Charities Today

It has been reported by several others that many charities, especially the big nationwide ones, were transformed during the Labour years into primarily government-funded lobbying agencies that, in themselves, no longer (if they ever did) provide any useful service to the community. Much is dressed up to look that way, but it is often just a thin veneer, camouflaging their their new true nature which is frequently a purely political one.

Even long-established charities have been encouraged, manipulated or possibly even coerced into becoming part of the Communist-style "everything is part of the State" structure that was well on the way to completion prior to the recent General Election.

In a typically thorough and well put together piece of "raccoontage", Anna Raccoon lifts the lid on one such case, this one shortly to operate within the parliamentary estate itself. This example demonstrates how clever political manipulation can compromise the principles of even the best-intentioned charities. The organisation it features can obviously never be trusted again.

Indeed, on discovering just how much the national charities have been undermined and twisted by the former Labour government, I have withdrawn all my support from those I formerly sponsored in any way. They now employ people to ring up past and present supporters for more money, and I tell them that I no longer support such outfits. I have had two such calls this month alone, so they are becoming pests as well (no-one decent cold-calls anyone, ever).

I gather there is quite a widespread fall-off of support anyway, partly caused by the economic situation and its effects on people; but it goes a lot further and wider than just that. People are asking just what these outfits actually do. Shelter, for example, has always been just an "awareness organisation", doing absolutely nothing itself to deal with the plight of any homeless person. We are now waking up to the realisation that many (if not most) others have become no better themselves during recent years, as their websites tend to show if one looks behind the obvious spin.

The only way the "third sector" will ever regain public trust is via a complete reform. It will need new outfits to be created, taking no-one from the present tainted organisations, and with something so clear-cut in their constitutions that will demonstrate their literally uncompromising approach. Although this will hurt, it is now absolutely essential that no tax money is ever to be given to any charity, regardless of the circumstances. That will eliminate much of the lobbying side of such outfits; and the rest will have to go as well.

Charities are intended to be on-the-ground aid agencies of one form or another, raising their own funds through donations. Any that does anything else, even as part of its activities, should not hold charitable status. Perhaps that was once acceptable; but through the actions of those who went along with Labour's agenda for their sector, it no longer is.

As always, remember whom to blame for any negative impact such a change would have: yes, it was Labour and those who were complicit in Labour's manipulations of their sector.