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May 31, 2005
Lottery funding
Yet another farce in our "Cool Britannia" and a major reason that I have stopped buying lottery tickets is the latest scandal to hit the Lottery Grant Funding system. Recently we have seen a Lifeboat station turned down for a grant because they do not "help enough ethnic minority people or the disabled". The latest is even more bizarre: a village committee which sought a grant to helkp fund the replacement of a temporary building which serves as (and has done so since World War 2) the village hall. It is now in a dangerous state of repair and needs to be pulled down and replaced.
Their grant was refused. Reason? "It will not serve to promote ethnic minority issues, asylum seekers rights or those of other under represented groups." Quite, it is a rural village community. Maybe they should import a few asylum seekers, promote gay and lesbian events and build a range of houses suitable for attracting a population from one of the many ethnic minority groups that really wish to live in rural England. Perhaps the lifeboat station crew could do the same thing. Encourage the groups they have under-representation for to take to the water in all weathers, in dangerous and unsuitable craft so that the life boat can go and rescue them. Perhaps that would get them their grant.
It really is ridiculous to have millions of pounds of lottery money being handed out to terrorist organisations, asylum seeker campaign groups, and basically any group with a socialist or communist agenda - as long as it is not for the benefit of the majority population who have paid the money into the fund in the first place! Of course our great and good on the Quango that apportions the money deny that anything goes to terrorists - but they provide funds to organisations that support the Finsbury Mosque at which Abu Bakhri and Abu Hamza preach Jihad and openly recruit for al Qaeda.
Well, not with my money anymore. I will not buy another lottery ticket until these morons are removed and the funds are distributed on merit and not on political criteria.
I strongly urge all other denizens of this beleagured isle to do the same!
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 31, 2005 10:03 AM