tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post1629610822794433180..comments2023-09-28T13:28:52.243+01:00Comments on Raedwald: Give to charity, but don't buy from an OXFAM shopRaedwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-7209928382874318792018-02-24T18:16:32.483+00:002018-02-24T18:16:32.483+00:00It's not just about Haiti, Oxfam's priorit...It's not just about Haiti, Oxfam's priorities are warped. Their staff have been waving Oxfam banners at demonstrations advocating the import of people from agrarian economies into the UK, with the vast welfare costs that entails. It's always at other people's expense too; these staff would never dream of putting their own money towards this. Meanwhile, in the sub-Saharan African country that I know best, good luck getting a sickle cell diagnosis for a child, let alone any screening for prospective parents to reduce the incidence of this horrible disease. Mass screening could be done at a cost of the order of £1 per head but it's just not happening any time soon, because the likes of Oxfam UK care far more about "equality" and throwing sand into the wheels of capitalism in their home countries than they care about the poor. If you care about the poor, support some smaller charities - don't give to Oxfam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-50934940882302419102018-02-21T11:36:55.832+00:002018-02-21T11:36:55.832+00:00As with all charities you have to read the small p...As with all charities you have to read the small print to find the truth on funding etc, even the RNLI as an example is hardly short of cash, half a billion in fixed assets and a further quarter billion in floating assets.<br />And whilst it is funded by the good public and the volunteers work for nothing , the top end looks familiar.<br /><br />file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/annual-report-and-accounts-2016.pdfwiggiatlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679399861131265080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-51391720304292999352018-02-20T13:18:04.160+00:002018-02-20T13:18:04.160+00:00Anon 9:26
As the wife of a retired volunteer lifeb...Anon 9:26<br />As the wife of a retired volunteer lifeboatman thank you for your kind commen t. Grass-roots crews don't always agree with Head Office decisions (beach lifeguards for one) but are in full agreement with them having the best of intentions in seeking to save lives.<br />As volunteers there isn't a crew member who thinks of themselves as 'Heroes', the 'Death or Glory' boys don't last long. meltemiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-87487460854059277622018-02-20T09:26:11.237+00:002018-02-20T09:26:11.237+00:00Edward Spalton, always a thinking man.
Courteous ...Edward Spalton, always a thinking man.<br /><br />Courteous and knowledgeable, your posts are a delight to read, even if I don't always agree, the ideas and perspective give me pause and I deem a man given to truthfulness and with a very stout heart.<br /><br />RNLI, read about the unbelieveable courage of the lads who put out of Mousehole on one terrible night. Then you'll know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-43363221444707874712018-02-19T18:09:22.061+00:002018-02-19T18:09:22.061+00:00The depth and clarity of thought (for want of a be...The depth and clarity of thought (for want of a better term) of an Ed Spalton piece made such an impression on me I copy pasta'd it in its entirety on MW's blog. It should be required reading for not just Remainers but Brexiteers alike...and most especially for those whimsical darlings in Westminster:<br /><br />https://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/readers-letter-of-day.html <br /><br />(go on its only short-and MW's blog is well worth following if one wants to get down and dirty with economics and not just those of Brexit either ).jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-14361937044693648332018-02-19T17:35:36.194+00:002018-02-19T17:35:36.194+00:00@ES: have joined the mailing list. And read your l...@ES: have joined the mailing list. And read your letter - alas for Greece!Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-14013822352725326362018-02-19T17:30:13.211+00:002018-02-19T17:30:13.211+00:00Sacked son.
