Daily Mail readers boycott the RNLI over its overseas work – only 5 replies you need

John Plunkett. Updated September 16th, 2019

You’ve probably seen the Daily Mail story today about the RNLI helping to save lives overseas as well as in the UK and Daily Mail readers are predictably outraged.

And here are just some of the furious comments it generated on the Mail hate, sorry, website.

And these are the only 5 replies you need.

The Daily Mail and their readers are a bunch of monkey flapjacks.
Balls to them, i've just become a member and donated to the @RNLI, you can too via this link – https://t.co/WHnQVcxs94 #RNLI_disgrace #RNLI pic.twitter.com/JL8euZEaPI

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) September 16, 2019

I wonder if you'd still boycott the RNLI if you were wet and desperate and too far from land to swim Katie. Have a little compassion and decency

— Otto English (@Otto_English) September 15, 2019

Anyone having a problem with teaching kids to swim in a country which is about 10 metres above sea level and regularly floods needs to accept that they have something missing in them. A lack of humanity. #RNLI_disgrace #RNLI

— Klaus Von Trapp (@Klaus_Von_Trapp) September 16, 2019

Laughing at people replying to that RNLI tweet saying they are going to boycott it.

"*gasps for air* NO. GO AWAY. LEAVE ME TO DROWN. I'M BOYCOTTING YOU FOR HELPING TRAIN PEOPLE TO HELP KIDS IN BANGLADESH LEARN TO SWIM, YOU PC MONSTERS *last words as drowns* I'VE OWNED THE LIBS"

— Martin Belam (@MartinBelam) September 15, 2019

If you’re cancelling your @RNLI subscription because they dare to save lives abroad, then you are a first class Bell End. That is all. #RNLI #RNLI_disgrace

— Phil Chadwick (@PhilChadwick81) September 16, 2019

Oh, and not forgetting this.

ALSO: It is worth pointing out that Viscount Rothermere, their owner, lives in France so he can avoid paying tax. The Mail's parent company are based out of Bermuda for the same reason. The RNLI spend 2% of their income on anti-drowning measures abroad.https://t.co/q2SAcquWGJ

— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) September 16, 2019

Here’s what the RNLI had to say.

In response to the @MailOnline & @thetimes:we are proud of our international work. Its saves (mostly kids') lives. And we haven't kept it secret – it's in our annual report, on our website and in the media. We spend just 2% of our expenditure on this work: https://t.co/STztOxG1OP

— RNLI (@RNLI) September 15, 2019

And you can read their response in full here.

To conclude …

If you are genuinely angry that the RNLI may have been spending money preventing children from drowning because those children were not in the UK, there is a howling void where your soul should be.

— Seán Jones QC (@seanjonesqc) September 15, 2019

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