Why are we funding the Reparations Lobby?
I asked myself this question today while watching Dr Parth Patel, from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), on Politics Live. He endorsed the idea that the UK should pay reparations for slavery:
Maybe like as an offspring of Empire, I have a completely different view⌠which is, the Prime Minister understands the concept of a bad inheritance better than most people. Fourteen years of Tory rule, when weâve inherited a country in bad condition. Tell you whoâs had a worse inheritance; the countries we used to colonise.
The question for him appeared not to be âshould we pay reparationsâ but what quantity (which Brits shouldnât dictate because they are evil, obviously):
And itâs worth listening to them, I think, before we say âIâm going to give you this kind of reparation and not that kind of reparationââŚ.
You can watch the whole thing here.
IPPR ally
Yesterday Danny Sriskandarajah, the CEO of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) - which funds the IPPR, made similar arguments on Question Time. I wrote about him ahead of the episode, as I was astonished to discover that the NEF received ÂŁ564,360 in taxpayer funding between 2019-23.
New Economics Foundation and The Green New Deal
In todayâs instalment of Eco Emergency I will introduce you to the New Economics Foundation (NEF) whose CEO Danny Sriskandarajah, also the author of Power to the People, a manifesto to inspire citizen action, is to appear on BBC Question Time this evening.
Taxpayers also fund the IPPR (ÂŁ389,250 between 2018-22). The NEF and IPPR are both âcharitiesâ, you see (you know, those things that constantly lobby governments).
Together it means that weâve paid ÂŁ953,610 for âcharitiesâ that want us to pay reparations, bearing in mind we donât even have their 2024 funding figures yet.
Perhaps the NEF and IPPR could refund this taxpayer-funded money - to get started on the first step of reparations?
But then we wouldnât have experts in âthe sway of underpowered communities over the course of public policy, the contours of social democracy in the 21st century and policies to reduce health inequality.â Fascinating!
Both of these institutions are VERY left-wing, churning out papers and endless statements on why we need more electric cars/ wealth taxes/ basically anything that makes us all poorer while promoting the public sector.
So itâs not really surprising that giving away even more of our income is their latest advice.
BUT WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR IT?!
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What can one say? The patient has a death wish and will only listen to people who give him/her more ways to die. Death by a thousand "charities", NGOs, and civil service departments. And they are proliferating. First they kill free speech. Later they will kill you through servitude.