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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Snoopy on August 04, 2007, 04:08:29 PM
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I had considered John Prescott as an amusing sideshow to the serious business of politics but this really does annoy me. In his last year despite having no official government job this b@st@rd manages to spend half a million on travel and entertainment. Make him pay it back out of his inflation proof pension ~ Better yet make Blair pay it back 'cos he allowed it to happen. evil:
Massive bill: Prescott costs taypayers ?500,000 for travel and entertaining
John Prescott's globetrotting and entertaining cost taxpayers more than ?500,000 last year, official figures show.
Even though he had been stripped of most of his duties after his affair with Tracey Temple, the former deputy prime minister continued to travel around the world at the public's expense.
As a result, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister rung up a bill of ?507,000 for travel, subsistence and hospitality in the 2006/07 financial year.
Mr Prescott visited countries including the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Malaysia and Mexico.
In total, he made 11 trips overseas for meetings on subjects including climate change, the slave trade and the EU. In October, his ten- day trip to the Far East cost ?11,000.
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I had considered John Prescott as an amusing sideshow to the serious business of politics but this really does annoy me. In his last year despite having no official government job this b@st@rd manages to spend half a million on travel and entertainment. Make him pay it back out of his inflation proof pension ~ Better yet make Blair pay it back 'cos he allowed it to happen. evil:
Massive bill: Prescott costs taypayers ?500,000 for travel and entertaining
John Prescott's globetrotting and entertaining cost taxpayers more than ?500,000 last year, official figures show.
Even though he had been stripped of most of his duties after his affair with Tracey Temple, the former deputy prime minister continued to travel around the world at the public's expense.
As a result, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister rung up a bill of ?507,000 for travel, subsistence and hospitality in the 2006/07 financial year.
Mr Prescott visited countries including the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Malaysia and Mexico.
In total, he made 11 trips overseas for meetings on subjects including climate change, the slave trade and the EU. In October, his ten- day trip to the Far East cost ?11,000.
Is it just me that wants every journalist to also return their salaries?
The headline states ?500,000 then within a few paragraphs we learn it's ?507,000. Is 7k such an insignificat figure these days?