DESNZ civil servants have spent an eye-watering £88,947 on gift vouchers since January this year to June. No need to tighten the purse strings when it’s other people’s money…
Government figures reveal that in the first six months of this year, pen-pushers splashed thousands using their taxpayer-funded credit cards (GPCs) on gift voucher company “Appreciate Group plc”. The firm offers “Love2shop Gift Card, a pre-paid gift card; Love2shop Gift Voucher, a multi-retailer voucher; Love2shop Holidays.” Retail therapy after being dragged to the office three days a week…
For that you could:
£64,485 of this was spent after Labour’s so-called “immediate freeze” on GPCs. The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”