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News broke yesterday that another disgraceful and dangerous loss of data had taken place at the MoD. The personal details of up to 1.7 million people who had applied to join the armed forces have been stolen. Even more astoundingly,...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 14th Oct 2008 (via tpa.typepad.com)
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Following the latest - and most shocking - revelations in the MPs' expenses saga, regarding Elliot Morley's claims for a mortgage that had already been paid off, the TPA have registered a formal complaint with the Metropolitan Police today. We...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 14th May 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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The latest revelations in the ongoing MPs’ expenses scandal revealing the indiscretions of the Tory front bench prove once and for all that the problem is a cross-party one, clearly so embedded in the culture of the House of Commons...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 11th May 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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If there is one overarching lesson for MPs in today's expenses revelations (other than "Stop claiming money that you don't deserve") it is that there is no point blindly trying to keep these claims secret. It would have been better...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 8th May 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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Councillors at disaster-prone Stoke-On-Trent City Council are the latest in the West Midlands to be enjoying a mid-recession pay rise, as the total bill for their allowances is set to hit almost £1million by 2011 (The Sentinel). The 31% increase...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 5th May 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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Yesterday some of our Worcester activists met to discuss issues in their local area, and to do some leafleting in the city centre. We’re now looking to have a TPA supporter responsible for each Worcestershire council, and though Wychavon is...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 1st May 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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Value for money seems to be ‘en vogue’ right now. But yet another official publication has demonstrated evidence of a lack thereof. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published yesterday, looking into the Government’s £12billion spent on service...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 29th Apr 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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Wolverhampton Action Day Saturday 23rd August saw the first of our West Midlands Action Days in Wolverhampton, with activists turning out to petition the city council for lower council tax. The weather held out long enough for us to to collect almost 100...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 26th Aug 2008 (via tpa.typepad.com)
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Repaying The National Debt. Not. These days you don't even get a nice certificate to keep A question we've been hearing a lot over the last few days is how on earth is the government ever going to repay all this debt it's taking on?...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 27th Apr 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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It seems that Dudley councillors will soon be laughing all the way to the bank as the Express & Star reveals that they’re in line for a 20% raise in their allowances despite the fact that many of their electorate...
submitted by TaxPayersAlliance on 24th Apr 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
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