Thread by @CharlotteCGill

"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