Well, they’re getting one thing right. Only one, but it’s That one.
Stonewall could be forced to cut up to half of its staff after President Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid, The Times understands. Workers at the LGBTQ+ charity were told on Thursday that restructuring would take place, and that only roles with dedicated funding would be safe.
Simon Blake, the chief executive of Stonewall, made the announcement in an office-wide Teams call, which was said to have left its 114 staff “shellshocked”.
Sources said they believed up to half of the workforce could be made redundant in the move, which they were told would “secure the future of Stonewall for the long term as a significant LGBTQ+ organisation able to deliver impactful campaigns and legislative change across the UK and further afield”.
Of course they use silly (and American!) jargon like “impactful,” the dorks. “Campaigns that have an impact” will do just fine thank you.
Funding from the US came to Stonewall through the Global Equality Fund (GEF), administered by the US state department, which has given the charity more than half a million pounds in the past three years. The GEF focuses on “advancing LGBTI rights around the world” and is a pooled fund with contributions from numerous countries and private businesses, but it has not published accounts since 2015.
Plus it duct-taped the T to the LGB. Never duct-tape the T to the LGB.
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5 responses to “Keep it simple”
This would be a bad thing if Stonewall had not been taken over by a bad cause. I would have preferred the bad cause be removed than this, as it stands now I’m not sure if the benefit outweighs the bad.
Stonewall could be forced to cut up to half of its staff… After Harold Macmillan sacked half his cabinet in the Night of the Long Knives Harold Wilson quipped that he had sacked the wrong half.
Are they really getting it right? To me, it’s a bit like those Chick Tracts that denounce Mormonism – sure, the LDS Church is terrible, but I’m not too fond of the criticism it receives from other religious fanatics focused on promoting their own delusions.
Well I meant “one thing” very literally and narrowly. I didn’t mean they were doing it for the right reasons.
Well what else does GEF fund? Stonewall presumably is just one casualty amongst many. If the target was Kiev but you just happened to get a Hamas commander who was visiting family “getting one narrow thing right” wouldn’t be an accurate statement.