Is the maddie fund.... now a secret fund

[Erngath]

Most definitely not!!

That is in your opinion, not mine.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Not absurd at all.
1. you do not know what happened to MBM . therefore you do not know if those parents feel compassion.
2. you do not know what the population of Portugal believe.

There could be many factors for many Portuguese withdrawing support to that family.

The best one being  crying wolf to the UK press not long after MBM was announced 'missing'abducted' by stating: the police were doing nothing and they were both left to look for their daughter by themselves?  shame on them after all the hours people put in searching.

They (along with a fan base) went on to slag off the police, the staff at MW, the neighbours, and insinuated the place wasn't safe for families and children. Now we even have them trying to take the whole of Portgual to ECHR!

It is everyones fault but theirs...

and 

1) Angelo stated as fact that the McCanns have no compassion for Madeleine- based on what?
2) Thanks for making the point that the people of Portugal would not be welcoming towards the McCanns for whatever reason.

[Miss Taken Identity]

But how the Fund is managed and what they spend their money on is your business is it?

Probably not... but it just gives people the opportunity see on an open forum - something else to the acting suspicious list- they cannot be trusted in other words.

They said one thing - did another.

[Erngath]

They would now be welcome in Portugal had they shown the slightest compassion for their missing child.

I assume from this post that you believe their child was abducted, woke and wandered, fell off a sofa and was got rid off and this  much loved and wanted child was quickly dismissed without a compassionate thought.?
How bizarre!

[Miss Taken Identity]

1) Angelo stated as fact that the McCanns have no compassion for Madeleine- based on what?
2) Thanks for making the point that the people of Portugal would not be welcoming towards the McCanns for whatever reason.

Could you please stop re writing words I did not type. I never said the people of Portugal would not be welcoming of the McCanns. YOU said that.

I highlighted some reasons why many....not ALL. 

 The fund is their stash I wish them well with it, In hope it brings them untold happiness! 

   Some way to earn a few millions though...

[Erngath]

That is a flippant response.  There are many ways the parents of a missing child can inspire local people to help in the hunt and that doesn't require knocking on doors or looking down culverts.

Possibly Amarals book and documentaries put paid to any hope of engaging the local people to do so.
Very sad.

[slartibartfast]

do you understand why it couldnt be a charity

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Charity Commission revealed several emails, telephone calls and a telephone conference between BWB and the Charity Commission about the possibility of charity status, for the then unincorporated company, between Monday afternoon May 14 and Tuesday May 15.

BWB emailed Alice Holt, Head of Legal Services (Status and Advice) at 9.39 pm on Monday evening with draft documents for the company as a charity. The email stated there was to be a press launch of the Foundation on Wednesday May 16 and that they awaited instructions on how the founders proposed to operate.

The minutes of the telephone conference held between BWB and the Charity Commission on the morning of Tuesday May 15 record that Alice Holt would look at revising the draft document to a form more acceptable to the Commission. The minutes also record that Commission official Kenneth Dibble was concerned that the press conference set for the next day might send out confused messages to the public unless it was settled what the fund could and could not be used for.

At 1.10 pm on May 15 the Charity Commission received an email from BWB saying their clients were likely to go the ordinary company route rather than pursue charity status. When that email was received Ms Holt was just finalising her promised revisions to the documents submitted to her the previous day. She sent her revised document anyway at 1.28 pm. To meet the Fund launch date of May 16, the McCanns had obviously decided to abandon the apparently hopeful charity negotiations in order to meet the deadline for same day company incorporation. Documents must be filed by 3pm for the company to be incorporated on that day.

[jassi]

You made the initital claim the the McCanns put the bucket in the foyer......not me.
I don't have to post a cite for the negative of your post.
It's up to you to prove your statement or withdraw your statement.
A cite please that the McCanns placed the bucket in the foyer.
If you can provide that cite, I will accept your proof.

There is this -

[Erngath]

Could you please stop re writing words I did not type. I never said the people of Portugal would not be welcoming of the McCanns. YOU said that.

I highlighted some reasons why many....not ALL. 

 The fund is their stash I wish them well with it, In hope it brings them untold happiness! 

   Some way to earn a few millions though...

Do you have a cite proving that they personally have earned millions.
Can you prove that they personally have used thse millions in the pursuit of what you wish for them

[Erngath]

There is this -

Really and that proves what?

[jassi]

Really and that proves what?

Proof of a bucket

[Vertigo Swirl]

Could you please stop re writing words I did not type. I never said the people of Portugal would not be welcoming of the McCanns. YOU said that.

I highlighted some reasons why many....not ALL. 

 The fund is their stash I wish them well with it, In hope it brings them untold happiness! 

   Some way to earn a few millions though...

So do you think that generally speaking the Portuguese would have been welcoming to the McCanns if they’d gone back to Portugal to start knocking on doors indefinitely?

[Miss Taken Identity]

Do you have a cite proving that they personally have earned millions.
Can you prove that they personally have used thse millions in the pursuit of what you wish for them
IMO your post is libellous.
Although I am sure you will justify it.

The first year accounts are on another thread by Alice.Fund Income:  in'millions'

I have no intentions of justifying what you have written, it makes no sense!

[Erngath]

The first year accounts are on another thread by Alice.Fund Income:  in'millions'

I have no intentions of justifying what you have written, it makes no sense!

And your posts always make complete sense to me.

[Erngath]

I don't have to prove anything

Very true but Kizzy should.