I believe the letter is now up on the ...Sacked son.<br />I believe the letter is now up on the site. <br />I think Briefings for Brexit are good stuff. I,have not yet been able to check,on their understanding of " Third Country" status and its effects on movement of goods. Many otherwise clued-up folk have a blind spot about that.<br /><br />APL<br />We have produced two really super booklets on the CFP in cooperation with Fishing for Leave - in my opinion the most clued up,fishermen's group. If you go to,publications and then to,pamphlets,they are in PDF.<br /><br />I hope we may keep in touch. You can just click to receive weekly updates from the website. No charge. Of course, we'd prefer it if you joined as a member ( £20) but you don't have to.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4316409413941173632018-02-19T17:15:52.872+00:002018-02-19T17:15:52.872+00:00Edward Spalton: "because of joining the EEC s...Edward Spalton: "because of joining the EEC shot up massively by stages,"<br /><br />Not to overlook the EU CFP and its policy of buying of African territorial fishing rights, from African despots, forcing the indigenous population out of the sector.<br /><br />Indirectly contributing to the migration out of Africa into Europe.<br /><br />APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-17905882478164085932018-02-19T17:07:05.435+00:002018-02-19T17:07:05.435+00:00@Edward Spalton - Thank you. Do please let us know...@Edward Spalton - Thank you. Do please let us know when your letter is published. Shall go to your website now; meanwhile, have you seen the new Briefings For Brexit site?<br /><br />https://briefingsforbrexit.com/Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-72861343183452706802018-02-19T16:56:44.649+00:002018-02-19T16:56:44.649+00:00Hello Sackerson,
I don't have my own blog but ...Hello Sackerson,<br />I don't have my own blog but I am Chairman of the Campaign for an Independent Britain<br /><br />short address for our blog is www.eurosceptic.org.uk <br /><br />You are welcome to borrow articles from there with attribution. . Some are mine, most other people's. All, I think, are pretty good and they cover a range of pro independence views.<br /><br />I have just done a letter which is going to most national and some regional newspapers on the shocking mortality rate in Greece which has pretty well doubled from the results of austerity. So much so that the government has stopped publishing the usual monthly figures for births and deaths. My informant is a distinguished Greek ambassador, now retired. Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-82297976490331041362018-02-19T16:19:31.642+00:002018-02-19T16:19:31.642+00:00@Edward Spalton: your last comment very thought-pr...@Edward Spalton: your last comment very thought-provoking. Shame you don't seem to have your own blog. Would you consider writing something for ours (Broad Oak Magazine)?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-38919197610463152202018-02-19T15:50:20.819+00:002018-02-19T15:50:20.819+00:00Doug Shoulders,
It has been on a very much larger...Doug Shoulders,<br /><br />It has been on a very much larger and more damaging scale than that. The EEC/EU Common Agricultural Policy, as originally applied, took no account of the rapidly rising productivity of modern farming methods. This produced the grain, beef and butter mountains. Some was actually recycled ("denatured") in animal food to produce more food but most was simply dumped on the world markets at prices way below the cost of production - a very good way of putting Commonwealth and other Third World farmers out of business medium to long term. . The Americans did much the same, stockpiling a great deal of food and periodically releasing it at subsidised prices.<br /><br />It was only because of the "green revolution" in plant breeding and other intensification of farming that the rising world population did not cause the global famine, so often predicted by castrophists. There are schools of thought which oppose intervention with outside charitable food supplies (just as there were during the Irish potato famine). There are also perverse incentives on holders of grain stocks to try to drive prices even higher.Some people think that purchasing power in the hands of the people would be better than shipping food. But you can imagine the speculation that might cause.<br /><br />In 1973 there was even a brief moment when it looked as if catastrophic climate change would permanently impair global food production - but global cooling rather than warming. There was very little snow cover in the Soviet Union during the winter of 1972/3 and it was extremely cold which killed all the Autumn-sown wheat crop. The Soviets managed a very nifty buying raid on Chicago and the world woke up very short of wheat. Our wheat price which had risen from around<br />£40-45 per ton to £60 -70 per ton because of joining the EEC shot up massively by stages, reaching £200 (i f my memory serves me right).<br /><br />Until the last century, most of the world was only one bad harvest away from severe malnutrition and two away from starvation. We came rather close to it in two submarine blockades but large adverse currency fluctuations, as well as sudden weather events could have the same effect. Transport and communication have altered that enormously. Whilst most of our imported food now comes from Europe, it's just as true as when Kipling wrote it in "The Big Steamers" "If anyone hinders our coming, you starve".<br /><br />My own belief is that a modern system of secure land tenure, giving Third World farmers the incentive to improve their holdings, is a key to the matter. Then it is worth their while to invest long term in improvements of all sorts. Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-33347200285575455372018-02-19T15:20:11.411+00:002018-02-19T15:20:11.411+00:00What charities and popstar gobshites always fail t...What charities and popstar gobshites always fail to see is an African farmer can’t compete with charity grain handed out for free so why bother.<br />Oxfam and the like is what a charity with honorable intentions warps into when the boots have been on the ground long enough to know that throwing money at a problem solves nothing.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-75833028678595247742018-02-19T13:55:39.939+00:002018-02-19T13:55:39.939+00:00Edward Spalton: " I am as satisfied as I a...Edward Spalton: " I am as satisfied as I am able to be that it is a good show."<br /><br />Just dropped £30 I'll consider doing the same next month.<br /><br />Although not altogether happy with the description "ZANE Pensioners, Veterans, Clubfoot & Community Development Work". But it is what it is.<br /><br /><br />Jack Kvetch: "and there we have it. "<br /><br />There you have what?<br /><br />Name one operation in the public sector that isn't demanding more funding?<br /><br />(Other than the Civil servants pension fund.)APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9902869800867523562018-02-19T13:49:01.939+00:002018-02-19T13:49:01.939+00:00Except, it's doing very well with out the gove...<i>Except, it's doing very well with out the government. Does it need money? Yes so send them a tenner</i> -APL<br /><br />and there we have it. <br /><br />jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-42051145900657566192018-02-19T13:44:37.643+00:002018-02-19T13:44:37.643+00:00https://suidlanders.org/who-we-are/-APL
Now THAT ...<i>https://suidlanders.org/who-we-are/</i>-APL<br /><br />Now THAT was interesting. Been a long time since I heard the name "van Rensburg". jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-72118390504271145852018-02-19T13:42:50.669+00:002018-02-19T13:42:50.669+00:00www.zane.uk.com
is the website.
