‘Woke waste': The biggest scandal you've never heard of
Charlotte Gill is an investigative journalist who founded and runs Woke Waste, a website that examines taxpayer funded grants to charities and institutions. She describes herself on X as running 'DOGE UK', DOGE being the Elon Musk headed Department of Government Efficiency in Trump's administration.
' There are a lot of government quangos, especially in the arts sector. You've got the Arts Council England, which we give £445 million per year to. It funds the likes of Soho Theatre, giving it just under £2 million, which put on shows like '52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals' and a comedy show where white audience members are encouraged to check their privilege at the door.'
She joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on this week's Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above.
' One of the worst areas that would worry taxpayers is the funding going into charities. We think that they're good causes, but a lot of them are lobbying for open borders, with our money.
' I also think there's a bigger danger with NGOs [non-government organisations] generally. Most of them are politically active and Far Left in a way that the Right would never be able to get away with. It's potentially opening up Britain to lots of foreign interference meddling.'
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