Part of me thinks it's a shame that the RNLI didn't increase the default preset donation figure on their web site's donation page from £20 to £50, because they could have really cashed in after Nigel Farage's comments this week as people reacted by rushing to the RNLI web site and looked for the quickest, easiest way possible to throw some money in the organisation's direction.
The RNLI are one of those charities that conservatives and centrists and left-wingers alike used to approve of, groups of private citizens voluntarily taking responsibility for part of an activity that one night imagine an island nation would definitely need, yet which governments don't provide on the scale required. A shame the need to stoke a culture war has pushed right-wingers in this bizarre direction, where rescuing human beings from the risk of drowning at sea is deemed to be a political act rather than a humanitarian gesture.
Here's hoping the RNLI see a huge surge in fundraising this year.
[Via RT by Neil Gaiman]