Treasury’s £1 Million Stimulus
Just as the Q3 GDP figures were announced this morning a perfectly-timed FOI response landed in Guido’s inbox. Between January and October this year the Treasury spent almost £1 million of taxpayers’ money renovating their Horse Guards Road offices. The cash was spent on a project to “optimise usable space”, with hundreds of thousands spent on building brand new workstations, receptions and infrastructure and buying new furniture. That’s one way of softening the construction downturn…
UPDATE: Treasury sources get in touch to stress that the project will double the occupancy of the building, freeing up space elsewhere and so saving money. Twice as many Treasury officials under one roof, what a thought…
To be fair, a million pounds spent on a pile the size of the Treasury is just running maintenance.
Any bunk bends? Soft toys? Dungeons?
‘beds’. All this buggering and blackmailing takes its toll on the minces.
5. Isn’t that the BBC?
you can’t beat a bit of infrastructure when its quiet
What, bends….. Na more like Cameron U turns.!
It takes courage to stand up to black, regardless of whether it is mailed or not.
In terms of the darkness that is said to be our economy, the phrase healing has come into fore.
Is the economy hurt?
it is being healed, apparently. This requires courage.
it takes courage to change ourselves. is external change possible otherwise?
what matters is who has power, savile did not, the rest is just being economical with the truth.
Words from my mouth.
Now bend over and feel the force of Savile.
power.less use greatest force.
ever heard a baby cry?
I just did a Google image to look inside the Treasury and there is nothing, absolutely nothing. Loads of pictures of the outside but nothing from within.
Maybe you have to turn “safe search” off. Then perhaps you get loads of pictures of them frolicking around naked.
Nothing to see really. Just hundreds of account ledgers with red entries.
and loads of inksplashes with nokia imprints from you know who..
Here you are:
http://bit.ly/Rm0JXc
(awaiting sentence)
I too followed the force of google earth, arriving inside Westminster Palace. The place was full of aliens, nothing at all like humans. These aliens survive by suction off the humans any way they can.
I trust it was all spent on British contractors?
Of course it did.
As you are no doubt aware, it is illegal to discriminate against any EU contractor who tenders for contract work, in any member state. Luckily, my firm won the tender and all my ahem ‘british’ workers, were employed full time on the work.
It’s only illegal in the countries which enforce that Law. Which as far as I can make out is the UK.
And Sark
A nd anthrax. Island in. The. Hebrides somewhere.
Agree. The electricity bill must be £½m a year alone.
In six months time we will be able to call Osborne, Triple Dip Osborne. Osborne will be the only UK Chancellor of the Exchequer who would have managed to achieve it.
Why? care to back up with creditable researched details-no then bollox.
US, Germany, China, France, etc are in trouble, they are expected to fall into recession. So exports will fall.
Once extra bank holiday, Olympia’s, etc are striped growth is around 0.2%. Also total benefits paid are going up. Osborne’s economic miss management doesn’t help either. In other words he is borrowing 22% more than last year to feed and keep people at home.
Based on these UK will end up getting back to recession.
That’s what I said.
+1,000,000
Are you out of your tiny Chinese mind?
I think you’re mental
Nah dosnt hit the cherry bits buddy.
Gosbourne is a triple Drip and fiddling the stats to make out all is well, as the depression is just about starting.
Next he will be saying we have “never had it so good” Pathetic………..
Sorry Ed-Balls-Up missed you out
Your a useless C’unt as well
To be fair, a million pounds spent on a pile the size of the Treasury is just plain madness, – assuming that at least half the (unnecessary) staff will / have been ‘rationalised’.
I was buying a Standard class renovation but thought as the builders were in I would ask for an upgrade…… I didn’t expect to pay for it though.
Wallpapers by Osborne & Little?
Paint from Farrow & Ball?
“The cash was spent on a project to “optimise usable space””
Couldn’t they just moved the desks closer together?
..or sack a few hundred thousand of the lazy, clock-watching, time-serving, superannuated, institutionalised, sick-note, incompetent plodding bastards?
Agreed but you missed the word parasite!
♫ A finger of Fun is just enough
♫ to give your kids
♫ A TREAT ♫
don’t ring us jimmy
Clunk. Strip
Mine’s. a Trick
Yeah…more twatting money pissed up against a wall IN THE SOUTH!
