Wednesday, 6 January 2010

more newsPensioners in Swansea are reportedly buying books from charity shops for just a few pence each and taking them home for fuel. With temperatur

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Andrew Nutt said...

Pensioners in Swansea are reportedly buying books from charity shops for just a few pence each and taking them home for fuel. With temperatures plummeting and energy costs on the rise, thick books such as encyclopaedias are said to be particularly sought after. Jonathan Stearn, energy expert, said: “If pensioners are taking such desperate measures to heat their homes it is shocking. With more pensioners dying from the cold every year, this shows Labour policy is failing the most vulnerble”

Tory tax allies 'subsidised' by the taxpayer, taxpayers' Alliance accused of using charitable arm to claim gift aid on donations from wealthy backers. A campaign group which claims to represent the interests of ordinary taxpayers is using a charitable arm which gives it access to tax relief on donations from wealthy backers.
The Conservative-linked Taxpayers' Alliance, which campaigns against the misuse of public funds, has set up a charity under a different name which can secure subsidies from the taxman worth up to 40% on individuals' donations. In one example, Midlands businessmen said they channelled funds through the Politics and Economics Research Trust at the request of the Taxpayers' Alliance after they asked the campaign group to undertake research into policies which stood to damage their business interests. The arrangement allowed the Taxpayers' Alliance to benefit from Gift Aid on the donations, a spokesman for the donors said.
The Taxpayers' Alliance appears to be exploiting the taxpayer rather than protecting their interests as they claim to do. This body ought not to be subsidised to pursue its political goals. They have now become properly the non-taxpayers' alliance.
Then comes a article by Wayne David MP on a book produced by Aneurin Bevan. Mr David is fooling nobody with this article because Aneurin Bevan’s old left Labour party is a distant memory to Mr David’s right wing Tony Blair, New Labour party. A party that sit’s back and watch children and pensioners live in poverty.

6 January 2010 12:36

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