Our Global Quangos Uncovered campaign reached its summit this week as we published a new factbook, shining a light on the cost to British taxpayers of unaccountable international organisations. Our new analysis shows the UK has handed over a whopping £85 billion to organisations like the World Health Organisation (WHO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and United Nations (UN) over the last 12 years. Despite these groups facing considerable criticism in recent months and years, we’re due to fork out £7.5 billion each year until 2027!
Responding to our findings in the Sun on Sunday, former home secretary, Priti Patel, said: “The billions of pounds spent by ministers and civil servants is taxpayers’ money who will naturally think that their Government is throwing away their hard earned cash to unaccountable international organisations, with little scrutiny or oversight in terms of what this means for them.” These organisations have a habit of expanding their briefs and lecturing on topics well outside their purview. This week I blogged about the WHO wanting health warnings in films and TV Shows like 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan because certain characters might be lighting up. Another group in receipt of your cash is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This week they published a report saying women in the UK were the worst binge drinkers in the developed world. Whilst appearing on the BBC’s Politics Live (more on that later), our head of campaigns, Elliot Keck, called out this shoddy attempt to shame Brits enjoying a tipple: “This is another case of the OECD, a global quango that is going well beyond its remit. They were set up to help economic development and international trade and it’s now beating British women over the head for daring to have two thirds of a bottle of wine once a month!”
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Hard working taxpayers will be wondering why on earth they are having to shell out billions of pounds every year, just to be hectored by international bureaucrats. You can download your copy of our Global Quangos Uncovered factbook here!
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