In an open letter the Prime Minister, Chancellor and Business Secretary, a number of charities and NGOs note that following a record rise in the cost of gas on the global market, households face an enormous increase in their energy bills, fuelling a cost-of-living crisis. The surge in gas prices could increase fuel poverty by 50%, from 4 to 6 million households. It could lead to millions of vulnerable households rationing their energy, increasing unnecessary loss of life during winter and the burden on the NHS when it is already under extreme strain due to the pandemic. Emergency support is needed immediately for the most vulnerable households.



They say “The root cause of the cost-of-living crisis is the UK’s heavy reliance on fossil gas for heating and power. Over 85% of UK homes currently depend on fossil gas heating, and exposure to volatile international gas markets is exacerbated by our cold and leaky housing stock”.

The letter calls on the government to address these underlying drivers of the crisis by investing in a greener, fairer and healthier future. The path to long-term resilience and to tackle the climate crisis is to ensure all UK homes are well insulated, to shift off gas and to homegrown, sustainable, renewable energy.

This, as we know, is complete drivel. This energy crisis is wholly self-inflicted because successive governments have chosen to follow the path of decarbonisation. If these were authentic and organic organisations, they would be cling on the government to bring down bills by any means necessary, but they’re all in lockstep, singing from the same hymn sheet. Many of the signatories are household names which have long been captured by the green blob, run by PR girlies marinated in woke dogma and climate voodoo.

This is classic astroturfing whereby government is able to claim legitimacy by pointing to the support of “civil society organisations” but in truth they represent nobody but themselves. They are rent seeking parasites, many of whom are wholly dependent on the state and shadowy left wing foundations for money. Were it that these organisations depended exclusively on the goodwill of the public, most of them would have gone under years ago. The establishment, though, would never allow that. They need their smokescreen of unaccountable corporate scale “charities”.

Most of these organisation are left wing, and all of them are anti-Brexit. They are an integral part of the establishment, and the main reason why nothing changes regardless of who you vote for. This is where the real power in Britain resides. Many conservatives recognise this but they won’t pick a fight with the establishment, not least because they’d be demonised by the media for attacking charities.

UKIP has not such qualms about taking them on. In fact is its the first and most necessary act of any government if we are to transform the country into one that carries out the public will. UKIP will defund NGOs and charities and strip them of their charitable status if they cannot demonstrate an authentic public income stream. UKIP will prevent NGOs with foreign backers from giving evidence to select committees.

Earlier this month we learned that the controversial charity Stonewall has received £1.25 million in taxpayer-funded grants in the past 18 months, with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as its largest donor. Cash handouts to the LGBT+ charity from the Government and public bodies increased by more than 67 per cent from their previous set of accounts, with the Foreign Office alone handing over more than £750,000 in 2020-21.

The accounts to March 2021, which cover a period of 18 months, show that the charity received £1,249,363 in grants from public bodies. This is a near-67 per cent increase on the £748,295 they received in their previous accounts, which covered 12 months from to September 2019. Taxpayer-funded bodies accounted for more than 52 per cent of the total grants. The Foreign Office’s contribution of £765,061 was more than five times the £145,075 that the department provided the year before.

Stonewall was once leading gay rights organisation but in recent years has morphed into an all purpose LGBT quango, pushing the transgender ideology into all levels of government – including the police. Stonewall works to institutionalise the principle that people should be treated as the ‘gender’ they say they are, teaching businesses’ Human Resources departments to enforce the principle. Precisely how dangerous that is is beyond the scope of this article, but even gay rights campaigners have realised that Stonewall no longer acts in their interests.

We are encouraged to see universities and arms of the civil service stepping back from Stonewall but it goes to show how deeply embedded they’ve become over the years. Much the same can be said of other charities. The RNLI is gradually morphing into an advocacy NGO for illegal immigrants while Save The Children and WWF have become climate lobbyists.

This, ultimately, is what we mean when we say “the establishment”. The revolving door system between think tanks, NGOs, politics and the BBC. They represent nobody, and push their minority will on the rest of us, despite there being a clear mandate to overhaul human rights law and immigration. This same activism is in part why we have failed to invest in useful baseload energy generation and it’s why our bills are skyrocketing.

This corrupt ecosystem of special interests was one of the more compelling reasons to leave the EU, but it seems that same technocratic culture has replicated into the British political and legal system over the last three decades. They don’t have to set up parties, make their case and get people to vote for their agenda. They can just dip into their vast war chest, buy a top legal team and get to work. Any government serious about restoring meaningful democracy must go to war on the NGOcracy. The Tories won’t, Labour definitely won’t, but UKIP will.