Uk's foreign aid budget should deal with (like it says on the tin) overseas aid .. people who contribute to charities are quite entitled to stop contributing if they feel their money is being misspent .. I am sure that some Bangladeshi and African multi millionaires are quite capable of giving a few quid to their respective national life boat organisations if they are asked
Hmm - the article I read said about sending funds abroad whilst cutting their budget and reducing services in this country which has led to the outcry.
Uk's foreign aid budget should deal with (like it says on the tin) overseas aid .. people who contribute to charities are quite entitled to stop contributing if they feel their money is being misspent .. I am sure that some Bangladeshi and African multi millionaires are quite capable of giving a few quid to their respective national life boat organisations if they are asked
it's been in their annual reports for years that they do this. Bizarre storm in a teacup stuff.
Just caught up with this and bunged them something. Virtue signalling? If you like. I prefer "a massive finger to the Times and the Mail and those who blindly believe the bile those tarnished channels pump out"
The RNLI are one of the things that still make me proud to be British
With the ongoing issue down here re the small boats coming over it is repeated daily in the local press by the RNLI there mission is "saving lives at sea" --- no concern who or why they are in trouble. God bless them and their bravery.
If true that some of the is going to overseas charities that are NOT related to saving lives at sea then I don't understand why they would do it.That's it the story is true in the first place
If those so outraged took the time to read it, so long as they aren’t still spluttering over their cornflakes, they might actually get to understand what the RNLI are doing - sharing their expertise - and how it is funded - often by donors who have asked for specific projects to be helped.
Anyone who thinks that their original vision that they ‘should extend our views [of drowning prevention] from our own immediate coasts, to the most remote quarters of the globe, and to every neighbouring state’ doesn’t remain valid, really does need to look at themselves. You aren’t a pretty sight!
I remember lifeboat day once a year at school where a bit like poppy day we would put a penny or two in and get a (rather fragile) paper lifeboat and pin to put on our blazers.
(I don't know why this is called a military badge.)
On lifeboat day in school assembly we would sing this hymn:
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren's shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
And for some reason we all knew the story of Brave Grace Darling.
Even though we were in London there was an awareness of how tied Britain was to the sea, and the marine aspects of life in Greenwich, and Southwark including of course the Maritime Museum was something we saw as a normal part of British Society.
Those who object to lifeboats rescuing people need not contribute to this fine charity, they can gaze in the mirror and see what a complete tosser looks like instead.
I don't agree with those RNLI donors who are outraged by 2% going abroad, but they are entitled to not give money if they disagree with how it's being spent.
After all if I raised money to pay for a ward at my local hospital, and it went to one in Southampton instead I wouldn't be happy. I imagine most people give money to the RNLI to fund lifeboats saving lives in our seas, in the same way people give money to Oxfam to fund overseas aid and wouldn't want it spent in the UK.
Who is criticising them for not contributing? They are bring criticised (a) for having such parochial uncharitable xenophobic views and (b) the motivation for bothering telling the charity and (c) them thinking their view is of public interest.
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Shame on them.
The RNLI are one of the things that still make me proud to be British
If true that some of the is going to overseas charities that are NOT related to saving lives at sea then I don't understand why they would do it.That's it the story is true in the first place
They put their lives on the line for all.
Heroes, everyone of them.
If those so outraged took the time to read it, so long as they aren’t still spluttering over their cornflakes, they might actually get to understand what the RNLI are doing - sharing their expertise - and how it is funded - often by donors who have asked for specific projects to be helped.
Anyone who thinks that their original vision that they ‘should extend our views [of drowning prevention] from our own immediate coasts, to the most remote quarters of the globe, and to every neighbouring state’ doesn’t remain valid, really does need to look at themselves. You aren’t a pretty sight!
I remember lifeboat day once a year at school where a bit like poppy day we would put a penny or two in and get a (rather fragile) paper lifeboat and pin to put on our blazers.
(I don't know why this is called a military badge.)
On lifeboat day in school assembly we would sing this hymn:
And for some reason we all knew the story of Brave Grace Darling.
Even though we were in London there was an awareness of how tied Britain was to the sea, and the marine aspects of life in Greenwich, and Southwark including of course the Maritime Museum was something we saw as a normal part of British Society.
Those who object to lifeboats rescuing people need not contribute to this fine charity, they can gaze in the mirror and see what a complete tosser looks like instead.
After all if I raised money to pay for a ward at my local hospital, and it went to one in Southampton instead I wouldn't be happy. I imagine most people give money to the RNLI to fund lifeboats saving lives in our seas, in the same way people give money to Oxfam to fund overseas aid and wouldn't want it spent in the UK.
They are bring criticised (a) for having such parochial uncharitable xenophobic views and (b) the motivation for bothering telling the charity and (c) them thinking their view is of public interest.