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snowinberlin
snowinberlin Posts: 807
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inevitable but sad where the country is going, we should only save Brits, if it's Jonny Foreigner let them drown

https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/rnli-loses-donors-because-money-16923917

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  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    I give it 5 posts...
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Alot of big charities have such massive reserves that public donations are a pittance to revenues.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    *waits for the almost-inevitable "It's not the Royal International Lifeboat Institute.."*
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    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
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    RNLI are pulling a few foreigners out the English Channel.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    edited September 2019
    I doubt many of those frothing mouth twitter posters really gave to the organisation in the first place. 
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    What the feck is wrong with is country. We are really turning into an inward looking, spiteful, distrustful selfish, greedy and stupid nation. 
    Mr Farage has alot to answer for
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    I always knew there were many turds in Britain but at least until recently they kept most of their bile to themselves.
    Shame on them.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,847
    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.
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  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    I'm here for the virtue signalling.....
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Lincsaddick said:
    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.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Nice surge in donations! So people are nice after all https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/16/rnli-donations-surge-tory-criticism-work-overseas-lifeboat-charity
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    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
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Is there a dedicated international sea rescue charity?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616
    Covers all of Ireland.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    Waiting for report on how many of the seamen saved around our shores are actually British and asking if we should be wasting money saving foreigners.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Probably a whoosh but is saving foreigners wasting money?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    McBobbin said:
    Probably a whoosh but is saving foreigners wasting money?
    Obviously, to some people it is and just as obviously those people are wasting oxygen.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    McBobbin said:
    Probably a whoosh but is saving foreigners wasting money?
    Probably?????
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  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    edited September 2019
    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

  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,602
    guinnessaddick said:
    Covers all of Ireland.
    Yep, we have a station here in Baltimore.
    They put their lives on the line for all.
    Heroes, everyone of them.
  • Wilma
    Wilma Posts: 1,618
    The RNLI has posted a detailed response on it's website: https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2019/september/15/information-about-the-rnlis-international-work
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,047
    Wilma said:
    The RNLI has posted a detailed response on it's website: https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2019/september/15/information-about-the-rnlis-international-work
    Thanks for the link @Wilma

    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!
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    snowinberlin said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    What the feck is wrong with is country. We are really turning into an inward looking, spiteful, distrustful selfish, greedy and stupid nation. 
    Mr Farage has alot to answer for
    No he isn't.. Proof.... 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Non governmental.

    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.
    Image result for lifeboat day paper pin

    (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.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    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.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    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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