Tax Payers Alliance

TPA get stung again over inaccurate figures….

Mick Fealty on September 25, 2009, 8:35 pm

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Lest Matt or any of the guys over at the Taxpayer’s Alliance think I have some kind of agenda, let me re-assure them I don’t. The topline of their previous ‘research’ that the Government was paying lobbyists to lobby government is, if true, important work. Particularly in Northern Ireland where the public sector employment steals much of the oxygen from the private sector. That’s why it’s important that if you are going to have a punt at bursting that particular …

Why has the British MSM forsaken their vital ‘crap detectors’?

Mick Fealty on August 17, 2009, 6:32 pm

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Mark asks why does a ginger group like the Taxpayers Alliance get so much coverage in the UK press. I’m tempted to offer the trite response that it’s simply because the Brits are too thick to tell the difference between sound social science and yet another dodgy dossier. But that would not only be a grave disservice to the intelligence of the great British public, but to the wily coruscation of the Taxpayer’s Alliance: not least because they are smaller, …

Taxpayers Alliance’s cooked up research..

Mick Fealty on August 4, 2009, 4:31 pm

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I see Chris Hope, my old mucker on the Telegraph, has got a hold of the latest broadside from the Taxpayer’s Alliance on government spending. Interestingly he repeats the TPA’s claims that Stratagem, the Northern Ireland company public affairs company who helped us put together last year’s Slugger Awards, was paid a whopping £900,000 by Scottish Enterprise. Only they weren’t. It seems the TPA in its eager campaign to rid us of the government funding of lobbyists (as opposed to …