Britannia Radio

Today we proudly launch the latest edition of the publication that started it all for the TaxPayers' Alliance: the Bumper Book of Government Waste. Our Research Director - John O'Connell - has found £120 billion that has been wasted on unnecessary projects, inefficient processes and lavish pay and perks. Our Chairman - Andrew Allum - notes in the foreword that "the £120 billion per year of wasteful spending that is itemised in this new Bumper Book of Government Waste amounts to £4,500 taken from each and every family in the UK unnecessarily. Enough to pay for a very exotic holiday." Another way to look at it is that the amount wasted is roughly equivalent to every penny of income tax paid by all but the highest earning one per cent of the population, as I wrote in a comment article for today's Times. However you look at it, it is a truly awesome amount of money that should be left in taxpayers' pockets. If you want to find out more about all of the ways that the Government wastes your money, click here to download the report.