Feb 2010 02

New branch alert: West Yorkshire TaxPayers' Alliance is launched2

TAXPAYERS UNITE IN WEST YORKSHIRE TO FIGHT COUNCIL TAX INCREASES

  • Taxpayers in West Yorkshire are coming together to fight the year-on-year increases in council tax and national taxes and to hold local councils in West Yorkshire to account for their spending decisions.
  • Excesses in expenditure are causing a backlash in Yorkshire and a regional branch of the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has been established to gather support for the work of TPA nationally, to expand membership and develop local initiatives in the region.
  • The West Yorkshire Branch was recently established following a Public Meeting at the Village Hall in Eldwick near Bradford.

WYTPA Message from the Bernard Stone, Chairman of the West Yorkshire TaxPayers' Alliance:

One of our aims with this brand new branch is to help stamp out waste in local government and stop the constant ratcheting up of council taxes and other taxes.

Even in these difficult economic times one wonders how the authorities manage to think up new ways to spend money.   For example, recently the West Yorkshire Police Authority decided to make a number of additional appointments.   Not more police on the beat, but a team of ‘communicators’ to tell us what a good job our police are doing no doubt!

Only when the authorities see the public determination to take more determined measures against this waste will we begin to see results and we would like see people in Yorkshire supporting the excellent work being carried out by the central team of the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

If you live in West Yorkshire and would like to give us your active support, or, if it is not possible and can only give less active support, please make contact with us via the following ways:

Contact our Secretary Nigel Shaw on his mobile: 07711 768628 or our Chairman Bernard Stone at  3 Grange Park, Roundwood Rd, Baildon, Shipley, BD17 7JY or e-mail: [email protected]

Please also let us know of any friends or contacts who might be interested in helping.  Remember, even if you are unable to get about much there is much you can do to help us from the comfort of you own home with emails and letters.   Further we can keep you up to date with many developments in this field.

All good wishes, Bernard Stone

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  • Edward Devoy

    The only way to stop the abuse by our local authorities is to make the people in these organisations individually and collectively responsible for their actions/inaction.
    It sometime appears that they deliberately try to make our lives harder and harder with some of the cons that they pull.
    In my area, Barnsley MBC claim it will cost a couple of million to repair the roads after the current bad weather. We the people have paid in advance with the tax we pay on our cars which is called road tax but does not appear to be spent on the roads.
    If you remember, when BICC went bust most of the investors were local authorities, the same with the current icelandic crisis. While they are telling we the people they have no money to pay for services and roads and everything else they have our money in the bank. If we must pay again then let them take the money out of the bank to pay the bill. It just is not going to happen though, because that might just give the taxpayer a break, and why spoil a good system for screwing the taxpayer, just put up the council tax again.
    Demand “True Democracy in the UK” and take control from the politicians and the unelected hitlers that now run things for nobodys benefit but their own selfish greedy corrupt benefit.
    gopetition.com

  • Ray Winter

    Of interest to all UK residents and tax payers.
    If the following is true it is totally outrageous and it is about time The Queen dissolved Parliament before they reduce this Great country of ours to a state like Andorra.
    “Letter: UK soon to be a memory
    Tuesday 16th March 2010, 7:06AM GMT
    Letter: On March 5 our MPs took time off from awarding themselves more money in order to throw out the Lisbon Treaty (Referendum) Bill. This took away the British public’s last chance to have a say in whether the Queen should remain as the United Kingdom’s head of state or the United Kingdom cease to exist at all.
    When the Lisbon Treaty comes into effect the United Kingdom will be broken up.
    Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and London will be individual “regions” (states) in the United States of Europe.
    The rest of England will be divided into eight other states. Our Queen will have no state to be head of and our “President of the United States of Europe” will be Herman van Rumpoy (he has already been appointed).
    If we do not like what Herman van Rumpoy tells us to do there is no mechanism to displace him (even Hitler had to win an election).
    This situation has been sought eagerly by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party (Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty).
    The Conservative Party is too craven to oppose it (David Cameron and Ken Clarke approve of it).
    What a disingenuous end to the United Kingdom which was once believed to be the oldest democracy in the world.
    The British people who, together with the rest of the English-speaking world, have rescued Europe from evil dictatorships several times in the past, are now surrendering meekly to the European Commission in a craven manner our forefathers would never have considered. We should hang our heads in shame.
    Denis Allen”
    This Labour Party have done enough damage to this country and have to GO, NOW.
    Ignore The other parties, vote for Tax Payer Members at the forthcoming election. We have to look after ourselves.