Lefties hellbent on shutting down Elon Musk’s X handed hundreds of thousands in taxpayers’ cash
Campaigners calling for Elon Musk’s X platform to be closed down have received £300,000 from organisations partly-funded by the taxpayer.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, set up by the late founder of Hamlyn publishers, is among the charities that have given money to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
The foundation received £1.4million from the Government and the Greater London Assembly between 2020 and 2023.
Last year, a whistleblower revealed that an internal CCDH document listed one of the group’s aims as: “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”
In November 2020, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation donated £100,000 to Stop Funding Hate, with the aim of “empowering communities to tackle media hate.”
However, while the money was paid out while the Tories were in power, Conservative MPs want Labour to stop paying grants to organisations that help fund left-wing campaign groups.
It has been even claimed that one of the campaign groups was co-founded by Morgan McSweeney, who is now Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff.
Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty said: “It’s disgraceful that taxpayers’ hard-earned money is being wasted on Left-wing campaign groups, one set up by the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who are waging war on our free media and trying to shut down X.
“The Government should urgently look into the recipients of these grants and make sure they are operating within standards the public would expect – not just fulfilling political vendettas.”
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