Blocked again for this ?? FFS
Manchester United star Wayne Rooney weighs into US election debate – and gives his vote to Barack Obama
That should clinch it for O’Binliner then Ex!AM.
wooney ……fat slob…past it…slow…ugly
Shock horror. Government wastes 0.0000015% of the 2012 budget on running the government. This site is becoming wose that the bloody Daily Mail.
OK let’s stop all benefits immediately. There, that’s 20% saved. Happy now?
Ah the old socialist dog whistle ‘Daily Mail’. Are we all supposed to boo and hiss, like good citizens, in the politically correct fashion at lt’s mention comrade?
WTF are you on about? I am no more a socialist than Tony fucking Blair. My point was this is a bullshit story when we are paying Somalis £100,000 rents and spending £200 million on welfare. Tosser.
You clearly don’t know much about St. Tone of Troof.
He always refers to himself as a ‘progressive’ try googling it sometime.
A certain Italian called Benito started the ‘progressive movement’ way back in the day.
He called it ‘the third way’ too, something St. Tone himself endlessly mentions as well.
The third way progressive movement, is in fact a modern day variation of Benito’s version of corporatist, collectivist socialism, called fascism.
Don’t thank me for educating you, tosser.
we are both a collective and an individual.
depends on the magnifying glass. what matters is the relationship we are seeking.
Wouldn’t want any of you lot to work out who actually pulled and continues to pull the strings of the Fascists AND Communists – but who have stood above them ‘at arms length’ and have been having a right old laugh – whilst making billions at pitting two parties at one another for decades while the moneylenders couldn’t lose which ever faction won out (they pull the strings of BOTH SIDES) – not that the ML’s want it all to end. So their moneymaking goes on and on and on and on …. hello…
yeah, fuck the Daily Mail, little Englanders etc
Maybe he should have just blagged that uprade
first
second
dwarf annexed to a slut….yuk only slightly more appealing than ed balls and yvette cooper
We never spent a penny of Taxpayers’ money during The Reign of Terror 1997-2010. It was either an ‘investment’ or it would have been at zero cost through a PFI initiative which will end up costing your grandchildren £ 1.9 billion.
You mean £1.9 Trillion?
Ah yes Shallow Chancer. I remember Hapless Harriet spending oodles of tax payers’ money on a ‘Tranquility Room’. People who vote Labour are just plain sick in the head, and beyond redemption!
Well, Gordons constituency Labour Party had a “Quiet Room” set up for him when he visited.
He did not need a quiet room IMO, he needed a padded cell.
With a hard area for his highly volatile head.
Where did they buy the wallpaper from though? eh? eh? eh?
Erm, this was actually work to cram more people into the building from other organisations, principally the Cabinet Offfice.
A million pounds ? How much is that ??? I really don’t know. Honest.
…to Jimmy Savile?
It’s one millionth of the national debt, you stupid fxxker.
So whats the problem?
My son got into trouble in his English class today.
The teacher asked him what other seven letter word he can get from the word “corpses”.
After thinking for a moment, he turned to his teacher and replied “Aroused, miss”.
“You can’t get aroused from corpses!” his teacher exclaimed.
“Well Jimmy Savile fucking did”, my son replied.
Fuck me this is disgusting. This amount of money would have purchased 2 yachts
Is this the launch of Windows 8 EU style?
Has he had his head specially polished?
Calling a hyper-regulated customs cartel a single market should get you prosecuted under the trades descriptions act.
I am interested in the Chutney Cupboard
You can simulate being there in person by painting a wall and then watching it dry.
Clegg talks Double Dutch
Mistrust is deepening between the Europhobic David Cameron and the Eurofanatic Nick Clegg. I hear Downing Street insisted that a No 10 minder attend a meeting in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office lair with Herman Van Rompuy of the European Council. Van Rompuy is that elusive creature, a near-famous Belgian. Clegg is even rarer – a polyglot Brit. The Lib Dem internationalist has five languages: French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Tory. Irritated at No 10’s snooping, Clever Cloggs conducted the entire session in Dutch, so the PM’s cloth-eared spy was left fuming in the corner, listening but not understanding a double- Dutch conversation.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2012/10/clegg-talks-double-dutch
I thought all these clever chappies, public school and Oxbridge educated beings would have been able to russell up at least one dutch speaker also knowledge of French, didn’t they think to take a small digital recorder into the meeting, especially if they are that desperate
Look at them – Donkeys leading asses.
