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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1500521963642630148 I prefer the Boris system. Block refugees from coming to the UK Only rich people can come here Refugees not welcome I can't be arsed finishing this poo poo idea S Edit: Good lord. There are 23 rubbish things about this post. domhal fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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domhal posted:I prefer the Boris system. *solemn news voice* UK used to mean “United Kingdom”, but ask anyone today and they'll tell you it stands for “Unbelievable Kunts”
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Lady Demelza posted:Does anyone have an opinion on the thing on social media about booking AirBnBs in Ukraine? Some of my relatives refuse to donate money to charities and are increasingly frustrated that nobody is willing to drive blankets and bags of rice 1500 miles. They might be on board with donating via booking a 'holiday' in a house that probably doesn't exist any more. It feels extremely British to decide that the one group of Ukrainians that really needs support at this time is the landlords. (Also surely since this idea start doing the rounds AirBnB must have been overloaded with completely fictional apartments in Kiev).
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Lady Demelza posted:All admin staff who work for charities are paid £150k a year *and* siphoning off donations. Wow, I wish I was paid that. (IT for a charity) ETA. The one I work for is on that list, but not near the top. Angrymog fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:As an admin person for a charity I can safely say that I don't even earn enough to pay tax. The TOTAL salary budget for this year for our charity is under £50k - that is 4 employees on part-time hours including the CEO. Well over 70% of our donations go out to our projects overseas (and very little of that is on salaries for our project partners - their salaries tend to be under £100 per month in sterling). The Airbnb ceo has a salary of 1$. And 120 million in stock grants, per first google result
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peanut- posted:It feels extremely British to decide that the one group of Ukrainians that really needs support at this time is the landlords. The original idea behind Airbnb was to let people offer their own home for extreme short term lets while they weren't there. Arguably they're returning to their roots.
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domhal posted:I prefer the Boris system. Shitiness is our guiding principle
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Pablo Bluth posted:Islamophobia mandatory
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes I know. I would hope that many more charities are like the one I work for and not the big-salaried or rip-off merchant charities. Some of the salaried people on that list who work at places like Wellcome and Francis Crick may be highly-skilled doctors, scientists and engineers who could easily get that kind of salary (or more) in the private sector, so it may not even be a case of managers getting paid too much, but certain salaries being needed to attract the best people to research jobs etc. In any event, some of those salaries for people running what are in effect large £100m+ organisations aren't so unreasonable either. I'd rather large charities were run by people who really knew what they were doing (and were paid accordingly). THAT SAID, I have no doubt that some managerial salaries are too much and I cannot see how one could justify the head of a charity, even a large one, getting close to £1m a year. Even £500k/pa is a very large sum of money and should be enough.
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https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal anyone know anything about these people?
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My experience is that there's a perception at charities that it would be hypocritical to not pay your own staff a competitive wage, so yes, charity workers often do & should earn a decent living However, there's also a perception in society in general that being a CEO is a real job involving actual work & that it should be rewarded with more pay rather than being fed into a woodchipper, which is not the case
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I think the percentage of donations spent on charitable work versus admin costs/advertising etc is probably a more useful metric than looking at specific wages While I'm on the subject, gently caress those high street chuggers, keep that clipboard and creepy smile the gently caress away from me Also I'm in on the keller lenkner train and if something goes wrong: - lol - it wasn't me - good luck getting money I don't have
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jiggerypokery posted:https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal anyone know anything about these people? Not specifically but they are a very well known outfit. They also do direct relief stuff which is a plus for me, as in they just give out food and tents and clothing right away. A lot of aid agencies can get bogged down in doing education pieces in emergencies when what people actually need is help right now. Less so at times of war though.
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Convex posted:*solemn news voice* UK used to mean “United Kingdom”, but ask anyone today and they'll tell you it stands for “Unbelievable Kunts” It's been temporarily replaced with Unwelcoming to uKraine
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Borrovan posted:I feel the original was more true to the Johnsonian approach
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Zalakwe posted:Not specifically but they are a very well known outfit. They also do direct relief stuff which is a plus for me, as in they just give out food and tents and clothing right away. A lot of aid agencies can get bogged down in doing education pieces in emergencies when what people actually need is help right now. Less so at times of war though. Yeah the specific role of the DEC is to distribute money to (appropriately-vetted) charities doing immediate emergency relief in a particular disaster area - while a lot of the charities involved also have education and other long-term goals, DEC funds are directly targeted on relief and normally only for a specific, limited time and appeal. If there is a criticism to be made of them it's that they often drop off the foil blankets and army-surplus rations and tents then dust their hands and go "Welp, see you all next earthquake". That's a reason to look into giving money to specific charities doing longer-term rebuilding and reform projects once the immediate crisis is over though, rather than a reason not to give money to DEC while people are actually starving/drowning/trapped in rubble.
