Tag Archives: Taxpayers’ Alliance

Hypocrisy of the highest order

19May09 – 11:18

That would be from the Taxpayers' Alliance. After all, no pressure group expends more energy (and expensive resources) demanding transparency from others.
In order to legitimise their ludicrous claim to somehow represent taxpayers, the Taxpayers' Alliance takes all steps to cover up it's donor list and ensure that we have little idea of where they get [...]

By Paul Evans | Posted in Libertarians | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Context

07Mar09 – 12:10

In the week in which we learned that Sir Fred Goodwin would walk off with a pension of £700,000 a year, the Odious Taxpayers' Alliance have decided to focus upon the gold-plated pensions (average £3,800 per year) that are awarded to local authority staff. As Unison have put it, more tin-foil than gold plating. Via [...]

By Paul Evans | Posted in Fact-checking | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Leading Lights on Lower Corporate Taxes

04Feb09 – 14:03

Given the Derek Draper - Taxpayers Alliance smackdown (with various comrades chipping in) going on at the moment I thought it might be worth taking a closer look at a country that actually followed the TPA’s low tax prescription.

By Andreas Paterson | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Morning roundup, Wednesday 4th February 2009

04Feb09 – 08:59

The Times reveals that Cameron takes a gamble on a £200k donation from a slot machine billionaire, shortly before the entire shadow front bench decide dthat the delights of the Bognor casino scene need to be enshrined on the Ainshunt Freedoms list (in between MPs rights to turn their offices into whorehouses unmolested by the hand of plod, and the Collected Speeches of St Davis of Magnercarter). Orwell would have been proud.

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