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#177 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: Farmers Market (Hatfield), 2/5/2009, 9:00
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Title:   Farmers Market (Hatfield)
 
Date:   Saturday 2 May 2009
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Location:   Farmers Market (Hatfield)
Notes:   Leafletting and public canvassing in Hatfield.
 
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#176 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:26 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 5/5/2009, 18:30
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Date:   Tuesday 5 May 2009
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
City County Postcode:   Hatfield, AL9 5AE
Phone:   07 947 035 000
Notes:   A general meeting for all local activists in Hertfordshire, to co-ordinate campaigns, events and latest developments.
 
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#175 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: Farmers Market (Hatfield), 2/5/2009, 9:00
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Next reminder:   The next reminder for this event will be sent in 10 days, 3 minutes.
Location:   Farmers Market (Hatfield)
Notes:   Leafletting and public canvassing in Hatfield.
 
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#174 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Fri Apr 3, 2009 6:27 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 7/4/2009, 18:30
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Date:   Tuesday 7 April 2009
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
City County Postcode:   Hatfield, AL9 5AE
Phone:   07 947 035 000
Notes:   A general meeting for all local activists in Hertfordshire, to co-ordinate campaigns, events and latest developments.
 
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#173 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: St Albans City Market, 4/4/2009, 9:00
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Title:   St Albans City Market
 
Date:   Saturday 4 April 2009
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Location:   St Albans City Market
Notes:   Leafletting and public canvassing at the St Albans City market.
 
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#172 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:24 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 7/4/2009, 18:30
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Date:   Tuesday 7 April 2009
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
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#171 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:55 am
Subject: St Albans City Market, 4/4/2009, 9:00
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Date:   Saturday 4 April 2009
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Location:   St Albans City Market
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#170 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Wed Mar 4, 2009 11:30 pm
Subject: Change of event 7-Mar-09
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In fact, we've changed our mind.

We are canvassing at Hatfield Farmer's Market - not the St Albans City Market
(as previously announced).

March thus returns to Hatfield, April goes to St Albans.

This pattern will repeat until June.

Martin

#169 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Mar 3, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: St Albans City Market, 7/3/2009, 9:00
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Date:   Saturday 7 March 2009
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Location:   St Albans St Peters Street Market
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#168 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 3/3/2009, 18:30
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#167 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:55 am
Subject: St Albans City Market, 7/3/2009, 9:00
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Location:   St Albans St Peters Street Market
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#166 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:26 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 3/3/2009, 18:30
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
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#165 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Tue Feb 3, 2009 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: General monthly meeting, 3/2/2009, 18:30
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Somewhat inevitably, adverse road conditions have required the
cancellation of the February TPA meeting.

The next meeting of Herts TPA is thus the Hatfield Farmer's Market
campaign stall at 09:00 Sat 7-Feb-09.

Kind regards

mjt


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#164 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Feb 3, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: Farmers Market (Hatfield), 7/2/2009, 9:00
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Date:   Saturday 7 February 2009
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Location:   Hatfield Market Square
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#163 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Mon Feb 2, 2009 9:08 pm
Subject: Re: General monthly meeting, 3/2/2009, 18:30
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In fact, this meeting might be postponed if few people can get to it!

If you minded to come along, please check this group at about 16:00 to
check whether it will proceed.

If it happens, a further post will appear to confirm it.

If there is no such post, please assume that the meeting has been
abandoned.


Kind regards

Martin





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#162 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:26 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 3/2/2009, 18:30
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#161 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:55 am
Subject: Farmers Market (Hatfield), 7/2/2009, 9:00
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#160 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 3/2/2009, 18:30
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
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#159 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:13 am
Subject: General meeting Herts TPA Tue 6-Jan-09
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Dear Member

This is a summary of points arising from the above meeting.

Martin T and Richard G attended.  Absences noted.

1. Find out from Tim Aker what recruitment numbers have been over the period of the Farmer's Market canvassing campaign.  MJT to obtain updated contact database for Hertfordshire to determine merit of a
future mailshot.

2. Strategy.  Herts TPA will focus on getting the TPA brand-name out, rather than organise recruitment campaigns.  Herts TPA should continue to canvass at markets, to write commentary to local papers (or via their blogpages) and to maintain own blogs (if members do so).

3. Market canvassing.  Next market canvassing will be Hatfield on Sat 7-Feb-09.  St Albans will get a dose of Herts TPA on Sat 7-Mar-09.  At St Albans, Herts TPA to review merit of doing both markets every other month.

