Disabled children’s charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks

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1. Well they’ll just have to learn how to pull their socks up by their bootstraps and raise some more funds, then.

   Mission accomplished!

2. Looks like the owner is treating it like his personal piggy bank to reward his mates.

3. Well, that’s a bit weird. Someone should look into that.

4. They don’t appear to be breaking the law and it seems to be one person doing most of the donation. I don’t think there’s anything that can be done about this.

   I’d be more concerned if they were going round pubs shaking tins and getting money under false pretences.

5. Think tanks should be closed down, and those within forced to get real jobs, like welding, or bricklaying.

6. With the remaining 67% spent on education and administration.

7. Whilst the clear cause that links it here is Richard Smith (who is connected to various people of interest e.g. Baron Matthew Elliot of Micklefell) as I’ve said repeatedly the IEA is not in Tufton Street and it is 260m round the corner in Lord North Street and has been for sometime.

8. Pah, the link is to the “good law project,” an utterly discredited organisation led by a dangerous swivel eyed fanatic. I wouldn’t trust them to inform me about anything.

9. Think tanks are the worst thing humanity has ever created.

10. Dig deep enough and you’ll find funding from far right US organizations sponsored by Russia. This isn’t just the old boys club, this is dangerous treason aimed at disrupting and destroying Western democracies.

11. [Jesus wept](https://x.com/NewCultureForum/status/1794664444464594977)

    The state of this

12. Isn’t it fitting that a charity for people with special needs and developmental issues is funding the right wing?

13. This link shows the trustees are all from the “Smith” family. HR Smith is an aerospace company run by Richard Smith. Looks like they do nothing for disabled kids.

    [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1045229/trustees](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1045229/trustees)

14. This can be a sound strategy for a number of reasons. If you’re satisfied that there are left wing policies you want, paying right wing think tanks to devise disability friendly policies from a right wing perspective can alter their agenda.

    While disabled people might, on average, tend to prefer left wing policies, it’s better for them if the right wing party is up there arguing for zero tax on disability home improvements and tax deductible accessibility modifications for businesses than them not arguing that at all, so that if they win, at least it’s something. On the whole you’ll find this is fairy common with advocacy organizations which aren’t openly partisan.

    43% however is a suspiciously high number so this is probably not the case here. I’m just pointing out it isn’t unusual for advocacy groups to fund think tanks you’d ordinarily consider opposed to their interests.