Despite repeated promises from ministers that they’re cutting waste in Whitehall, the blob still manages to find ways to casually spend taxpayer money. Co-conspirators can guess where…
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology admitted via a written parliamentary question that it spent £350 on a single rainbow flag and £225 on rainbow pins last year. To put that in perspective: a large 8-foot “Intersex Progress Pride” flag goes for £25 on Amazon. Rainbow badges are around 75p each – with that budget, roughly 300 pen-pushers would have been wearing one. No ceiling to Labour’s appetite for taxpayer-funded virtue signalling…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”