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Big Lottery Fund
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One third of all the money recently allocated by the Big Lottery Fund, £700,000, has gone to asylum campaigners. This brings the total to £1.3 million given to these organisations this year.
Now I've nothing against helping the unfortunate, its a Christian duty to help those less fortunate than ourselves but have we got the balance right, I think not.
Now I've nothing against helping the unfortunate, its a Christian duty to help those less fortunate than ourselves but have we got the balance right, I think not.
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Prat.
Now there's some balance for ya. :rolleyes:
Scum are people who kick to death OAP'S just for the fun of it, or who throw things at hearses, smashing their windows, whilst they're on their way to a cemetary, or go into cemeteries and desecrate graves including those of children. They are scum
Hope this clarifies the position.
And there is a big underclass of people like this are there?
Oh, and have you a source for your story by any chance?
Would certainly stop these mass amounts going to left-wing civil liberties groups and asylum seekers, we should be looking after our own people first before those.
And 'left-wing civil liberties' groups, they arent British are they?
Which orifice did you suck these figures out of?
According to the Sunday Times, the BIG lottery fund distributes £600m per year to good causes - £1.3m looks like a very small percentage of that......
'Our income will come from the same streams of funding currently available to the Community Fund and New Opportunities Fund: the sale of Lottery tickets. Combined, this is 50 percent of the proceeds for good causes, which we anticipate will be between £600 and £700 million a year until 2009.'
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/about/index.htm
So if your talking about 1.3million that would be what,
1.3 / 650 x 100 = 0.22% of all funding.
So the Big Lottery fund has so far given far out less than 1% to asylum capaigners.
Exactly, we should look after our own, rather than splashing money on these sponges.
I've got a great deal of respect for the Samaritans, in fact I was thinking of becoming one.
You'd do well helping the 'scum' I think.
I imagine a fair number would indeed go ahead and top themselves after a 5 minute chat with RK.
If you wish to join such an organisation (which as a compassionate, open minded universally loving Christian such as yourself might enjoy), you do realise you could be dealing with drug addicts, rapists, ex convicts and the like as well as the poor unfortunate victims of this 'scum'. You also realise that people would not appreciate being condescended down the phone, or preached the Bible?
I don't see why helping people is a bad thing... At the end of the day why shouldn't we help out assylum seekers? Why do we take everything for granted? The roofs over our heads, the fact we have internet access and a greater deal of freedom of speech... The fact we can vote and not get shot, protest and that we have warmth, food and don't live in constant fear?*
Why shouldn't these people be allowed help? Did they choose to be born in the country they're from? Did they choose not to be white middle class male Christians? Is it because we're afraid that they'll take our jobs?
*Just to note that this doesn't apply to everybody... A lot of people do live in fear in the UK, yet the situation is different than in, for example... Sudan.
Examples?
they dont give it to varies charities because they should
they give it because they can
Let the people speak, introduce an element of democracy into the process, then we'll see real causes that deserve support being supported instead of snubbed.
Like who, who are these left wing civil liberties groups?
Bonga, do you support the principle of introducing democracy into the choosing the organisations that should receive funds. Are you in favour of letting the people speak? Thats all we need to know.
Now if we're going to play "tennis", Jim the mod will not be happy. This is my last posting on this.