UK DOGE pored over all the recent Labour transparency returns to find out just how much ministers have been spending on the flights they claimed were an elitist habit when Tories were at it. Reminder: According to Starmer if you fly on government planes you don’t “get” what the public thinks because “the view on the ground is very different to that from his private jet”…
Labour ministers in the first three months following the election spent over £2 million on their private jet habit. £2,085,547.67 to be exact…
That’s £160,427 per week on jets. A large amount of that is thanks to Lammy and Starmer. Bonus points to employment minister Alison McGovern, who managed to spend £6,000 on flights within three weeks of being appointed…
At that rate Labour will spend £8.3 million on flights over a year. That’s enough to fund:
Javier Milei flies commercial. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here.
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”