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The Taxpayers Alliance: a Tory front group...

Time for a quick reminder photo:

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Taxpayers Alliance Rally 2009
 
KeyboardJockey said:
Leaving aside the question of whether the TA is a Tory front I feel that it is a valid aim to question how much tax is being taken off of the average taxpayer and what sort of value the taxpayer is getting for his or her money.

I see no problem in an organisation pointing out how government wastes money on failed schemes including pfi and jobs for the boys while reducing essential services.

Why shouldn't we feel that we should have value for money when it comes to tax and services?
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disingenuous post is disingenuous.
 
Hayek's philosophy handbook doesn't match his green and blue tie and handkerchief. Is that a 'golly' wig he's wearing? Blondie looks like he's borrowed Wyatt Earp's wig.
 
Awesome Wells said:
Priceless. Fucking priceless.

says.it.all
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I heard that they criticised the guardian as the guardian may also avoid tax, not sure if they do or don't tbh, but the guardian isn't called the tax payers alliance, maybe they should change their name to the tax avoiders alliance, just to being some honesty to the proceedings like
 
Weird that Osborne said that off shore tax cunts can opt in to pay 25 grand one-off and will be left alone after that this week isn't it?
 
nightbreed said:
They remind me of The Inbetweeners but without the humour.
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Oh contrare mon frere, they have a great sense of humour. Check this shit out:

Um we’re here today to let people know um that free market economy of capitalism is not all evil it’s when it done irresponsibly by irresponsible governments who has let the bank of England depower itself so we’re here just to show support for the free market which under responsible government is a very, very effective form of economy
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the boss of this tory front group matthew elliot as a really macho name when you see his photo he looks a right prick and by right i mean well to the right:D
 
Interesting thing about TA is how much coverage they get for such a small group. Always have reps on the heavier-weight BBC discussions. Moden media is highly vulnerable to this sort of operation. Nick Davies "Flat Earth News" is superb reading on all this.
 
Polly Toynbee slapped these rightwing freaks to pieces in the Guardian yesterday. She also draws attention to the goebbelsian double think of Master Cameron's speech:

What a long time a year is in politics. Since then the Cameron and Conservative myth machine, aided by their progeny, the Taxpayers' Alliance, have rewritten last year's history. In a breathtaking logical somersault they have persuaded people that state extravagance is to blame for the deficit, not reckless banks. "It is more government that got us into this mess!" David Cameron declared in last week's speech, to cheers from the conference. No, it was not. Only a lot more government and mountains more taxpayers' cash got us out of a mess caused by runaway financiers.

It took upside-down logic to blame the victim: the swollen state became the cause, not the result of the bankers' recession. It must be cut, shrunk, shrivelled and taught austerity while its featherbedded denizens are dosed with corrective medicine. If the Conservatives win, that's what Cameron and Osborne promise loud and clear, cutting both the size of the state, which means jobs – and cutting pay.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/12/conservative-public-sector-cuts

Jesus these posh fucking vermin make me so mad. Telling people on 18 k, some of whom have families to support and mortgages to pay off, that they need to gobble up the shit sandwiches prepared by other rich posh fucking ccunts and paracites - it really is beyond chutzpah. In a vaguely just world somebody who advocated such a thing would soon find themselves in an organic relationship with their nearest ditch pretty sharpish. Not in Broken Britain however, apparently such proposals are considered to be an acceptable manifesto for Government.

p.s. christ, I hate Comment is Free commenter scum - what is it about the internet being a magnet for such rightwing arseholes?
 
Does Vodafone fund the TaxPayer's Alliance?

Well, do they? :hmm:

When I rang their media enquiries line on 07795 084 113 about a comment on Vodafone's £6bn of tax evasion, "We'll call you back" - I am still waiting.

Also on their website the only reference to Vodafone tax evasion is from a commenter.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...ance.com+vodafone&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Picture Update.

David Bellamy is guest of honour

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Opposing job losses :confused:

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TaxPayers Alliance rep with new Guardian columnist Tim Montgomerie

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It's cost-effective to cut the number of t-shirts he owns to one. The market demands that he should make efficiency savings, reducing the amount of money spent on t-shirts and on time spent every day choosing which t-shirt to wear, leving him free to invest time and moeny into other services, such as Ayn Rand and Hayek books. Unfortunately, only owning one t-shirt meant that he did tend to smell a bit, but there's a recession on and we've all got to tighten our belts, nobody should expect libertarians to smell great 100% or even 50% or 25% of the time as we've been used to for the last 50 years - we've been living way beyond our means in that regard. Perhaps when the deficit is paid he can increase his t-shirt spending again, but in the mean time we should be prepared to accept a certain amount of discomfort for a greater good.
 
taffboy gwyrdd said:
Interesting thing about TA is how much coverage they get for such a small group. Always have reps on the heavier-weight BBC discussions. Moden media is highly vulnerable to this sort of operation. Nick Davies "Flat Earth News" is superb reading on all this.
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Heh. I complained to the BBC about a debate they had on You and Yours (R4 for those who don't listen to it) - they had a Taxpayers Alliance rep on but with no reference to the fact that the TA is a partisan political organisation. Initially they fobbed me off but when I kept the emails going I ended up with the producer of Y&Y ringing me back and being very chummy, wanting to smooth my ruffled feathers. It's against the BBC's Charter to knowingly use partisan groups without revealing their true beliefs - my point was the (obvious one) that the TA is not representing taxpayers.

Anyway - anyone interested in this group should check out this site if they haven't already found it - http://www.taxpayersalliance.org/
 
frogwoman said:
It's cost-effective to cut the number of t-shirts he owns to one. The market demands that he should make efficiency savings, reducing the amount of money spent on t-shirts and on time spent every day choosing which t-shirt to wear, leving him free to invest time and moeny into other services, such as Ayn Rand and Hayek books. Unfortunately, only owning one t-shirt meant that he did tend to smell a bit, but there's a recession on and we've all got to tighten our belts, nobody should expect libertarians to smell great 100% or even 50% or 25% of the time as we've been used to for the last 50 years - we've been living way beyond our means in that regard. Perhaps when the deficit is paid he can increase his t-shirt spending again, but in the mean time we should be prepared to accept a certain amount of discomfort for a greater good.
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lol
 
Jeff Robinson said:
Time for a quick reminder photo:

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Taxpayers Alliance Rally 2009
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Just on this, I think it's actually a Libertarian Alliance/Freedom Association counter-rally to the April 2009 anti-G20 protests.

It's not the TaxPayers Alliance but the two on the left Tim Aker and Mark Wallace work in a paid capacity for the TaxPayers Alliance.

The two on the right are Felix Bungay and Nic Conner.

Tim Aker in this video has a copy of the Freedom Association's magazine Freedom Today.

 
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