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Corries Catherine criticised for donating to 'wrong' charity
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4801734/Catherine-Tyldesley-Family-Fortunes10k-to-prisoners-families.html
I honestly honestly fail to see the problem here. it's not as if she is donating to criminals so they can actually commit a crime but trying to help people who are also victims. I also find it horrible they are bringing James into this.It's just unfair and wrong imo and if she wants to donate to them she can.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4801734/Catherine-Tyldesley-Family-Fortunes10k-to-prisoners-families.html
I honestly honestly fail to see the problem here. it's not as if she is donating to criminals so they can actually commit a crime but trying to help people who are also victims. I also find it horrible they are bringing James into this.It's just unfair and wrong imo and if she wants to donate to them she can.
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Who are we to condemn what charity she chooses? It doesn't sit well with me that they're bringing James into matters either. If she was donating to the prisoners themselves I could easily understand the criticism, but that's not the case is it?
They should all be giving money to the victims of their crimes, not the other way round. Their families have probably prospered with stolen money and goods anyway. Its ridiculous.
Why not go and raise some money for those charities yourself? She got the money and it is her choice and it can help people who need help and thats the main thing
We're probably supporting them already through our taxes by paying their benefits.
I'd rather give to a prison warders charity who have to put up with these people.
It's up to her what charity she donates what she won to.
If she donated it to a charity which supports poorly goldfish nobody would have batted an eyelash.
Dear oh dear. That's way too much logic and reason for DS. You really should know better
There is none, and that article is designed only to promote and feed ignorance and generate negativity. Good for her for choosing it and it sounds like a great org - http://www.outtheresfop.co.uk.
I hope the charity does speak out though because it's an opportunity for them to promote the work they do and maybe, who knows, dilute some of the apalling ignorance and prejudice that's out there, as evidenced in both that article and the twitter response.
Stuart Fergus, 37, condemned the donation as “ill advised”. Speaking just days after the 20th anniversary of two-year-old James’s appalling murder, he insisted: “There are so many more deserving charities. What about the victims’ families?”
Are they becoming rentagobs now? Absolutely nothing to do with them.
I agree. That family still have an open wound and will never find any sort of peace if the media keeps poking at the wound to generate headlines.
With regards the OP, it's her money and she can donate to whichever charity she sees fit. What it has to to with anyone else, I really don't know.
What a well researched and thought out quote! Well done. :rolleyes:
It's her money that she won fair and square and she is entitled to donate it to whomever she chooses. Fair play to her. It has got diddly squat to do with James Bulger or any other high profile case. FFS.
More so than donating to cute little sad animals with pooey bottoms.
Absolutely. Good on her for donating to them I say.
Yeah, I admit I completely fail to see the woman's reasoning here. It is her money and she can support who she wants but picking the charity she has just seems bonkers to me.
I think some people are from another planet, to be honest.
(I have no idea who this person is as I don't watch Corrie, if that makes any difference when it comes to how my opinion might be taken...not that I can see how it could)
I think that is unfair - I think they are wrong but understandably so. I can't imagine - mostly because as mum of a child only a year older than James was I don't want to think about it too much - what it's like to not only lose a child that little but lose to the vindictiveness of others and know that their last moments were full of terror and pain. I realise that Thompson and Venables acted that way because their own familiies were so disfuctional but if it was your child would you care about that - probably not.
I admire people like Gordon Wilson (father of Mari a nurse killed by the Eniskillen IRA bombing) who can see beyond the horrific destruction of their own child to try and solve the problem that caused it but appreciate that this may be beyond most people and with a very young child this may be even harder.
That said I think Catherine has done the right thing and the reaction does say a lot about public preduice - most people don't have the reasons that the Ferguses and Bulgers have to be so against it.
I don't think that's fair. I think recoiling from criminals is a much more natural reaction than the woolly liberal one.
Also, I consider myself pretty left leaning in politics but one thing I hate about the left is how some try and act like those who don't agree are below their own intelligence or are not wordly enough to understand where the more liberal view might stem from. It's the sort of attitude that makes people retreat further into any right-wing views they might have rather than getting them to see whatever light you want them to see.