Well, who would have thought it?
The RNLI is celebrating its 200th birthday. It’s one of the richest and most beloved charities in the UK and is dedicated to saving lives at sea.
Yet shocking allegations from whistleblowers around Britain have revealed the RNLI is mired in a growing controversy that threatens to derail its bicentennial celebrations — and possibly the charity as a whole.
The lifeboat organisation has been accused of harbouring a toxic culture of bullying that sees volunteers ‘mistreated’ and bosses doing ‘anything’ to silence people who threaten its reputation and donations, even if it means ‘lying to the public’.
Former volunteers who gave decades of their lives to the RNLI told MailOnline they will ‘never give another penny’ to the charity.
I stopped any gifts to this toxic ‘charity’ some years ago. Remember the unsuitable mugs controversy? That was the final straw for me. Since then, they have been a free ferry service doing the people smugglers’ work for them, bringing foreign invaders ashore instead of doing what they are there for, rescuing people in difficulties at sea.
From plotting with ‘arrogant’ youngsters to force out volunteers with 320 years of combined experience to covering up ‘assaults, sexism and bullying’, RNLI stations around the country have faced a plethora of controversial accusations.
Whistleblowers say what ties the stations’ troubles together is RNLI management’s almost identical style of response, which they claim is lies, denials and a refusal to apologise in the face of a mountain of evidence.
This is what happens when the cancer of cultural Marxism takes a hold. There is no cure other than euthanasia. They will never get another penny from me. Ever.
As a windsurfer I gave to the RNLI because I felt safer sailing offshore in the UK, knowing that in case of mishap, they would be there. I don’t windsurf any more, and after I saw the mug thing I stopped giving.
I also stopped my dd over the ‘mugs’ issue (amongst others).
This was around the time the scales dropped from my eyes and I began to understand how much harm is being done to this country by people who consider themselves our betters.
I feel so lucky to have lived my life in this country during an incredible period, such a shame so many of the good aspects of that are under threat and may be denied to future generations.
I used to donate, partly due to the RNLI being one of the few remaining charities that isn’t funded by taxes. I stopped after the mug incident but I’m also incensed by them enabling illegal immigration too.
Charities have become an attractive area for careerists to take over. Unfortunately the original aims of the charity become trampled by the virtue signalling of the new bosses. The march through the institutions continues, shoulder to shoulder with all the marchers elsewhere.
Just stop donating to them. Local charities are (mostly) safe… there is not enough money to tempt the carpetbaggers*.
*From Britannica: The term was applied to Northern politicians and financial adventurers whom Southerners accused of coming to the South to use the newly enfranchised freedmen as a means of obtaining office or profit.
Pournelles Iron Law of Bureaucracy is appropriate here:
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people”:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisor’s in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Similarly, Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics are relevant too:
1) Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2) Any organisation not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3) The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Both lots apply to the RNLI nowadays.