Stonewall’s £1.25m from the taxpayer: Charity is still receiving public money after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss questioned its value
Stonewall’s £1.25m from the taxpayer: Charity is still receiving public money after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss questioned its value
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> Duncan Simpson, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Taxpayers are fed up with public bodies giving ever more grants to controversial campaigners.
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> After years of handing over millions, some officials seem determined to prop up pressure groups like Stonewall with taxpayers’ cash, despite ministers urging against it. Ministers must put a stop to these grants.’
Taxpayers should also be fed up with Think Tanks like the [Taxpayers’ Alliance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxPayers%27_Alliance) which is literally a pressure group propped up by dodgy money, dodgy connections and the occasional page 3 girl.
> The TPA was given the lowest possible grade for financial transparency by Who Funds You, a British project that seeks to rate and promote transparency of funding sources of think tanks
> In 2009, the TaxPayers’ Alliance was mentioned 29 times by The Guardian, was quoted in 517 Daily Mail articles, 317 times in The Sun – including once by a shirtless model on Page Three.
> The group was founded by political strategist Matthew Elliott, who founded Eurosceptic think tank Business for Britain as well as Conservative Friends of Russia, Big Brother Watch and the NOtoAV campaign during the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum. In 2015, Elliot was appointed chief executive of the Vote Leave campaign to promote a British withdrawal from the European Union.
I tend not to be guided by Liz Truss when it comes to value for money, not a subject recent events would lead me to believe she is expert in.