More than a half a million pounds of taxpayers’ money was spent promoting the LGBT agenda in June, new figures have shown.
According to the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA), public bodies spent £554,000 in sponsorship on Pride events and LGBT-branded merchandise during ‘Pride Month’.
Earlier this year, police forces across England and Wales were accused of “wasting” tens of thousands on “woke nonsense” – such as LGBT flags, whistles and lip balm – between 2019 and 2022.
Bunting and glitter tattoos
The largest spender, at £126,700, was the Greater London Authority, with Surrey Council spending £93,065 – the second highest amount.
Local authorities and NHS Trusts funded from the public purse, among other things, rainbow lanyards, badges displaying staff pronouns and glitter tattoos.
The City of Wolverhampton Council admitted spending £620 on “3km of rainbow bunting”.
’New religion’
In June, historian and broadcaster Dr David Starkey hit out at the “damaging” wide-scale promotion of LGBT issues during ‘Pride’ month.
Speaking on GB News, Starkey – himself homosexual – described the ‘plastering’ of LGBT Pride flags across shops and banks during the summer as “bizarre”, adding: “We’ve decided that what was essentially 60s counter-culture is now mainstream and compulsory.”
Revd Dr Matthew Roberts of Trinity Church York, author of ‘Pride: Identity and the Worship of Self’, recently told The Christian Institute that Pride is fast becoming the UK’s new established religion.
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