EXPOSED: How much YOU’RE paying for global quangos

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The global quangos hitting your pocket
Our Global Quangos Uncovered ([link removed]) campaign reached its summit this week as we published a new factbook ([link removed]) , shining a light on the cost to British taxpayers of unaccountable international organisations.

Our new analysis shows the UK has handed over a whopping £85 billion to organisations like the World Health Organisation (WHO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and United Nations (UN) over the last 12 years. Despite these groups facing considerable criticism in recent months and years, we’re due to fork out £7.5 billion each year until 2027!
Responding to our findings ([link removed]) in the Sun on Sunday, former home secretary, Priti Patel, said: “The billions of pounds spent by ministers and civil servants is taxpayers’ money who will naturally think that their Government is throwing away their hard earned cash to unaccountable international organisations, with little scrutiny or oversight in terms of what this means for them.”

These organisations have a habit of expanding their briefs and lecturing on topics well outside their purview. This week I blogged about the WHO wanting health warnings in films and TV Shows like 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan ([link removed]) because certain characters might be lighting up. Another group in receipt of your cash is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This week they published a report saying women in the UK were the worst binge drinkers in the developed world ([link removed]) .

Whilst appearing on the BBC’s Politics Live (more on that later), our head of campaigns, Elliot Keck, called out this shoddy attempt to shame Brits enjoying a tipple ([link removed]) : “This is another case of the OECD, a global quango that is going well beyond its remit. They were set up to help economic development and international trade and it’s now beating British women over the head for daring to have two thirds of a bottle of wine once a month!”
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Hard working taxpayers will be wondering why on earth they are having to shell out billions of pounds every year, just to be hectored by international bureaucrats. You can download your copy of our Global Quangos Uncovered factbook here! ([link removed])

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TaxPayers' Alliance in the news
TPA on Politics Live

As mentioned earlier, Elliot joined the panel of Politics Live on the BBC on Thursday. Sitting down with MPs Bim Afolami and Rosie Duffield, along with journalist Susie Boniface, Elliot put the views of taxpayers front and centre on our national broadcaster.
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With calls for ministers to be given a “kick in the pants”, Elliot took aim at the high tax Tories ([link removed]) : “People like to talk of the Conservative Party as the party of low tax, they’ve trashed that record pretty devastatingly over the last few years… You’ve got a £13 billion windfall because you’ve been squeezing every drop out of taxpayers. If a kick in the pants means a cut to income tax, a cut to stamp duty, then I think the government does need it.”

You can watch the full episode here ([link removed])
Carol’s conundrum

Speaking of the beeb, our digital campaign manager, Joe Ventre, popped up on TalkTV, following the news that Carol Vorderman had left her BBC radio show for refusing to follow impartiality guidelines ([link removed]) .
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Joe didn’t mince his words ([link removed]) saying: “Anyone can see that what she did goes against what we all broadly know to be BBC rules on impartiality… A very basic expectation from TV viewers is that the broadcasting corporation that they’re paying for doesn’t espouse political opinions.”
There’s room to cut taxes

Rounding off a broadcast heavy week for the team, our media campaign manager (he’s clearly doing a good job), Conor Holohan, took to GB News, with some advice for the chancellor ([link removed]) about what to do with his new found fiscal headroom.
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As Conor explained to viewers across the country ([link removed]) : “Part of the reason we’ve seen this increase in headroom is because of the stealth taxes, the frozen thresholds that are eating up everyone’s pay rises… He could use that to cut income tax.” Hear, hear!
Blog of the week
Four takeaways from the King’s Speech

King Charles made history on Tuesday delivering the first King’s Speech in over 70 years. In this week’s blog ([link removed]) , our researcher, Jonathan Eida, brings us his four takeaways from the government’s stated plans.
Amidst talk of smoking bans and football regulators, as Jonathan says: “There was little for households bearing the weight of a 70-year high tax burden to feel overly enthusiastic about.”

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War on Waste
We all know roaming fees can run into the thousands when we go on holiday if we’re not careful, but few would think it ok to leave the bill at the door of taxpayers.

It seems this is one lesson ministers north of the border haven’t quite learnt as the SNP’s health secretary wanted to pay his almost £11,000 charge for roaming on his iPad from the public purse. Fortunately, a public outroar was enough to shame this minister into picking up the tab ([link removed]) himself. Elected representatives should be looking to save taxpayers’ money, not asking their constituents to bail them out.

Send me your examples of wasteful public sector spending (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Wasteful%20spending)

Benjamin Elks
Operations Manager

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