dummy run for global government and global government does not care where all the people live as they want to govern them all anyway. But it helps the global government agenda if National Identities, culture and traditions are destroyed so we all just feel like good little global citizens.—————————————Gute Kleine Weltburger.
This immigration free for all did not start in the EU. It started in the UK when Tony Blair chose not to follow most countries in continental Europe wrt freedom of movement for the new EU members from the former Eastern block. The idea was that these would be excluded from freedom of movement until their local standards of living had come closer to EU niveau in order to avoid mass emigration from fairly poor countries to fairly rich countries. Blair cooked up some pretext for not doing that. The remaining old EU countries did it instead.
In Germany, this didn’t happen until 2015 when Merkel unconditionally opened the borders for so-called Syrian refugees. Immigration into the UK has not been reduced but turbo-charged since it left the EU because the policy of the UK government is still “the more, the merrier”, it just prefers Indians and Pakistanis over Europeans. That’s not what the Brex-vote said on the tin. But the plan wasn’t exactly cleverly camouflaged, either: Controlling immigration means being able to chose who’s allowed to come and not necessarily reducing immigration.
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The mental gymnastics required by some of these people is nothing short of flabbergasting.
The extent of the rot and corruption is truly staggering, almost insurmountable. It’s bleak, the funding needs to stop.
A top priority for a Reform Government must be turning off the taxpayer tap which is funding this abuse of the British people.
^^^this^^^
Wins the Internet Truth Today prize. imo, Britain needs a Musk-style DOGE, and a deep Review of: the Charity Commision, Charitable status, and a subsequent Bonfire of the not Charities. e.g. ‘think tanks.’
The madleft’s hatred for the native peoples of our country is now on open display. As is the Establishment’s death-wish.
Thanks once more to the author and to DS for publishing this.
Can Lord Young get this into the MSM through his contacts?
Great research and it would be interesting to see the ethnicity and pay of the folks running these organisations.
And political activism.
Under which administration were these set up and first funded.
I wonder if they even follow basic principles like they are required to be reviewed regularly and re-approved through a clear accountable process – ie they fail ‘stopped’… vs continue until someone notices, likely for years in some cases
We’re being forced to watch our wife being raped and our children tortured whilst they plunder our land and cash. It really is that simple.
Talk about suicidal empathy – truly I see no hope.
We’re absolutely stuffed.
These pieces are incredibly powerful, have you tried to get them shared by outlets like GB news or Talk TV – a daily 5 minute piece, I am sure that at present too few people are aware of this egregious waste.
Until the wider public are up in arms this stuff will carry on.