There are diffe...www.zane.uk.com<br /><br />is the website. <br /><br />There are different sections for different activities.<br />And, as I say, you can decide which one your money goes to.<br /><br />Having had a look at the books etc and the accounts of their activities,<br />I am as satisfied as I am able to be that it is a good show.<br />Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-10955538557439662192018-02-19T13:38:20.792+00:002018-02-19T13:38:20.792+00:00jack Kvetch: "I'm talking about funding, ...jack Kvetch: "I'm talking about funding, not administration."<br /><br />Do you think for a second that when the government funds a thing it doesn't impose conditions?<br /><br />jack Kvetch: "Does the Fire Brigade not work?"<br /><br />Does the fire brigade have equal opportunities policies? Anti discrimination policies for 110 lb girls who want to play fire woman?<br /><br />jack Kvetch: "There is no reason why the RNLI shouldn't receive all its funding from government "<br /><br />Except, it's doing very well with out the government. Does it need money? Yea. So send them a tenner.APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-21728966226955093412018-02-19T13:32:43.440+00:002018-02-19T13:32:43.440+00:00Yes, we want it to work.-APL
I'm talking abou...<i>Yes, we want it to work.</i>-APL<br /><br />I'm talking about <i>funding</i>, not administration. Does the Fire Brigade not work? Would the other Emergency Services work better if they weren't financed from the public purse? There is no reason why the RNLI shouldn't receive all its funding from government -that would be the 'middle way' , true toryism. <br /><br />jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-35657811088632547342018-02-19T13:25:36.879+00:002018-02-19T13:25:36.879+00:00"Do go and have a look at the website"
..."Do go and have a look at the website"<br /><br />I did. But all I saw was happy African kids, who next year will be attempting to cross the Sahara without any water, then, those who survive and get to Tripoli, will be at the mercy of the Islamic slavers installed by Clinton and Cameron. But should they get across the Med, with the help of George Soros they'll make straight for Calais, were we'll hear no end of whinging from post menopausal former hippies about the poor people of the jungle.<br /><br />"but looking after pensioners, many of whom are ex British forces or their widows and who who are completely destitute."<br /><br />Ok, that's different. I'll have another look.APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-50271425698950344592018-02-19T13:17:28.548+00:002018-02-19T13:17:28.548+00:00APL
Do go and have a look at the website
It is n...APL<br /><br />Do go and have a look at the website<br /><br />It is not "propping up Zimbabwe" but looking after pensioners, many of whom are<br />ex British forces or their widows and who who are completely destitute. <br /><br />They have other projects too and you can choose which your money goes to.<br />Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-43870935910016658832018-02-19T13:03:56.458+00:002018-02-19T13:03:56.458+00:00Rather than helping Africans migrate to Europe, I&...Rather than helping Africans migrate to Europe, I'd urge people to consider contributing to this cause:<br /><br />https://suidlanders.org/who-we-are/<br /><br />APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-392506733814623042018-02-19T13:02:32.218+00:002018-02-19T13:02:32.218+00:00"Zimbabwe turned an economy with sufficient f..."Zimbabwe turned an economy with sufficient food for the domestic population and surplus to exporting into domestic shortages and malnutrition in twenty years.<br /><br />That is Black rule."<br /><br />More exactly, <b>Marxist</b> black rule. Botswana, next door to Zimbabwe, is quite different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-77583637781643953692018-02-19T12:59:37.322+00:002018-02-19T12:59:37.322+00:00Edward Spalton: "One charity which I heartily...Edward Spalton: "One charity which I heartily support is ZANE, Zimbabwe A National Emergency "<br /><br />I'd consider it Edward, but the term 'pissing into the wind' comes to mind.<br /><br />I'm sorry for the folk in Zimbabwe who would like to live in a first world country, with functioning services. For a time Rhodesia was, but it isn't now, and while the Blacks run it, it never will be. <br /><br />So, why prop it up?APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-85679794925083623042018-02-19T12:55:16.939+00:002018-02-19T12:55:16.939+00:00jack Kvetch: "can there be any moral imperati...jack Kvetch: "can there be any moral imperative for it NOT being 100% government funded? "<br /><br />Yes, we want it to work.APLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353111635255109337noreply@blogger.com