Profligacy (At it's best)

[jungle1810]

Hello all,
I thought this thread to be of interest to forum members, in view of the difficult financial out look in the E U. Europe's " Travelling Circus" in which M E P's decamp to France once a month cost at least £93 million a year.The astonishing price of packing up the parliament in Brussels and shipping it to Strasbourg for just 4 days a month. How ever the true cost is nearer to £103 million, the Conservatives have tried to call a halt to this practice. some £250,000 is spent just sending the paper work between the two cities.Maintaining the parliament in Strasbourg costs about £50 million a year. M.E.P's voted to scrap this "Circus" by a 3 to one vote but the French will veto any attempt to do so. Self interests prevail here as in the case of the C A P benefits.

Item 2
British M P's have spent £250,000 on portraits paid for by the public.The details are £11,750 on Diane Abbott, £11,750 on Margaret Beckett, £10,000 for Ian Duncan Smith, £8,000 on Kenneth Clarke, £4,000 on William Hague, Tony Benn had £2,800 and Dennis Skinner £2,000. This spending was approved by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of "ART". In closing the M o D has ordered that after any live firing exercises troops are not to waste ammo and hand all live ammo back as laid down in orders. This from a nation that has more Admirals than ships??
Regards R BD

[jcj]

Brian

you can add this cock up and waste of money to your list.

The Army has had to write off £6.7m on a failed online recruitment system, UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told MPs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25731027

[Baconwallah]

Politics is about self-interest, Don, no matter how you shake it. Then comes the interest of the party, then nothing for a very long time, then perhaps the country and the electorate. I lost any illusions I might have had about politics a long, long time ago.

As for the portrait painting, I wonder what a portrait of Caroline Ashton would cost - assuming that an artist can be found who is willing to face that ordeal.

John