Mrs Beckett does not deserve the honour of being elected Speaker after claiming £11,000 for her garden! Many pensioners in this country live on less than that amount a year. It is a disgrace. These Politicians are meant to be intelligent people with numeracy and literacy skills as being taken for granted, but it would [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tax’
Radical Powers for SNP Government
Can we trust the Scottish National Party Government to spend our money wisely? The potential for additional taxes is likely and will cost many Scottish residents dearly. Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, is due to meet David Cameron in London tomorrow to discuss the Calman Commission’s report. Both appreciate that it may be up [...]
Tax Payers Alliance launch campaign for private prosecutions of MP’s
As you may have already seen today, the TPA - backed by the Daily Mail - is launching a campaign for private prosecutions of MPs who may have broken the law in their expenses claims. The expenses scandal that has been exposed in recent days by the Telegraph cannot be dismissed simply by apologies, excuses or the waving [...]
Tax Payers Petition: Demand full transparency on MPs’ expenses
With the shocking abuses of taxpayers’ money revealed by the Daily Telegraph over the last few days, it has never been more important for taxpayers to be able to see exactly how MPs are spending our money. We have teamed up with Heather Brooke, the campaigning journalist who defeated the secretive Commons authorities in the High [...]
How to save £57.8 billion – Tax Payers Alliance and Dispatches
TPA and Dispatches reveal how to save £57.8 billion The TPA launch a new report showing that the Government could save £57.8 billion a year, £2,277 per family, by cutting structural waste in the public sector. The report was written by William Norton, a key author of the James Review in 2005, who revisited the [...]
Father Christmas Gordon Brown’s taxing Christmas
When you sit down to eat Christmas Lunch this year, give a few minutes thought to the taxation benefit pouring into the Government coffers. Yes, jobs are in jeopardy, wherever the mythical town of jeopardy may be, but it is in the very best interests of “Santa” Gordon Brown for everyone to blow their respective [...]


