[maica]

As for expenditure, £150,000 was spent on the "Big Ben to Baghdad" bus - which travelled from London to Baghdad in 1999 - and about £60,000 on a sanctions-busting flight to Baghdad the following year.

A total of £80,000 was spent on the campaign's offices overlooking Trafalgar Square in central London, £35,000 was spent on three conferences, and £50,000 on sanctions-monitoring publications, publicity and advertisements

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Sadly, this is how a lot of 'charity' money gets spent.

50% or more on 'overhead'

A little bit on the designees.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I read yesterday that Galloway spent Christmas, 1999, with Tariq Aziz at Tariq's holiday place...
How nice.

[tictoc]

Sadly, this is how a lot of 'charity' money gets spent.

50% or more on 'overhead'

A little bit on the designees.

For this reason, I believe it is a good idea to give only to charities that have been operating for a long time, preferably decades, and been audited time and again, and given a clean bill of health.

I give to SOS Childrens' Villages, a charity originally founded by an Austrian but operating in 131 countries today. They provide a stable environment for orphans and other children who have had to leave their families. I trust them to spend the money wisely.