TIM ROACHE has labelled the right-wing Taxpayers’ Alliance pressure group the “Tax Dodgers’ Alliance,” as he warned dodgy employers and the Tory government: “We’re coming for you.”

Speaking to delegates at the GMB annual conference in Brighton yesterday, the union’s general secretary said that “bosses may have power when workers are divided but, when we stand together, our might is absolutely unstoppable.”

He congratulated the union’s membership for putting a “flag in the sand” over various industrial disputes over the past year, mentioning the ongoing struggles against subcontracting giant ISS and British Gas management among others.

Mr Roache also demanded an end to the “flexibility” culture in many workplaces and warned Amazon: “Until you stop abusing your staff and sending them home in ambulances — we’re coming after you.”

His comments follow Freedom of Information requests by the union last year which revealed that ambulances were called to Amazon warehouses across Britain 600 times between 2015-17.

He then launched a broadside against the Taxpayers’ Alliance, which last week slammed trade unions for having too much power. It had attempted to launch the hashtag “#StandAgainstSocialism” on Twitter.

“I can hear the howls from the right-wing press from the Taxpayers’ Alliance — more like the Tax Dodgers’ Alliance,” Mr Roache said.

“They’ve launched their new campaign the other day, a campaign to shoot down ‘red union barons’ and ‘take a stand against socialism,’ because while we trade unionists are apparently dinosaurs from a lost age we simultaneously have too much power.

“Unelected, unaccountable, right-wing libertarian groups such as the Taxpayers’ Alliance don’t represent taxpayers.

“They represent tax exiles. They represent taxpayers to other countries.

“Look at our union, which is 620,000 strong. We are hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who care for and work for our public services, and keep them going. We are the real taxpayers’ alliance.

“Just as we have had our conference this week I’m looking forward to the Taxpayers’ Alliance meeting up to democratically determine their policy on issues.

“There’s a phone box just down the road — I’m sure that would be available for them.”

In a sharp attack on the Tories Mr Roache criticised Chancellor Philip Hammond for denying that people live in abject poverty in Britain, saying: “We have nation as rich as ours condemned by the United Nations for how we treat the poorest in our society.

“Yet the man in charge of these decisions denies these problems exist in the United Kingdom.

“We’re not a poor country, we’re a poorly run country.”

He also laid down the gauntlet to the government, challenging all Tory leadership contenders — after they “stop fighting over a bag of cocaine” — to “bring the battle.”

Mr Roache added: “If they want to see a 21st-century fighting movement, which is just as relevant as it has ever been, then watch GMB at work.

“We’re not going anywhere.”