In my area, the City Council – one of the worst run in the country- is putting the finishing touches to its proposed move its offices from one area of the city to another. Having spent millions moving a few years ago, they now want to move back to stimulate private investment in the area. Not content with cutting services because it has been so incompetently run, they now want to borrow £40m to complete the new build and move! Spend, borrow, spend, borrow repeat ad nauseum
An Anonymous Council.
Stoke-on-Trent.
What else would you expect?
Spot on Cat. The City has been turned into a ghetto & English is very rarely heard nowadays.
It and Newcastle-under-Lyme are strange places and, like so many English towns, have developed into sprawls with little identity to latch onto. Tunstall is the nicest part I have seen. I had a good curry there once.
It is curious that I have no particular connection with the place but I always seem to end up there on my visits back to the UK and often went there before I emigrated probably because diesel is cheaper there than on the M6 services!
Localsim = Commune ism.
Is it the same Council who let the religion of piss have a prime site for £1 ‘N.S.? If it is, then I know it well, AND I remember them knocking down perfectly good houses, and then letting the land get overgrown & derelict. The Leader of the Council I am thinking of is a member of the same religion and is bent as a 9 bob note.
Localism = Commune ism. Wake up to your ‘regionalisation’ it’s what the EU are doing for and to you. Swallow that pill peasants.
Why is Alyingstare Campbell wearing glasses ?
is it an abuse to invade an unprotected entity?
Despite the dead innocents of Iraq, The UK and Afghanistan – look at what Alistair has done for faith, hope and charity … come on he was affected by depression and drink…..
BEAST!
Ummuna is on the BBC News. He talks absolute bollocks.
Hаs hе cоmе оut іn suppоrt оf thе sеаmеn?
You mean as in seminal fluid ??
As the man is an inveterate wanker I dare say he has.
He’ll be going blind soon .
as a mandy protege, to get anywhere
meaningful in life,
CU will have to step over his master.
not until it is time though.
In the meantime,
he will slime on. plodder him.
Is he just another ‘token’ put up job like Trevor Phillips who cannot see how they’ve been taken for a ride? [De Fatbutt included]
What price David Millionaireband returning as shadow chancellor?
So Gideon’s got the decorators in? Why am I not surprised?
But did he get discount on the Wallpaper from Osborne and Little?
http://www.osborneandlittle.com/
Testing , testing. 1, 2, 3
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow …
Ed Balls or Jimmy Savile, who is the biggest denier?
Dead men tell no tales
That is why I had Robin Cock murdered
And Dr Kelly B.Liar. Don’t forget that poor gentleman.
Mentioned Dr.K…e..l…l…y being done away with too, AND GOT MODDED!
Don’ t even think of mentioning Holly G*ei *!! !!
Blair is not the issue. real power is with those who do good, but at what price?
blair is protected.
but by whom?
What about the bloke under the tree?
Well one of ‘em’s dead. so I’ll let you fathom it .
I would have done it for half the price
Mark has provided a detailed account of [Savile news story], and I am satisfied that he played no role in the cancellation of the segment. …he possesses high ethical standards…
Arthur Sulzberger Jr, chairman of the New York Times Company
What does he know, sitting in a desk in NYC?
Certainly had a high pay packet
And thay all have ‘monied Scheusters’ behind them SC.
Now do please research – the Original Scheuster – out of NY in the early 1900′s.
And btw Myers V Ellman Dec 1939 AELR – History hidden behind what else was going on at the time….
Ah but has pressing all that space into service led to the deficet going up ….
Ed Conway didnt quite get the useful answers , well not yet although he did manage to make the chancellor look offended , not that having buinesses doing bns of buisness and no corporation tax should be good reason to look offended or anything , but Adam Boulton continued his good week , although this new “there never was a deficet ” line was a bit much for me . However Ed Balls was all pasted in goose fat and ready for his cross channel attempt , sploosh hadnt even got out of Dover , when he started chewing at deficet going up …Adam “yeah but wouldnt the deficet be going up under your plan”
Ed: the deficet was decreasing at the general election ….
And so the crack appeared …. but wasnt made much use of ….. just how much would the deficet be by now if we had the balls plan ….. How many more people would be in work …… how much is Ed Milliband worth …..
Ed said all sorts new things , selective time moments , not really a deficet problem , but yes would have to reduce it , weak growth not like other EU countries , well at least not like them until the end of the month , have to try him on , what % interest rate had he factored into his figures if he had lost the AAA rating and how can you calculate growth when borrowing reduces the margin ….. clealry difficult subjects for a man who spent so long in treasury …
mmmm but still crap at economic numbers ….
