Why do they do it?

[DodgyAgent]

It keeps on giving: Charity Commission writes to four charities that signed pro-Tory letter in The Daily Telegraph | Third Sector

The Charity Commission is writing to four charities that appeared among more than 5,000 signatories of a letter to The Daily Telegraph newspaper in support of the Conservative Party, asking that they "remedy the situation swiftly".
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A spokesman for the commission said: "Signing a letter in support of a political party is not a legitimate activity for a charity. We will be writing to all four charities to establish the facts and expect them to remedy the situation swiftly if they have not done so already. The commission will decide what further action, if any, is necessary once the charities have responded."

The spokesman said the commission had already been made aware that Diverse Cymru and Marsha Phoenix had publicly asked for their names to be removed from the list, and said that this was "the right course of action".

Rebecca Long, director of Marsha Phoenix, said: "The named signatory is an employee of the trust who has confirmed she has not been approached to be signatory to such a letter as a small business owner. We believe our and her inclusion on this list is some sort of error."

The Torys are just disgustingly lazy. It would not be hard to find large numbers of small businessmen ready to endorse their party

[NickFitz]

The Torys are just disgustingly lazy. It would not be hard to find large numbers of small businessmen ready to endorse their party

Exactly. It's utterly bizarre that they manage to cock something like this up to such an enormous degree

Not saying I'm sorry that they did, mind

But still. They could at least try

[minestrone]

The tories are absolutely fooked in this general election but not because they have run a particularly bad campaign ( which they have ) but because the general electorate is mind numbingly thick.