Quoted from user23.3

It would be a false allegation if one was to accuse all Newbury traders of doing business this way, yet this could well be the brush they're tarred with.I don't hate traders, I'm sticking up for them here after yet another action by the NRA that may have a negative effect on them.

I would have thought it would be a more negative effect to know that the taxpayers are funding the retail association anyway? Whether they paid the bill or not.  

Quoted from user23.3

The value is secondary, the main point is the moral one and from that report it looks like that the NRA seems to think it doesn't have to pay for services provided and that taxpayers should foot the bill.

Is this a bill that the tax payer has to pay, or 'simply' lost revenue.

Quoted from user23.3

A poor attempt at deflection brian.

Sorry, not up to your standard, I see that now but you have to know, that I don't have an axe to grind with the Newbury Retailers.

Quoted from Cognosco

I would have thought it would be a more negative effect to know that the taxpayers are funding the retail association anyway? Whether they paid the bill or not.  

Err, the local tax payers fund several things just for the benefit of a few retailers. Nothing new there.

Quoted from user23.3

I don't hate traders, I'm sticking up for them here after yet another action by the NRA that may have a negative effect on them.

Well said. The advent of green meanies, loss of 300 parking spaces, 10 years of digging up roads, rampant supermarket expansion, online shopping boom, may have caused a bit of a kerfuffle, but I'm glad you correctly pointed out that the NRA's unpaid room hire bill could well plunge our homegrown shopkeepers into a final crisis from which they will never recover.

Quoted from 78

Err, the local tax payers fund several things just for the benefit of a few retailers. Nothing new there.

Do local tax payers fund the NRA, I'm not sure about that.

If they do this makes it worse as someone has pocketed taxpayers money rather then using it to pay for it for services used by the organisation.

Quoted from user23.3

If they do this makes it worse as someone has pocketed taxpayers money rather then using it to pay for it for services used by the organisation.

Are you suggesting some irregularity on the part of the association. If so, perhaps you could be more specific.

Quoted from user23.3

Do local tax payers fund the NRA, I'm not sure about that.  If they do this makes it worse as someone has pocketed taxpayers money rather then using it to pay for it for services used by the organisation.

If tax payers money sponsors the NRA in any way, but the NRA didn't pay bills, that doesn't automatically mean that someone trousered the money.

Quoted from Greenham Common

If tax payers money sponsors the NRA in any way, but the NRA didn't pay bills, that doesn't automatically mean that someone trousered the money.

Like I said, I'm not even sure if it is taxpayers money. Someone else suggested that it was.