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   Lady_Penelope (lady_penelope@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:10:29 JST Lady_Penelope
   If a foreign slush fund is funding something in a country, it's often because it's not wanted in that country.
   https://www.thetimes.com/article/62cb4fe0-1d91-43f5-a364-bc539eb3234f?shareToken=28cd28f7a1e212f58fca18b4f8ff68b7
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:10:29 JST Flick ??

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     @Lady_Penelope Toby Young reckons it’s bollocks:

     Why do I say it’s fishy? Well, making half the 114 staff redundant because Stonewall is no longer going to receive ~£166,000 a year from USAID only makes sense if its 114 staff are being paid, on average, £2,912 a year each (57 x 2,912 = ~166,000). So, the nasty orange man’s spiteful cuts to Stonewall’s funding must be an excuse, not the real reason for the redundancies.

     This is the take from an informed critic of the organisation in a WhatsApp group I’m in:

     They’re assuming (probably rightly) that all their staff are innumerate and they are using this as an excuse to make redundancies easier to sell. Better than saying “We’re shit, we’ve destroyed our brand, we can’t get a decent CEO, we can’t keep board members, experts are genuinely surprised that we managed to get our accounts signed off last year with a operating deficit of nearly a million” – and this way they get rid of dead weight, restructure and go cap in hand to the Government.

     If any Stonewall employees are made redundant by the organisation for this bullshit reason they may have a case in the Employment Tribunal.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:21:49 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @Flick @Lady_Penelope The assumption of innumeracy is probably accurate.
     During lockdowns one friend told me that one tenth of the UK had died of the kung flu (don't you care you evil bigot etc etc). So between 7 and 8 million bodies littering the streets apparently.
     Another told me that over a quarter of a million people had died in India in a day of convid (look how bad it is, don't you care etc etc). I reminded her that was about the size of a small city in the UK compared to India's population of 1 and a half billion, and that more died of other diseases such as malnutrition, dysentery, cancer etc. She worked for a government body that managed statistics for the MOD.
     I might forgive the first one; she wears her lack of education as a badge of honour and lives on social media for approval. The second one I'm not so sure.