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Thursday
Mar052009

Raising a glass to the TaxPayers' Alliance

Just off to attend a champagne reception to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the TaxPayers' Alliance. I can't think of many pressure groups that have enjoyed so much publicity in recent years.

Perhaps their biggest coup was to provoke THIS attack by the Guardian's Polly Toynbee. You know you've arrived when New Labour's "fairy godmother" writes:

Day after day an insidious poison is fed into the nation's veins, spreading anger and cynicism about everything in the public sector. Nothing works, billions are wasted, public servants of every kind are pointless jobsworths feathering their nests and twiddling their thumbs. Behind this campaign is the Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA), which claims an average of 13 hits a day in the national media.

Tonight's event also features the launch of The Great European Rip-Off, a new book by David Craig and Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TPA (available on Amazon HERE). I can't imagine what that's about ...

Reader Comments (4)

I'll just remind you of the Two Ronnies joke. Civil Servants have been banned from looking out of the windows in the morning.

So they have something to do in the afternoon.

March 5, 2009 at 17:31 | Unregistered CommenterDave Atherton

Nice one, Dave. Thanks for your good wishes re UKIP.

March 5, 2009 at 18:18 | Unregistered CommenterMargot Johnson.

I might be showing my ignorance here, but how come in the recession of the 80's there was no animosity against the wages of public v private workers.
My point being is that we didnt have a bursting foreign poupulation explosion back then and there wasnt a word about unsustainable pensions or that they couldnt be afforded to sustain.
Now that we are overpopulated with workers that we were told are necessary to maintain pensions, they are telling us the opposite.

March 6, 2009 at 9:53 | Unregistered Commenterann

"Ironically...the tax burden has actually gone up since 2004..." Am I the only one who thinks that the congrats should be a tad muted?

March 6, 2009 at 21:46 | Unregistered CommenterJoyce

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