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MIG wrote:

You misunderstand (or I was unclear) about where I felt that the myth
was.

My point was that that the kind of money that would allow a community
group (typically stereotyped as "black lesbians"*, regardless of what
they actually do, hence the myth) to book rooms for a year, and
therefore continue to exist, is tiny compared with the amount that any
politician claims on expenses in the same period.

Oh, OK. I thought the suggestion was that these groups didn't actually
exist and the money (albeit a tiny amount) is just
disappearing. Thanks for the clarification.

But the former is presented as throwing money away, while the latter
is presented as normal running costs.

Yeah. Vulnerable people make easy scapegoats for disguising a lack of
policies. :-(