How Left-Wing Activists are Recycled
In recent times, people have started to ask questions about the never-ending stream of far Left protests in the UK. Such as, who is funding them, and how do they have such a constant influx of activists? There’s been particular interest in the activist group Stand Up to Racism, which appears constantly available to stage counter-protests whenever there are demonstrations against migrant hotels in the UK (say, in Epping).
In my view, most of these activist groups could be described as ‘Momentum 2.0’, as they often lead back to its registered address, a far-Left cooperative named Pelican House. Cooperatives – a meeting place for groups with the same political views – are typically how the Left organises. I’m sure Leftists will have plenty of reasons to justify their mode of campaigning and its proud history, but for anyone on the outside it’s highly confusing to keep up with. I would go so far as to say that their coordination at the cooperative is secretive (certainly given the number of accounts that block me on social media, such as Green New Deal Rising, also registered to Pelican House).
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It’s a hobby and a job; giving the useless moron involved some sense of personal worth.
Deluded sense of personal worth.
Defund all NGOs and rigorous ensure charities may not fund politics.
who pays these people? there are plenty of them on protests during the working week, when most of us work. I wonder are we paying for their lifestyle choices through the benefits system? Perhaps some research can be done into it.
There’s footage of these twisted, hate-filled freaks at the UTK rally chanting: ”Where’s your Charlie gone? Charlie’s in a box!” at the patriots, because anything to goad and get a rise, right? Meanwhile, I can’t believe there’s still people getting sent to prison because of the unrest from last August. This poor guy was not violent and also just chanted words including: ”Who the f*** is Allah?”, but the judge still sent him down for 30 months. If only he’d shouted ”Who the f*** is Jesus?” or been found to have child sex abuse images on his phone all of this could’ve been avoided; ”A ‘bullish’ man chanted ‘who the f**k is Allah’ as he played an ‘active role’ in a city centre riot. Nathan Poole, 32, was one of 300 people involved in a disorder in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, on August 3, 2024. Following the unrest, Poole has now been jailed for 30 months. Judge Richard McConaghy found Poole had displayed ‘hostility towards Islam’ and told the defendant: “The protest took place in and around Town Road and it descended into violence. “You were abusive and argumentative with police officers while others were throwing missiles over their heads. “It is… Read more »
Judge McConaghy opines that the question about Allah is hostile, he would not I presume opine that the SUR slurs ‘get these fascists off the streets’ is hostile? This is a political trial about speech. What is the answer to the question ‘Who is Allah’, since that entity utterly transcends human knowing, according to that religion?
Hostility towards Islam is a crime then?
So gaoled for not committing a crime but because a Far Left judge decides he should be.
Yes, exactly.
I have a full time job. The bills need to be paid and, quite frankly, I just don’t have the time to spend my days at demonstrations.
So what do these “activists” live on?
Do they get a regular income from “activism”?
Agreed it would be easy for the police to unmask these folk and I am sure they will reveal teachers, medics and social workers possibly on a ‘sick’ day who should face repercussions.
The taxpayer shouldn’t be funding any of these organisations … or many other “charities” which are pushing left wing propaganda.
I’m a National Trust member. The NT has been taken over by woke fanatics. They don’t indulge in political activity per se but they are political in their approach to what they are doing internally. I don’t think they should be receiving assistance from the taxpayer in the form of tax breaks. Rather than a committee dedicated to judging whether a charity is political, which wouldn’t work anyway, let’s abolish charitable status.
My initial reaction to this was ‘Hell no’, but after a few moments of thought, I like the idea.
Sure, the ‘Gift Aid’ scheme gets charities the tax back from people’s donations but at enormous bureaucratic expense. Far better to tax us less and maybe we’ll donate more of our tax-paid income. Maybe the HMRC administrators could find something useful to do.
The massively rich charitable ‘foundations’ reflect the priorities of their trustees and not necessarily those of the original donor’s. Just as much as any other entity, tax the money when it moves.
The idea that UK taxes should be spent as charitable donations funding gay comic books in Peru (or whatever it was) is just plain nuts.
Indeed
I give to certain charities (many fewer than I used to before “COVID”) and am happy to do so. But I don’t think it’s right that others who don’t want to give to charity have to pay more tax to allow them special status.
