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Charlotte Gill Profile picture
@CharlotteCGill
Jul 27 • 21 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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"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🧵: Image
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…

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3) £132,846 per year

Amy Lamé, the Night Czar Image
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…

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6) £805,769

"Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)"

gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
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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…

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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…
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9) £1,843,746 (2023-2026)

Soho Theatre (funded by Arts Council England = taxpayers)

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…
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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…

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11) £243,360

Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970:

charlottecgill.co.uk/p/taxpayer-fun…
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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…
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13) £185,627

"Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism" - £185,627 from the taxpayer

charlottecgill.co.uk/p/trans-perfor…
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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…
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15) £148k per year

Mete Coban, the Mayor of London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy charlottecgill.co.uk/p/mete-coban-m…
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16) £110,000-£114,999 per year

Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-is-will-…
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17) £51,000 +

The study that says porcelain can be used as a “critique of white supremacy"
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18) £150,000 per year from ACE

Peepal Tree Press, which is "Decolonising bookshelves since 1985"

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/0…
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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:
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20) £759,293

Comics and Race in Latin America Image

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Jul 28
The Mayor of Hackney introducing Thinking Spaces, “a safe and therapeutic space where Black and Global Majority (14+) community residents can openly discuss and process the lasting effects of systemic racism”.
"safe spaces for residents to discuss and heal their trauma" Image
The counselling service behind "Thinking Spaces" also runs a "6-week group to explore your lived experience of being a refugee in Hackney": Image
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Jul 8
Britain is "addicted to punishment" says James Timpson.

Really? 🧵

Let's look at Usman Khan, the terrorist responsible for the London Bridge attack 2019 (because there was also the London Bridge attack 2017). Image
1) Khan stabbed five people, two fatally (Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, two Cambridge graduates), who were attending a Learning Together (prisoner-educational initiative) conference at Fishmongers’ Hall. Image
2) Khan, who was fatally shot by firearms officers at the scene of the attacks, “had a history of involvement in events of violence as a teenager”, including “acts preparatory to custody”, according to an inquest on the deaths. Image
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Jun 7
I'm about to do a very long thread, to show you how awful austerity has been. How, as Penny Mordaunt says, Labour will spend loads of money unlike sensible Tories. Let's look at these claims #BBCDebate 🧵

1) Trans artist’s search for a sperm donor given £64,000 of taxpayer cash Image
2) Research on ‘decolonising gender-based violence’ has cost taxpayers £1 million Image
3) £614,582 per year taxpayer-funded Soho Theatre tells white audience members to ‘check their privilege’ Image
Read 84 tweets
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Jun 4
I'm concerned by the number of British charities/ otherwise funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. PHF is a foundation that supports open borders. I have found two examples of it funding charities that advised the Government. One is HOPE not hate (advised the Home Office). Image
PHF has given hundreds of thousands to organisations whose raison d’être is magnifying racial differences and splitting society up by ethnicity. This is always presented as caring/social justice, but it's counterproductive to social cohesion and diversity.

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It also has a "Migration Fund", which HOPE not hate has received three times (worth hundreds of thousands of pounds).

charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-yo…

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May 25
Taxpayer-funded PhD student Daisy Bow du Toit defends her coursemate who’s “using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire” 🧵
2) Burgher is the subject of my article for The Telegraph today

Both doctoral researchers are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (taxpayer).

The final cost for each PhD is likely to be upwards of £50k.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/2…
3) du Toit’s PhD is The Craft of Content Foundation at The University of Kingston kingston.ac.uk/research/resea…
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May 19
Universities are whinging that they need MORE money. 🧵

How?

Taxpayers paid them:

1) £1 million for this study at the University of Westminster Centre for Social Justice Research

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2) £805,745 - University of Roehampton

Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays
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3) £841,830 - Birmingham City University (lead)

The Europe That Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 Image
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