UK taxpayers are not happy. They just found out that their government has been paying for BLM UK. The founder of BLM UK, Natalie Jeffers, received a fifty thousand dollar grant from the government intended for the foreign aid budget. She organized the shutdown of two airports and a main thoroughfare last month and she organized shut down of the airport over climate change, which she says affects blacks more than whites.
The protest was made up of almost all white people and jeffers herself didn’t attend because she went to a feminist conference at a luxury resort in Brazil. Ironically, the flight used 3.2 tons of carbon dioxide or about 1/3 of the pollutants racked up by the average Briton in an entire year. Jeffers claims she didn’t use any of the taxpayer money for her BLM activism.
A source close to International Development Secretary Priti Patel said she was angry and would be “demanding to know why the courses were ever commissioned in the first place”.
The source, who called the spending “rubbish”, added that it was “tough to see how this delivers for taxpayers.
“Practically helping vulnerable women in Nigeria is the kind of thing people expect and want our aid to do, yet it’s telling that some in the aid industry think the way you do this is [by] buying some online activists’ course off a professional campaigner in Brighton.”
The DfID confirmed: “In 2015 one of our subcontractors commissioned Matters of the Earth to produce small-scale and specific pieces of work. The money was not for the support of any wider agendas.”
Ms. Jeffers reportedly said she did not use DfID funds for Black Lives Matter.