Sometimes individual savings identified by UK DOGE number in the billions. Others reveal the rot in Whitehall’s attitude towards taxpayer cash…
The Government Property Agency was asked this month by Richard Holden what flags it had purchased since the general election. There are two. One is a Ukrainian flag purchased to “show solidarity” for £104.60 – all good. The GPA managed to spend almost seven times that figure, though, on one Pride flag “purchased for flying during events.“ Total price tag: £674.17…
Seeing as you can buy a massive eight foot “Intersex Progress Pride” flag on Amazon for £25 – and that’s on the expensive side – Guido is not quite sure how the government managed to get the bill to 27 times that amount. There is no bottom to Labour’s capacity to spaff the cash…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”