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https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1500786978585038851/photo/1 A lot of people claiming this is anti-BDS legislation and they're half-right - it's a law meant to stop people from divesting in apartheid-era South Africa.
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OwlFancier posted:It didn't work when the liberals tried to say that donald trump, or brexit, or whatever else was a russian conspiracy, because whether it is even true is irrelevant, it is loved, advocated for, and enacted by people who live next door to you with their own minds and ideas as much as anything else in their life is. Yeah I don't buy the bot thing either. In the next election when a lot of leftists say they won't be voting for Starmer, that won't be down to Starmer, or the PLP, or any political or historical context, it'll be because we're all bots. Personal anecdote but all the anti-vaxxers on my social media are completely distracted by the Ukraine thing right now. That can also cause the tweet statistics or whatever the gently caress to change. The same news sources they get the vaccine stuff from are now telling them weird poo poo about Putin and Hunter Biden. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Lady Demelza posted:All admin staff who work for charities are paid £150k a year *and* siphoning off donations. I mean, nice, but then they're surprised some rando off the street won't take a day off to drive his white van from Walsall to Kyiv with a bunch of blankets and compo rations in the back? There are people who know how to do that and do it all the time, they are called charities 
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Zalakwe posted:Isn't the Independent owned by a Russian oligarch? Uh no, Baron Lebedev, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation was educated in British boarding schools & sits in the House of Lords, how could he be a Russian oligarch? Sure, he was only in England as a kid because his da was spy in residence at the Soviet Embassy in London, and his dad left the KGB in the early 90s to buy a bank (those spy pensions must be pretty generous) and the Italians reckon he never actually left the spy game until after he'd bought an admittedly struggling bank that he's turned around to the point where it owns 11% of Russian flag carrying airline Aeroflot, 44% of airplane manufacturers Ilyushin as well as sizeable chunks of Gazprom, Sberbank & others. What possibly gave you the impression he's an oligarch, don't you know Boris vetted him before raising him to the Lords*? *Kidding, Boris decided to waive the vetting process for him.
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Lungboy posted:I've no idea if that group case will get off the ground or not but that company are massively in debt and set off alarm bells. Ruh-roh I mean, I yolo'd with them because I wanted to pitch in to help bankrupt the Labour party and maybe make a little dollar on the side, but if there's gonna be the potential for them to take money off me then I think I should find a way to back out, cos I can't afford to get suckered into paying some dodgy lawyers a bunch of money, I made, like, £4000 in the last financial year Borrovan posted:They literally do have to word it like that, that's not suspicious (however, check what they charge if they do win) 25% of winnings, apparently
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Barry Foster posted:25% of winnings, apparently (also the most common amount for firms to charge so don't let me put you off, it all sounds on the level to me, the form saying "you are liable for all of my costs here is my hourly rate" is scary I know but it's genuinely nothing to worry about & it is literally a legal requirement for them to say that)
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Borrovan posted:Literally the legal maximum on how much they're allowed to charge on a CFA, cool. Ok, cool Like, I don't care about making personal financial gains (and 75% of something is better than 0% of nothing, I guess) but I really can't make any losses Mostly it's just a hail mary on a black eye for Keef
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Also for people worried about the sketchiness of the firm, you can look up law firms on the SRA website (link), & click through to look at individual solicitors' records if you like. Haven't looked much but can't see any red flags. Considering law firms tend to be owned & operated by lawyers, I wouldn't particularly be put off by all the £millions of debt, it's probably all owed to a holding company in the name of one of the directors' dogs.
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Necrothatcher posted:https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1500834206083129344?s=20&t=xKblyZg2fEax304Zi_pB5w Holy poo poo. The MEN is so loving awful.
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OwlFancier posted:The most charitable interpretation I can think of would be perhaps he was living in poland at the time? Nope, the article straight up says that he was fighting in defence of Ukraine. Dude's an ex-Nazi.
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So... yes presumably Ukrainian nationalist who joined the nazis lmao.
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https://twitter.com/poncyvaper/status/1500584476669366276 hullo i'm new labours have you considered wearing a jumper instead of being poor? need to light your home? set a jumper on fire. need ventilation? attach several jumpers to a cat. hungry? eat a jumper you prole scum.
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deano posted:passed being suprised at this stage, get the wood thing with the choppy bit time tbh absolute lol at them calling it a “loan” because Andrew has so many opportunities for future earnings now
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