An odd alliance

The Taxpayers’ Alliance inevitably has a lot of things to say on a wide range of subjects that involve the alleged misuse of public funding. They also possess a remarkable tendency to get their views publicised. However, their commentary in support of Labour clamouring over a non-declaration of farming subsidies by Kirsty Williams, Andrew RT Davies and Brynle Williams is decidedly an exercise in barrel-scraping.

More to the point (and aside from Labour’s own dicey record on public probity issues) such criticism is somewhat ironic coming from a self-appointed pressure group that has still not revealed the full extent of its own widespread funding sources.

There is also the continuing lack of clarity as to whether their former chief executive had effectively been given paid leave of absence so that he can head up a movement opposed to the AV system. We have no information as to whether this campaign is eligible for Electoral Commission funding but it would interesting to know the TPA’s views on whether taxpayers money should be put to such use.