Police forces across the UK have spent £66,000, or nearly $80,000, on products like rainbow-themed cars and flags to support the LGBTQ community, according to a report.
“Police chiefs have been caught red-handed spending money on nonsense,” Tom Ryan, a researcher at Taxpayers’ Alliance, told the Telegraph.
The Telegraph reported that 27 police departments in England and Wales spent £66,689 on rainbow-themed products between 2019 and 2022, according to data released under freedom of information laws.
The data, according to the Telegraph, found that South Wales police were the biggest spenders, spending more than £24,000, or roughly $29,000, on T-shirts, badges, pens, whistles, flags, water bottles and even forks with the rainbow theme.
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A police car during London Gay Pride 2019 on July 6, 2019 in London, England.
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Kent Police spent second place more than £8,000, or roughly $9,600, on rainbow whistles, pens, pencils, lanyards and other items.
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Other departments spent funds to decorate cars with rainbow-themed decals, on items called “fuzzy rainbow bugs,” as well as for fans and stickers.
The National Police Chiefs Council has previously said that rainbow-themed patrol vehicles act as “hate crime cars” and encourage the public to report hate crimes, including postings on social media, according to the Telegraph.
Police officers take part in the 30th anniversary of Brighton & Hove Pride LGBTQ+ Community Parade on August 6, 2022 in Brighton, UK.
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The Taxpayers Alliance, a non-partisan group that advocates for lower UK taxes, criticized the spending, saying crime is rising and the funds should be used to bolster public safety.
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“With crime on the rise, it will bring little comfort to Brits to know that bobbies are rigged with rainbow goods,” Ryan told the Telegraph. “Police forces should stop this senseless spending and focus funds on the front lines.”
A Gay Pride Parade spectator holding a small gay rainbow flag during the Gay Pride Parade in 2017.
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Several institutions in the UK have come under fire in recent months for allegedly embracing “wake-up culture”, including London’s transport agency after it published new guidelines last year for staff banning words like “bicycles”. ” and “accident” for a more welcoming and inclusive use. idiom.
The director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, Nile Gardiner, told Fox News Digital at the time that the widespread “wokism” in the country is a “nefarious destructive ideology.”
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“The rise of Wokism in the UK is completely ridiculous. It is a nefarious destructive ideology promoted by the far left but embraced by a large number of British institutions. And it has no place in British society. It is hugely divisive and fundamentally unsound. British,” he said.
