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Charity commissioner to use speech to say there is a difference between ‘heated discussion’ and harassment or abuse Dame Julia Unwin, chairwoman of the Charity Commission, is expected to deliver the following remarks at the AGM today in central London, condemning the harassment and abuse of RNLI rescuers.

“I want to use this opportunity to condemn in the strongest terms the thuggery and intimidation that volunteers of the RNLI have faced over recent weeks – and indeed over months and even years.

“Charities must only do things that meet their purpose and objects.

“For the RNLI that means rescuing people in peril in the sea.

Totally, totally.

The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind.

They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way.

These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists.

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