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Originally Posted by Eric
As long as the charity is registered as "Official", or some such nonesense, and issues you an official receipt, you can claim. You can also claim part of your donations to a political party.
What I can't understand is why charity is necessary in wealthy countries such as the UK. Too many folks are being left behind. Too few have too much. The UK, like the US, has a massive gap between the poor and the wealthy. In England there is little social mobility, and this is exacerbated by the obvious class differnces. Most social problems have their roots in this inequality. Watch out for riots in major cities this summer. Those who have nothing to lose have everything to gain. The greed of the "haves" is probably what will precipitate a crisis. It happened in France in 1787. Charity is not enough. Equality and social mobility is what is needed. One only has to look at Denmark, for example, to see this.
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Think you've been away too long.
Last summers riots and looting attracted people across the social scale.
There were many prosecutions of people who came from backgrounds where they had good lifestyles, including many who were privately educated.
Same thing at our annual May Day riots, and most protests nowadays, there's very much a middle class weighting.
Which means that it's really nothing to do with 'poverty', or social mobility.