Poverty NGO or Labour stooge?

While I worked at DfiD, officials were very keen to disabuse me of my suspicion that some NGOs are in fact not focused on a politically-neutral campaign to end worldwide poverty but are instead extensions of the Labour movement. They may be staffed by Labour supporters, run by ex-Labour advisers or just be used to working with a Labour government; but they were not corporately aligned in any way. Or so I was told. And I was happy to believe it.

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But what is this? War on Want and the Jubilee Debt Campaign – two supposedly internationally-focused NGOs – are said to have joined forces with the protest organisation UK Uncut to fight the Coalition Government’s deficit reduction. As the Guardian reported: “In a sign of UK Uncut’s expanding popularity, they have secured the backing of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, and of War on Want.”