The very name “the TaxPayers’ Alliance” is a kind of trick. So far, it looks like a standard front organisation of the type the far left and corporate right have been sending out to greet credulous journalists for decades. Indeed, from Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave and a founder of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, down to IT staff, rightist activists bounced between the two. The Electoral Commission has vindicated his stance, but Stephen Parkinson, a Vote Leave director and aide to Theresa May, punished him by revealing Sanni was gay. The TaxPayers’ Alliance claims to defend the common man and woman from the overbearing state.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2018 18:56 UTC