Who the heck takes any notice of toilets maguire? He’s just a Labour nutter, like toe nails.
Aren’t you still beholden to the Unions magoo for what you have concealed in your not so distant past?
“Almost all predictions about the expansion and cost of German wind turbines and solar panels have turned out to be wrong – at least by a factor of two, sometimes by a factor of five.
When Germany’s power grid operator announced the exact amount of next year’s green energy levy on Monday, it came as a shock to the country. The cost burden for consumers and industry have reached a “barely tolerable level that threatens the de-industrialization of Germany”, outraged business organisations said.”
Read at:
http://www.thegwpf.org/lies-damn-lies-and-green-statistics/
That’s Bollocks. Wind turbines will make us all rich. We can export our wind to other countries.
And the taxes we will put on your energy bill will easily pay the subsidy and a bit more.
Ok, so the average energy bill will be £14,000 but so what? You can offset that by not using any energy at all. Your own sense of Eco-recycling-righteous-superior do gooding will give you a warm glow that will keep you warmer than any coal fire.
And if you only eat pepperami there’s no need to cook. the green pack is plenty hot enough.
you forgot about Carbon tax wheeze
Chuck a pensioner on the barbie and knit Guardian pullovers.
Bill you forget where the most wind is generated, the HoC, that is especially after the lot of them have had a heaped plate of curry, methene and oxygen quite an explosive mixture
Just think of the noise and smell after Clark, Pickles, Watson and
Lard Presscott have pigged them selves stupid……
And; bring back Neil Kinnock he can account for so much more hot air by my arthar and rheassoning.
This blog is Really Quite Good. It tells you things you wouldn’t otherwise hear. Even if you don’t agree with the Guido-stance on things, it’s probably the closest thing we have to investigative journalism – which is otherwise quite depressing. Why isn’t the flat-rent-swapping thing a bigger scandal?
Shame you missed out on origional expenses run , soon have yer blood boiling , one MP even managed to hold all time record of £1mn in annual expenses ..
I didn’t miss it, but it seems like the intoxication of outrage should be similarly available to sensible people in this case. That said, who got a million pounds of expenses? That I did not know and it could keep me outraged indefinitely.
No one knows who it was.
Thank God.
Ken
Thank you for clearing that up
Maybe you could pop around next week and have a good long rummage in my red box just for old times sake ?
Popcorn fans! Fancy kicking in your TV? Check out the (mostly) awful panel on tonight’s Question Time:
Vince Fable, Emily “Ten Bellies” Thornberry, smug twat Mehdi Hasan. On the bright side, Tory honey Claire Perry and UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall.
Thanks I wont bother now.
Kim Jong-un has been burnishing his credentials as a hard man by ordering the vice minister of the North Korean army to be executed by mortar round thus leaving no trace of him behind, down to the hair.
His sin was doing what I am doing now, drinking a glass of wine. If Gordon had stayed on it would be like that in the UK too, I dare say.
mmm just think of apocolyptic scene from Terminator faranchise , large mettalic droids , firing chain gun , down your street , shouting vote Labour , vote Labour
Complaints would have been mortared in the usual way.
Until you nasty people took my precious aweey.
Rushing to get home last Friday find to my dismay First Class jam packed. Wretched chaps those Pinstripes. What a bore! No seat! As guard’s whistle toots, I espy an umbrella occupying empty seat next to most selfish toffee-nosed square.
Quickly seizing the brolly, I hook chappy round stroup, in one swift movement turf the fat old boy clean off train. Receding heap on the platform, finally able to squawk out anything remotely comprehensible fumes,
“Don’t you know who the Hell I am?”
Disliking rhetorical questions I shout back,
“How’d you expect a pleb like me to know!”
People talking about the economy make my tummy feel funny.
First the Jitters now the shitters.
I see the Plod have gone up to Jockland to investigate crimes possibly committed by a man called Jimmy. They could be there for some time.
They might want to check out the twats with one eye as well
Sounds nice
Jimmy does Jock Straps….
Popcorn fans! Fancy kicking in your TV? Check out the (mostly) awful panel on tonight’s Question Time:
Vince Fable, Emily “Ten Bellies” Thornberry, smug twat Mehdi Hasan. On the bright side, Tory honey Claire Perry and UKIP deputy leader P*ul Nuttall.
Tory totty!
A random generator has entered the modding code.
testing:
Ah! Monika
*well that got through OK*
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions.