4. Links to other organisations.  Herts TPA to review approaches to i) Federation of Small Businesses; ii) Institute of Directors; iii) Confederation of Business Industry.  Any local contacts that National TPA would like to offer would be gratefully received.

5. Note. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales is planning to run a project to enhance financial literacy of schoolteachers.  This will accomplish a major objective of the TPA without any involvement on the TPA's part.

6. Note. The demise of Instant Access Properties Limited and its trading wing Inside Track Seminars means that there should be a lot of seriously pissed off investors out there.  These are potentially back-seat activists.  Columnist Barry Tyler might be one such lead for National TPA to befriend.

7. Note.  Herts Chamber of Commerce is hosting a business breakfast briefing in Stevenage on Fri 16-Jan-09.  For ~£30, attendees can listen to  Paul Robinson, Director and Chief Sterling Strategist at
Barclays Capital.  Unfortunately, all of the places are now fully-booked.  A "credit crunch seminar" on 27-Jan-09 is also sold out.

Herts Chamber of Commerce have an interesting line-up of food-related seminars, which would suit a cash-rich, time-rich campaigner who likes a more gentle pace of marketing.  If you are interested, please look at the list of events on
http://www.hertschamber.com/pageview.php?page=trainingandevents_fulllist .




#158 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Sun Jan 4, 2009 5:55 pm
Subject: General meeting Herts TPA Tue 6-Jan-09
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Happy New Year!

The first general meeting of the Hertfordshire TPA will be at 18:30 on Tue 6-Jan-09 at The Hatfield Arms, Hatfield (opposite the railway station) (a.k.a. the usual place).

Activities up for discussion/modification/etc:

  • regular attendance at Hatfield Farmer's Market first Saturday monthly Winter, Spring and Autumn;
  • assistance for potential new branch in Stevenage;
  • pilot campaign (again) for the St Albans Saturday market, or Sunday farmers' market (2nd Sunday monthly);
  • blog update;
  • any other campaigns?

Kind regards

Martin


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Date: Fri Jan 2, 2009 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 6/1/2009, 18:30
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#156 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 6/1/2009, 18:30
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Date:   Tuesday 6 January 2009
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#155 From: "richard griffiths" <rgriffiths@...>
Date: Sun Dec 7, 2008 8:57 pm
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Martin,
Until you mentioned yesterday I had not heard of this.

I have potential ways for finding out about this and I will see what I can do, particularly since I am a Council tenant.

Richard

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Subject: [hertfordshiretpa] Moonlight Robbery


Here is another potential example of government waste.  In Welwyn Hatfield, Cllr Mandy Perkins claims to support this campaign.

You can see the campaign's front-end via http://www.moonlightrobbery.org.uk/ .

The headline is that council tenants seem to fund more than just the cost of their housing, with the balance going to the Treasury.

Have any activists heard of this campaign, or know the full case behind it?  I have reviewed the website, but it will require a few re-reads to make proper sense of it..!

Martin


#154 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Sun Dec 7, 2008 8:03 pm
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Here is another potential example of government waste.  In Welwyn Hatfield, Cllr Mandy Perkins claims to support this campaign.

You can see the campaign's front-end via http://www.moonlightrobbery.org.uk/ .

The headline is that council tenants seem to fund more than just the cost of their housing, with the balance going to the Treasury.

Have any activists heard of this campaign, or know the full case behind it?  I have reviewed the website, but it will require a few re-reads to make proper sense of it..!

Martin


#153 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Mon Dec 1, 2008 6:04 pm
Subject: Pre-Budget Report: MoneyWeek
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MoneyWeek has absolutely slammed the politics behind the PBR.  MoneyWeek - written by journalists - can say things that orthodox chartered institutes really ought not to say.  Not yet available on the public website, the magazine's latest editorial is entitled, "Ignore Darling, buy gold".  The caption says, "We think Brown and Darling of shamelessly incompetent idiots."

The magazine is expecting an on-going deflationary recession (a decline in economic activity where prices fall due to lack of demand), a give-away PBR for an election in 2010 or 2011 (a government trying to spend its way out of recession, this time by borrowing during a borrowing crisis: duh), followed by a rising tax burden to repay debt during a continued deflationary recession (where does the money come from?).

Meanwhile, with spare public sector cash chasing too few goods in a recession, inflation and rising interest rates - during a recession! - are still on the cards.

And, just to spite everything, the PBR introduced a headline new rate of tax (45%) for high-income earners, with enough lead time for them to leave the UK.  Without an exodus, the measure will raise only £670m: basically next-to-zero.

And they will have good reason to want to leave.  Their pension lifetime allowance will be frozen at GBP 1.8m for 5 years.  So, once again, the government is going to raid pension funds (this time at the point of contribution or investment) to plug a small part of the gap in its own finances.

