Cameron and the community cricket question

In his column for The Guardian, Andy Bull writes about how David Cameron's government has done little more than pay lip service to safeguarding community sport in the UK.

Eynsham have been saddled with a £35,344.47 VAT bill from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. They can't pay it. And unless they win their appeal, they will be shut down. Eynsham CC are fighting for survival, and losing.

I say Eynsham is a club much like hundreds of others, but there is one little difference. The club is in the Witney constituency of David Cameron. His house is a short drive up Cuckoo Lane. Cameron has never been shy of using the game for his own ends, whether he's batting out an over against Muttiah Muralitharan at Sri Lanka's National Academy, or playing a pick-up game with kids on a maidan in Mumbai. The case of Eynsham CC, his neighbouring club in Chipping Norton, raises a lot of awkward questions, about the priorities of HMRC, for one, but also about the value his government places on community sport