As I said a while back, "... under the Lib-Cons fakeprivatecompanies and industry-lobby-groups-masquerading-as-charities ('ILGMACs') will take the place of the much loved fakecharities in setting the agenda (i.e. dictating 'regulation and legislation') and/or directing how taxpayers' money is to be spent."
Adam Collyer describes the machinations of a specific ILGMAC here. Worth reading in full.
Saturday, 16 July 2011
FakeCharities under the Lib-Cons
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Are we talking about such things as '(Insert Town) Partnership' type-deals here? There seems to be a growing wish to put various council-funded things under this rubric.
P, it depends on who funds it.
There are
a) True taxpayer funded bureaucracies which serve only themselves,
b) Taxpayer funded fakecharities which 'raise awareness of issues' so that when the government then does what it was going to do all along, it can pretend that there is popular support for it.
c) Industry funded lobby groups, and
d) Fake private companies which get all their income from the taxpayer (windmills, 'back to work' providers, legal services, advertising companies etc).
I suppose they all overlap to some extent and there may be other categories as well.
Very interesting link - I wondered what that story was all about. Had my suspicions but thought I was being too cynical. Ah well - another lesson learned.
Thanks for the link.
I'm afraid that I have never found myself to have been over-cynical about politicians!
It's like the metamorphosis of a virus.
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