Ritchie reports that the TUC shares his enthusiasm for a general anti-avoidance principle in tax.

He then says that it's probably only fair that he discloses that he does quite a bit of work for the TUC.

Well, duh. The TUC has virtually no tax policy making ability itself, which is why it subcontracts it to Ritchie. But it's outrageous to then present it as "the TUC says..."

This is a well known tactic on Wikipedia, called "sock puppeting", whereby one person opens several accounts in order to make it look like lots of people agree with him.

Given Ritchie's long tradition for avoiding even fair criticism of his policies, it's a habit he really needs to break.

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