Cast your minds back to the early stages of the recent General Election. Do you remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth and the anti-democratic machinations of the Remain faction both from Parliamentarians and others? Of course you do, we all do.

You may also remember how the Remain groups of various sorts often seemed as if they had money to burn? Their spokespeople were fully funded and had back up staff and their media output was very well polished. They looked professional and this may well be because some Remainer groups were funded by the professional Leftists of the Open Society Foundation.

According to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail back in early November, a Tory candidate, Andrew Percy, who won the Brigg and Goole seat in Lincolnshire, called for an investigation by the Electoral Commission into the activities of the Open Society Foundation. Mr Percy alleged that the Open Society Foundation had channeled money via a UK office of this organisation into a group that campaigned for pro-Remain tactical voting.

The Best For Britain group was campaigning to get Remain voters to vote tactically in the General Election and therefore, according to their reckoning, deny the Tories a majority. Now as we now know, this plan failed dismally. However, that still leaves us with the problem that an organisation run by the financier George Soros, an entity that is very Left wing, has given the impression that it had interfered with the election. The is in spite of claims by Mr Soros that his foundation gave donations that were not for party political or election purposes. Well, I don’t know about you but I think that campaigning to influence the election, which the Best For Britain group were trying to do, does count as party political or electoral purposes.

I believe that an investigation into the activities of the Open Society Foundation would be a very good thing and I hope that Mr Percy continues to press for this now that the new Government has taken office. I don’t believe that either he or others should drop this call now that the election is over. This is because the problems created by these left leaning grant making organisations go far far beyond one General Election or one group of Remain obsessives. They often fund groups that promote policies that run counter to that which many Britons would agree with or would voluntarily fund themselves. They provide employment for a great number of middle class Lefties and social justice warriors who, in some cases hold views and promote ideas, too often behind the scenes, that if put before the electorate would be rejected.

I would hope that any investigation that is carried out whether by the Electoral Commission or some other body would look not just at the activities of this one organisation, but at the wider and equally worrying issue of grant making bodies being involved in political activities. To give an example: Let us look at the very high profile anti-British, pro-migrant, pro-Islam group called Citizens UK. This group, which has also been heavily involved in the ‘refugees welcome’ movement, receives a lot of funding from international Left-leaning donors and from British grant making trusts that have been captured to a large extent by the Left.

Donors to Citizens UK include international ones such as the Prism Gift Fund and British ones like the Esme Fairbairn Foundation. These are just two examples of groups that in the first instance seem to have started out as SJW leaning and in the second have been captured by the SJW’s, that fund an influential Leftist and pro-Islam entity.

I fully support any investigation by the Government into the activities of groups like the Open Society Foundation and Citizens UK and its funders. There is an awful lot of money sloshing around in Leftistland and it’s about time that this money and the uses to which it is being put, was accounted for.