Charity may begin at home, but it ends with Cherie

Like taking candy from a baby (with cancer)....


Nice Pearls. I wonder how much they cost.

This charity work malarky is beginning to look like quite a lucrative gig.

CHERIE BLAIR'’S charity speaking tour of Australia, for which she was paid a reputed £102,000, was mired in fresh controversy yesterday.

So what if a few more cancer riddled children die... As long as Cherie gets her cut.

Only A$16,000 (£6,774) was given to the charity to help dying children, with the rest divided between the costs of staging the dinner, paying Mrs Blair and Max Markson, the multimillionaire public relations organiser. Mrs Blair'’s £17,000 fee for the engagement dwarfed the sum received by the charity.

What a money grabbing, self-serving, greedy cow. As a result of her dubious remuneration tactics, the charity involved is now facing a fund raising ban and may well have to shut down.

Now the state government of Victoria is threatening to ban the Children'’s Cancer Institute Australia from any more fundraising within the state. Under Victoria state law a charity must receive at least 60 per cent of funds raised in an appeal on its behalf. Yet the Melbourne dinner resulted in less than 9 per cent for the charity.

That is quite a legacy you are leaving in your wake Cherie. Keep up the good charity work. At this rate there will be no charities left to give money to. How will you supplement your income then?

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