Despite becoming Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles still enjoys bashing Labour as much as he did when he was Tory party chairman.

Today he is highlighting “Harriet Harman’s Serene Green Tranquillity Room” built as part of a £2.4 million refit of the offices used by her Equalities Office. Described as “a 21st Century… space of quality, air and light, where we can work, relax and refuel in a natural ebb and flow”.

So bascially civil servants can loaf about doing nothing in comfort…