"The Alternative Budget"
Here are 20 suggestions for Labour to begin tackling '£20bn hole in public finances'.
Below are all taxpayer-funded things that could be cut/ scrapped🧵:
1) £840k
The UKRI study “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000”.
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/over-1m-taxp…
2) £1,485,400
Study that investigates the ‘white-centricity’ of folk music:
telegraph.co.uk/music/news/fol…
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=M…
3) £132,846 per year
Amy Lamé, the Night Czar
4) £7.2 million
The British Academy's "Global Professorship" scheme.
£7.2 million is set aside for international researchers to come here - seeing as there's so much space.
It's for humanities and social sciences researchers (very in-demand skills ofc).
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/the-british-…
5) £1 million
Research on ‘decolonising gender-based violence’ at universities worldwide (not even in Britain):
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/3…
6) £805,769
"Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)"
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
7) £809,334
Study on Shakespeare which claims his involvement "in scholarship and performance has aligned early modern drama in the public mind with white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives"
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…
8) £250,000 +
Vercida - The Civil Service diversity recruitment service, which wrote a newsletter (on behalf of the DCMS) saying that the Napoleonic Wars were part of “queer history”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/0…
9) £1,843,746 (2023-2026)
Soho Theatre (funded by Arts Council England = taxpayers)
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…
10) £70,000 approx
“Early years in Scotland: An exploration of "race", class, gender and coloniality in child-centred learning within home educating communities of colour”.
“I carry on with this work that has been fashioned by the blood, sweat, tears..." charlottecgill.co.uk/p/why-are-uk-t…
11) £243,360
Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970:
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/taxpayer-fun…
12) £250,000 +
Taxpayer-funded grants for the hate-crime charity "forum+".
Its charitable activities include film and cooking clubs, art workshops to celebrate “queer joy and creativity” and LGBTQ+ “Rainbow Paddlers” Kayaking sessions.
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/islington-an…
13) £185,627
"Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism" - £185,627 from the taxpayer
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/trans-perfor…
14) £600,000 in government grants since 2019
Tara Theatre, “for people of global majority.”
Currently hosting the “Decolonise Choir”:
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/the-decoloni…
15) £148k per year
Mete Coban, the Mayor of London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy charlottecgill.co.uk/p/mete-coban-m…
16) £110,000-£114,999 per year
Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-is-will-…
17) £51,000 +
The study that says porcelain can be used as a “critique of white supremacy"
18) £150,000 per year from ACE
Peepal Tree Press, which is "Decolonising bookshelves since 1985"
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/0…
19) £1 million a year
Techne Consoritum (of universities)
Funds PhDs such as the “garden as a site to cultivate queer anti-racist communities” and “spiritual activism”.
Played host to witches recently:
20) £759,293
Comics and Race in Latin America
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