White minorities still trying to have English recognised as the UK ‘s third language.
Children from two-parent, married, heterosexual families bullied in schools for being ‘different’. Tolerance urged.
Manchester schoolgirl expelled for not wearing a Burqa.
Japan announces that they will no longer consume whale meat as whales are now extinct, and the scientific research fleet are unemployed. UK Government has told the Japanese that Grey Squirrels taste like whale meat.
Britain now has ten Universities of Political Correctness. Professor Goldman of LUPC says there is still a long way to go in the fight to stop people saying what they think.
Britain ‘s deficit £10 trillion and rising. Government declares return to surplus in 100 years which is 300 years ahead of time. Prime Minister Mohammed Yousuf claims increased growth through more immigration is the secret to success.
Baby conceived naturally. Scientists stumped.
Iran still isolated. Physicists estimate at least ten more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Islamic Countries. No other country comes forward.
Jose Manuel Rodrigez Bush says he will run for second term as US President in 2032.
Post Office raises price of stamps to £18 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
After a ten-year, £75.8 billion study commissioned by the Labour Party, scientists prove diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of a British male drops to 18 stone.
Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they can now photograph a woman with her mouth shut.
Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil and human rights. Victims to be held partly responsible for crime.
Average height of professional basketball players is now nine feet, seven inches.
New law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2035 as lethal weapons.
Inland Revenue sets lowest tax rate in decades at 75 per cent.
Bradford City win FA Cup Final, beating Hindu Hornets 4-1.
I do not believe the prophecy that the average British person’s weight plummeted to 18 stone .
That one is a pure canard .
Uncanny. This is, almost word for word, the plot of ‘Pilkington Abbey’ by Bertha, the forgotten Bronte sister.
You forgot
Still waiting for Ken Livingsone to publish his tax returns
I love the way the BBC makes out that nearly all the growth in last Q was down to Olympics, when of course it wasn’t. BBC also fail to point out jubilee had negative effect.
Basically the BBC are pissed off economy is picking up.
as a supposed democrat Rupert Murdoch should offer sky customers a packgae which is BBC free.
But then SKY is independent of Murdoch, or is it?
Its not just the BBC they are all at it, lazy stupid spoonfed media
The DPP Keir Starmer QC is now considering sanctions against offensive (yet to be determined) Tweets or Twitters,!! I ask you!! May be he should spend some of his valuable time bringing to book all these robbing fuc*ing MPs. If he is really serious with this Twitter nonsense then maybe he should recruit this Blog’s group of moderators!!
Quite right too!
The perpetrator of any offensive or subversive tweet, or others simply on a whim, should be executed by mortar round thus leaving no trace of him behind, down to the hair.
KJ-U
Vote Brown get North Korea !
Vote for any of the clowns and you get the same old same old – behind the illuSion of change. Trickery or tweet?
Expressing regret. So New Labour. You don’t even have to say sorry. And you get to keep all the money.
The BBC’s former director general, Mark Thompson, has spoken of his regret over the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
After a month to think about it that is pretty swift for the BBC. He should become the new President of the USA, nay the World. Lovely beard too.
Look at all of the candidates that were put up for DG – they were all placemen. And the twat from Ofcom – has his own skeletons blair-style!
Hey !!
Heard. the one about mad frankie selling admiralty arch on a 200 odd year lease to the japs to turn into. ANOTHER. Luxury hotel .
He’ll. be renting out Downing Street to Easti European hookers. Next .
perhaps less kiddie fiddlers as we go east.
I thought they had it down for a William Hill’s.
Or selling off office space elsewhere?
Not double the Treasury officials. The building now houses a large number of Cabinet Office staff who used to live in 22 Whitehall. That building has now been handed over to DfID, allowing them to leave the rented building near Buck House which was costing them millions a year.
You should be happy, a large amount of taxpayers’ money is being saved by this project.
If not – how many others did you try it on with ye ken biloddybugher?
Sign up to this – No to PCC elections.
BTW – they [Gov't] are making it ‘quite difficult’ to get through – so persist
When they ask you to type in Nos and letters [there aint none save a long useless string] so click on enter – ‘then’ enter what you see – took me 3 goes to get in even then. They really are exposed by their overt obfuscation and attempts to make things difficult – A cult of hanging on to their ill gotten gains.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/33959
My eighty-six year old Mother has been so incensed by the Savile shtick that she has sent her free telly licence back.