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Charity snubs EDL for using cancer stricken girl in far right campaign

Political Scrapbook (repost) | 28.06.2013 00:41 | Anti-racism | Other Press

One of the UK’s leading children’s cancer charities are refunding money donated by EDL supporters after leader Tommy Robinson used the plight of a two year-old girl as a political cover for far-right activities.

As reported by Scrapbook this week, Robinson and his fellow leader Kevin Carroll planned to march past the East London Mosque towards the scene of Lee Rigby’s murder in Woolwich – under the pretext that they were raising money for a child suffering from Neuroblastoma.



Robinson even attempted to link the girl’s plight with immigration:

“There’s over 80 million people registered on the NHS in this country [sic] and there’s only 60 million people in this country. So we have NHS tourists coming in and using our NHS and we have English girls not getting funded to save their lives.”

With an ongoing programme of fundraising activities planned by the EDL, the Neuroblastoma Cancer Children’s Alliance (NCCA UK) clearly thought better of becoming the official charity of the far-right group. The NCCA become the second charity to reject EDL donations after Help For Heroes refused money in the wake of the murder of Lee Rigby.

You can make an EDL-free donation to the appeal by clicking here.

UPDATE: Full statement from NCCA UK

“The Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance is politically neutral and, as such, is not associated with the EDL and its fundraising activities. Ultimately, it is our goal to prevent families like Amelia-Mae’s being in the position of having to fundraise desperately to pay for treatment abroad. The NCCA UK will continue its efforts to help families access available treatment while making more options available here in the UK through its INBRC research collaborative. The NCCA UK has offered to reimburse Amelia-Mae’s appeal with the money raised by by Tommy Robinson so far (£5798.87) from the charity’ general funds.”

The little girl won’t lose out — the charity are reimbursing the EDL money for her campaign from the charity’s central funds.

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So what will Tommeh do with...

28.06.2013 07:17

£5798.87?

"Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothin to gain except killin’ your brain"

Sniff sniff


this saturday

28.06.2013 08:47

despite robinson's bogus walk being banned (as if he could walk 17 miles!), their speakers banned, the charity rejecting them (as did Help for Heroes) and the whole thing being exposed as yet another ego tripping publicity stunt for him, the EDL are calling for a meet up at the site where rigby was killed on saturday. scroll down to post 13745:

 http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/edl-watch.262722/page-459





Malatesta
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The irrelevent fuckwits at casualties united

28.06.2013 09:36

are waiting on faceshit with jelly and ice cream for Nelson Mandela to die, hoping that their actions will be a crushing blow to the left.

Nope I didn't make it up


NF abuse 7 year-old girl in Liverpool

29.06.2013 12:40

Ever keen show what "real" hard men they are.......

 http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/racism-probe-after-national-front-4729201

"It’s hard to believe that so-called human beings can stoop to this sort of level"

Terry