If a company ran its finances like this - or even let them get into such a state - the business would go bust or be subject to a fraud investigation.




ps: TPA was quoted in MoneyWeek on 28-Nov-08: page 39, "The fattest fat cats in Whitehall."


#152 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Mon Dec 1, 2008 5:56 pm
Subject: Pre-Budget Report: Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW)
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On 28-Nov-08, the ICAEW has commented on the PBR:

http://www.icaew.com/index.cfm/route/162061/icaew_ga/en/Technical_amp_Business_Topics/Faculties/News/Pre_Budget_Report_summary 

The URL goes to a page from which you can download the 28-page PDF file.

The comment is slightly technical, but written in fairly plan English.  All taxpayers should have a go at skim-reading it, if only to feel aghast at the excess complexity built into the UK tax system.

There is also a fair amount of cheer-leading ("This is what we campaigned for"), illustrating that the ICAEW is more activist than it used to be.

From page 3 of the overview:
"In summary, the Chancellor probably did the best with very limited resources at his
disposal, but whether it will be enough to hold off an economic storm or a financial
crisis, or both, looks highly debatable. Given the deterioration since the 2008 Budget, it
looks a reasonable bet that the financial outlook will deteriorate even further. This will
wreck the financial projections that underpin this PBR and bring us much closer to a
crisis in the Government's finances and the unwelcome spectre of the UK having to
take drastic action to avoid a possible default on its debt. At that point, taxes will have
to rise and spending probably be cut. If we are still in a recession, this could send the
economy into tailspin. No wonder the Chancellor looked so gloomy: with nothing in the
cupboard to counter the economic storm, we are now playing for high stakes and the
consequences for the UK if the forecasts do not turn out as predicted in this PBR could
be very serious."

End of message.


#151 From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Mon Dec 1, 2008 5:39 pm
Subject: Re: General monthly meeting, 2/12/2008, 18:30
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Dear all

For tomorrow's general meeting, I have no specific agenda items.

In the prior meeting, I was to start a blog.  Here it is:
http://ataxpayersblog.blogspot.com/

I was also to find a way to get a stall at St Albans.  I have started
this process, but not finished it.  The council seems to run the
market and has commenced a scheme to run stalls for free for charities
etc.  So I've opened negotiations with the relevant council official.

The next event is Hatfield Farmer's Market, 9am on Saturday 6-Dec-08.
  This should be a biggie (recession nothwithstanding), because it's
the last farmer's market at Hatfield prior to Xmas.  The Labour Party
runs a wallpaper table at the same market, to add to the local colour.

Do we have matters arising that require a meeting tomorrow?  Or shall
we skip the meeting until Saturday morning?

Kind regards


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> Location: Hatfield Arms
> Street: Gt North Road
> City County Postcode: Hatfield, AL9 5AE
> Phone: 07 947 035 000
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> A general meeting for all local activists in Hertfordshire, to
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#150 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 2/12/2008, 18:30
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
City County Postcode:   Hatfield, AL9 5AE
Phone:   07 947 035 000
Notes:   A general meeting for all local activists in Hertfordshire, to co-ordinate campaigns, events and latest developments.
 
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#149 From: hertfordshiretpa@...
Date: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:25 pm
Subject: General monthly meeting, 2/12/2008, 18:30
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Title:   General monthly meeting
 
Date:   Tuesday 2 December 2008
Time:   18:30 - 20:30
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Location:   Hatfield Arms
Street:   Gt North Road
City County Postcode:   Hatfield, AL9 5AE
Phone:   07 947 035 000
Notes:   A general meeting for all local activists in Hertfordshire, to co-ordinate campaigns, events and latest developments.
 
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#148 From: "richard griffiths" <rgriffiths@...>
Date: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:56 am
Subject: Re: Agenda: general monthly meeting Tue 11-Nov-08
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Martin,
I'm going to raise issues surrounding the latest on line self assessment tax deposit system which has wrinkles and which, if adopted by a non- governmental type organisation, would be regarded with deep suspicion.
See you tonight.
Richard

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From: "stalbanstpa" <stalbanstpa@...>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:32:30 -0000
To: <hertfordshiretpa@...>
Subject: [hertfordshiretpa] Agenda: general monthly meeting Tue 11-Nov-08


The agenda this evening is an informal swipe at a plan of action for
the next few months.

Minutes passim are available on the Yahoo! group for your review, but
the political and economic landscape has changed so much, they won't
serve much! Time for a plain sheet of paper, perhaps?

Hope to see you there!

Kind regards

Martin


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