Tim Worstall

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• 1 DocBud // Jan 20, 2013 at 2:38 pm

  Oxfam is not on an anti-poverty crusade, it is on an anti-wealth crusade, if the poor are collateral damage then so be it. It long since ceased to be a charity for the poor and became an activist organisation with a political agenda.

• 2 ReefKnot // Jan 20, 2013 at 3:08 pm

  Oxfam should stick to famine relief – which is what it is supposed to do. Instead, it has become a campaigning and lobbying organisation with a strident left-wing agenda. Wouldn’t be suprised to find out it was a ‘Fake Charity’ receiving significant taxpayer funding – virtually every other charity is, except for the real ones who do real charitable work, like the Salvation Army or Air Ambulance who have to rely on public donations. I listened to Oxfam’s Head on TV over Christmas – he is quite clearly a left-wing activist politician who never mentioned famine relief once. The Government should investigate how it is that the left have infiltrated and twisted the Charitable sector.

• 3 Ian Bennett // Jan 20, 2013 at 3:31 pm

  Oxfam is, indeed, a fake charity; 26% of its income comes from various tax-funded sources.

• 4 MellorSJ // Jan 20, 2013 at 3:45 pm

  Someone’s gotta say it.

  Won’t someone please think of the feckin’ children?”

  In this case, poor, starving little feckers.

• 5 David Moore // Jan 20, 2013 at 4:57 pm

  ReefKnot
  “Oxfam should stick to famine relief – which is what it is supposed to do. Instead, it has become a campaigning and lobbying organisation with a strident left-wing agenda.”

  This seems to be happening across the board though, Amnesty, RSPCA, even Greenpeace seem to be chasing the campaigning on more and more ‘left’ wing causes rather than what there orginal intent was. Amnesty seems to have been completely subverted by an Anti-American agenda.

• 6 Matthew L // Jan 20, 2013 at 7:30 pm

  The Government should investigate how it is that the left have infiltrated and twisted the Charitable sector.</blockquote

  What a statist suggestion. A better solution is to publicise it and let individuals make up their own minds.

• 7 The Meissen Bison // Jan 20, 2013 at 8:05 pm

  What a statist suggestion. A better solution is to publicise it and let individuals make up their own minds

  If as Ian Bennett says at #3, 26% of Oxfam’s funding comes from the state, a ‘statist suggestion’ seems to be called for.

• 8 Philip Scott Thomas // Jan 20, 2013 at 8:12 pm

  And Mr. Snowdon shoes…

  Are we channeling Ed Sullivan here?

• 9 Matthew L // Jan 20, 2013 at 8:19 pm

  If as Ian Bennett says at #3, 26% of Oxfam’s funding comes from the state, a ‘statist suggestion’ seems to be called for.

  So cut their state funding. An ideological witch hunt as suggested by ReefKnot seems a thoroughly illiberal overreaction

• 10 Martin Davies // Jan 20, 2013 at 10:16 pm

  And let the state provide whatever service its currently paying for?
  With no charitable subsidy to government.

• 11 The Meissen Bison // Jan 20, 2013 at 10:48 pm

  So cut their state funding

  Absolutely agree – apologies for my misconstruction.

• 12 Emil // Jan 21, 2013 at 9:20 am

  “And let the state provide whatever service its currently paying for?”

  You mean the leftist campaigning?

• 13 presentation in london // Jan 22, 2013 at 10:48 pm

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