My firm matches donations done through the payroll which I used to think was a good idea. It’s certainly preferable to the bosses selecting charities but it’s wrong to take money away from shareholders to give to charity (and we are an employee owned business).
I refuse to donate to charidees. When I realised it was a massive scam many years ago I simply stopped all donations. I have posted about this previously but just look up the incomes of the big outfits. Cancer Research has £750 million pa, the CEO is on about £250k and this has been going on for years. Still haven’t found cures for Cancer – another lie.
British Heart Foundation – ditto above. Pushed masks and jibby’s during the C1984.
Some local charities might warrant a bit of help occasionally but the big ones – they are mugging us of.
Yup I am very selective
I dumped many during “Covid” as they were all on board with the scam
My wife died from a secondary breast cancer and for years I paid in to these charities. Then I found out that with all the billions going in and the putated ‘breakthroughs’ thet once they went to the pharmaceutical com[anies they vanished without trace. There is virtually no change since 1996 when she first started the treatment. Now I go to the local cancer hospital in Cardiff and the local hospice and make donations directly. The only one I occasionally give to is MacMillan which trains nurses and gives money out in cases of hardship. I won’t even buy a poppy anymore and I am ex-forces.
That’s the way to do it. Once the RNLI built itself a big new headquarters, a relative of mine used to donate directly to the local lifeboat station.
“BHF receives donations from pharmaceutical companies” under the excuse of research. I would welcome a piece by an investigative journalist on the workings of this “charity” and its presence in every single NHS and private medical establishment (impressive salaries of board members is easy to discover, but a thorough search by a journalist would expose links not available at Charity Commission or Companies House).
Big charities are corporations now – as you say, exec team on multi £100k salaries, multi-million pound adverts on prime time tv and online / press… charity starts at home, or damn close to home at least
You need to be a member of Restore Trust then…
https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/
Thanks will look into that
I seem to have chosen most of the same candidates for the council as the ones they recommend – I read all their biographies and chose the ones not spouting woke platitudes
I am sure I am teaching you to suck eggs, TOF, but I hope you (and anyone else reading this), has voted for the Restore Trust candidates and not used the wretched block vote option that the NT use to protect themselves.
This year as last year I read all the candidate blurbs and chose the non woke ones- of which there were very few
I sure hope Tesla Takedown UK from that list isn’t getting any public funds.
The funny thing is that the doomsday scenario rhetoric in that clip is pretty much the same as it is now, and has been for years. I wouldn’t think anything was unusual if I heard a leftist claim people are disappearing without trace. It’s really quite tame compared to the planet boiling and genocide.
And being sent down for 30 months for a ‘bit of pushing and chanting’….
The judge’s sentence was a criminal act.
The scenario rhetoric actually outlines the future we face if we do nothing.
We are slowly winning as I noticed the heaps of professionally printed posters which exposed the professional teams behind the various groups have now been replaced with ‘homemade’ posters. However, on looking at these homemade posters they all had similar handwriting.
So they do take note of what Charlotte and others are finding out.
A vision…
Teams of barely literate lefties all being taught how to “colour / write” a protest placard by some teachers who have wangled early retirement on health grounds. 😀😀
Thanks to the brilliant Charlotte Gill. To have this mob of extreme lefties identified for ordinary people to understand and exposed is a deep public service.
Karishma Patel…
Has Karishma got any charisma…?
By the way, when her desire is fulfilled and Islam takes over, she won’t be able to go around like that. Totally haram to dress like that.
Patel seems to refuse a lot of things that she cant have any influence on, like sleepwalking
The most important bit of journalism in the history of the west would be to make the funding of these organisations transparent to the world. Western Civilization is being destroyed, by NGOs and Vested interest groups with solid and actual funding. Hopefully recent events in the US will do some work towards showing who the real culprits are. I think someone is behind Soros … although he’s a malicious actor, I believe nation states are behind this.
The one thing consistent about the hard-left, they couldn’t lie straight in bed. They just lie and lie to the media, and to each other, worse still they believe it!
Their invocation of the ‘disappeared’ myth is just sick, but who said any politician extremist of any stripe are sane? It is irrational in the extreme to make up a dystopian reality and not just force people to believe in it, but to try and create it.
Pelican house appears to be the ultimate echo chamber for the delusional. It certainly isn’t operating for the benefit of others. Quite the opposite.