Liverpool’s taxpayers will be shocked to know they have to stump up a whopping £150,000 for…wait for it…a chess tournament.
This tale of incompetence started with the Liverpool Culture Company (LCC), a semi-private body, agreeing to pay for the European Chess Tournament, but reneged on the £100,000 deal.
Out of the blue, however, the North West Development Agency (NWDA), a taxpayer-funded quango, has emerged with £150,000 of taxpayers’ money to fund the tournament. What are they using, golden pawns?
But alas if you look closely enough you find this is yet another story of government bureaucrats going along hand in glove with each other to squander yet more taxpayers’ money.
Follow this trail if you will. The Liverpool Culture Company was meant to have funded the European Chess Tournament in Liverpool. The Chairman of the LCC is Bryan Gray. The Chairman of the NWDA now funding the tournament is Bryan Gray. The chief operating officer of the LCC is Bernice Law. The deputy chief executive of the NWDA is Bernice Law. Isn’t it odd that the same people are involved in spending your money on a chess tournament when a private body was meant to? You draw your conclusions from those links, but it seems to us that taxpayers’ money is being used where it shouldn’t be and far too much is being used on a mere chess tournament.
Feel free to email Bernice Law to find out why the taxpayer should foot the bill.
We should strongly expose this to the local papers. Send your letters to the Liverpool Daily Post:
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Liverpool,
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And the Liverpool Echo:
Letters Editor
The Liverpool Echo
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Liverpool,
L69 3EB,
United Kingdom
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