Three disgusting Tory MPs - Nadine Dorries, Steve Baker and Caroline Nokes - enjoyed a £25,000 junket to Equatorial Guinea this summer just weeks before a report concluded human rights violations in the country were 'trivial'. Ignorant, thick and venal.
Prescott has denied going on a credit card spending spree while Deputy Prime Minister, blaming card cloning.
Among the officials, luxury hotels, doughnuts, and even flying lessons are among the items paid for using Government credit cards since the coalition came to power. Examples here. But who was disciplined?
Another example. In Lincolnshire one fire officer spent £27,000 in two years on business class flights. This was one Mike Thomas, who took trips to the US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand to attend search and rescue training programmes on business class tickets - then charged them back to the council.
These costs were incurred "in his work with groups aiming to improve firefighter safety at an international level". Why did this fall to the taxpayers of Lincolnshire?
Still, at least Mr Thomas is applying the lessons he learned for the benefit of the taxpayers of Lincolnshire? Seems not - he is now former chief fire officer Mike Thomas. If all this overseas research was going to be worth while, why was it best to send someone just ending his career?
The council chief executive says the expenditure contravened council rules. Did the chief fire officer not know this? Did the person who signed the payments off not know this? If they didn't they should have done.
So who has suffered - apart from the taxpayers? Guess what. Mistakes have been made and steps have been taken to address them. And that's it, of course. Tough luck, taxpayers. Your money's gone.
2 comments:
"Mistakes have been made and steps have been taken to address them."
And of course somebody should take responsibility for that statement, but when it happens again nobody will.
You cynic!
I so agree :)
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