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The National Council for Voluntary Organisations are up in arms today at the prospect of charities facing cuts in the amount of taxpayers’ money they receive.

Did they seriously not see this coming? Even if all of these charities were blinkered enough to believe that public spending would never have to fall, they broke fundamental rules of good sense by becoming so reliant on the state in the first place.

Apparently, the taxpayer is now the source of a staggering 1 in 3 pounds going to charities.

That raises serious concerns about the co-opting of charities by the state - like when the NSPCC, which receives EU money, decided to back the Lisbon Treaty, for example.

Worse, this reliance on Government has poisoned the whole mindset of many charities. There’s no doubt that they are faced by a crisis, but what is the NCVA doing with today’s media exposure?

They’re complaining about the inevitable spending cuts, rather than trying to make things better by appealing for donations. As well as selling their independence, they have abandoned their initiative.

It’s time charities returned to being charities, rather than being just another arm of the state.