Pickles spends £500K on travel
Discussion
NicD said:
Communities minister Brandon Lewis said the number of cars since Labour was in charge has gone down from six to two between seven ministers.
They can walk/get the bus/tube as far as I am concerned. Funny how they want to tax us off the road as cars are so nasty but they are happy to shell out hundreds of thousands of pounds themselves.I have got a job. I work a few miles from home. I manage to get myself to and from work by using some of my wages to pay for the running of a car, if its nice I cycle.
Why then do these people not have to pay for their own transport to and from their work place ?
With regard to the issue of travelling for work, If I do any travelling for work I claim that cost back per mile and it gets put in my next months pay.
Give the b
ds oyster cards or something, London is ridiculously easy to travel around and 9 times out of 10 a car is a damn pain in the arse.
Why then do these people not have to pay for their own transport to and from their work place ?
With regard to the issue of travelling for work, If I do any travelling for work I claim that cost back per mile and it gets put in my next months pay.
Give the b
ds oyster cards or something, London is ridiculously easy to travel around and 9 times out of 10 a car is a damn pain in the arse.Jasandjules said:
they are happy to shell out hundreds of thousands of pounds themselves.
No- they're happy for others (us) to shell out hundreds of thousands for them.From Wikipedia: Pickles admitted he claimed a second home allowance because he lived 37 miles from Westminster and needed to leave his constituency house in Brentwood at 5.30 am to get to Westminster for 9.30 am, given that he tended to get home at midnight or 1 am, although the standard time for commuters from this region is usually ninety minutes. He went on to say that it was "no fun" commuting into London from where he lived. In response to Pickles's comments that he "had to be there [the House of Commons] on time", Question Time host David Dimbleby, replied "Like a job, in other words?" prompting amusement amongst the audience
Edited by Rovinghawk on Monday 10th November 19:56
BlackLabel said:
Jesus Christ. So that's what it costs to lay someone off in a reshuffle.
BoRED S2upid said:
How do you rack up bills like that? And who signs it off? That's appalling as said £50k a year for a driver lease a jag fuel you would be struggling to spend £100k a year surely and that's a full time driver and a hell of a lot of miles a year.
I think that part of the problem could be that the provision of these vehicles and their drivers, is known to be for the administration, and therefore the price for them is doubled, if not quadrupled.This seems to be the case for a number of `services' for which government contracts are issued, because the government is seen to be the keeper of the magic money tree.
Last year I spent over six months in hospital looking after my Mum who sadly did not survive. I got to know quite a number of the staff there, including a nurse who was monitoring my Mum
one evening. We got to discussing the NHS generally, and in particular the financial problems it was / is facing. The nurse asked me how much I thought a wheeled stand next to my Mums bed used for supporting drips/plasma bottles cost. It consisted of stainless steel pole about 1.5m long, with 5 legs about 450mm long with a castor on each with a piece of stainless steel wire weld to the top to hold the plasma bags. Knowing it was for a hospital I guessed at about 175 to 250 pounds absolute tops. The nurse said no, it cost ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS, and this was for the `simple one' which did not have a cross bar at the top! If this goes on with all government procurement issues, the price for the above mentioned vehicles does not surprise me, The question is who is at fault? the government / hospital procurement departments for paying these ridiculous sums, or the suppliers for asking for it, My view would be a would be a bit of both, and I doubt I would be surprised if a bit of `commission/' wasn't part of those ridiculous, ridiculous sums.
P.s If `I' had been buying the above mentioned stand for a hospital, I would have told the supplier to poke it up his backside so far, only the castors would still be showing, and to go away and come up with a `correct' price.
Why don't those responsible for procurement of government funded items, and services do the same
Say, like the supermarkets seem to be able to do, and get away with?
Why don't those responsible for procurement of government funded items, and services do the same
Say, like the supermarkets seem to be able to do, and get away with?
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