THE BIG CHARITY SCAM COSTING CHILDREN'S LIVES
So, my bank has been targeting me with ads lately, putting pressure on me to donate to one of their chosen charities.
The company I work for does a lot for charity already, so I don't feel particularly bad about ignoring them, however as Christmas draws closer the bank have taken to absolutely bombarding me. E-mails, texts, WhatsApp messages, splash pages while I log in to check if I can afford to keep my kids warm next week, it's got a bit relentless.
I thought, maybe if I throw a quid or 2 their way they will leave me alone, so let's have a look what charities are available to me.
Their first choice chosen charity is supporting the LGBTQIA+ community - 160,000 people have already donated.
Their second choice is Save The Children, 20,000 people have already donated.
Those numbers bothered me a little bit.
It was not made clear to me what exactly the LGBTQIA+ charity did with the money that was donated to them, so I went and did a bit of research.
The charity itself described it's activities as funding and organising events, marches and rallies promoting LGBTQIA+ awareness.
They throw parties. They throw parties which as a straight male man, I'm not invited to, so no, I'm not going to give them any money.
What really bothers me here though, is the 160,000 people who already have donated to this charity that throws parties, and the 20,000 who donated to Save The Children.
Save The Children spend the money donated to them in an attempt to ensure every child in the world has access to shelter, clean water, and food.
It's a bloody good cause, but 8 times more people have donated their money to the LGBTQIA+ party fund.
That's just wrong.
Call me homophobic, transphobic, whateverphobic you like - I don't care, I have the moral high ground, and at no point in this piece have I suggested anything bad should happen to anyone.
While there are children starving in the world, donating money to anyone for the purposes of throwing a party is not right, it's wrong.
This particular organisation is one of a great many pop up charities run by wealthy business men to line their own pocket, taking money away from causes that really need it.