Chuck out your chintz
This from Nick Assinder at the BBC:
We all know what it’s like. You live in the same house for donkeys’ years and eventually the stuffing falls out of the sofa, the mattresses sag and the kids break your favourite coffee table.
All part of the wear and tear of daily living – requiring a trip to the local furniture shop and a raid on the credit card. But £30,000 in one year?
That is what Tony and Cherie Blair, or more precisely the Cabinet Office, spent on furnishings in 10 Downing Street in 2004-5. And it wasn’t a one off.
In the previous five years they spent just short of £100,000 on furnishings – and you can get a lot of new coffee tables for that sort of money.
The figures have been obtained by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker who intends to investigate further to discover precisely what the cash was spent on.
“I’ve been in Downing Street and the furniture looks perfectly alright to me. It seems the prime minister is very cavalier when it comes to spending other people’s money to keep himself in comfort,” he said.
£20,000 a year on furnishings while nurses are being laid off left right and center.
Don’t you just love a man who sticks to his socialist principles?
