George Osborne, the day before he got fired, signed a cheque for charities from the Libor banking fines.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/george-osborne-twitter_uk_57861365e4b08078d6e78705

Having worked in an employment charity from 2010-12, and seen the way charities were used as a cover for underinvestment, I find this pretty rich. Also, Osborne wrote the manifesto, planned the referendum, and heightened the fear about a financial apocalypse if Brexit were to happen.

It is worth reading 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' by Oscar Wilde. He talks about how Charity is inherently bad. It's not all that socialist, he bangs on about reviewers for a lot of it. I like this bit:

'Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life – educated men who live in the East End – coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.'

To be clear, I'm not a Corbynista, or a Labour member, or a Marxist, or a Thatcher hater. I thought before this that the Cox murder was very emotional for Labour, and I think cutting a cheque speaks to Osborne's mindset, that he sees himself as this nice guy, when it's clear that Austerity has taken so much money out of the country for six years. That's why he got fired.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/