It's a strange situation this, I'll be interested to find the reasoning behind it.
The fact that Labour also supported the charity makes it not a party issue.
Was this 'charity' providing services that would otherwise be under government control? Social care for children etc?
It's not unusual for the government to give money to a charity to provide a service to the public.
Close to home Albyn Housing is an example of a charity that receives government funding to provide housing. Is this a bad thing? Something the government should be ashamed of? I doubt many would think so.
As I said before, I'm interested to see what happens here, but I don't have a problem with government funding to charities, and I don't have a problem with the government putting conditions on that funding or requesting organisational change. I'm not going to jump the gun here.
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