Ministry of Defence staff racked up £16.3 million on taxpayer-funded procurement cards in March alone, with the spending including £133,000 in restaurants and bars and stays at The Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons. Wasn’t Starmer supposed to snip these cards in half?
The transparency data, quietly published this week, reveals 5,975 transactions on MoD electronic purchasing cards supposedly reserved for “low risk, low complexity” purchases under £12,000. Yet dozens of transactions smash through that limit, including a single £49,859 payment to consultants and a massive £37,705 hotel bill…
Someone even found time for a £11,457 restaurant blowout. Fourteen separate transactions were logged at bars, pubs and nightclubs, totalling over £17,000. One particularly boozy session cost £3,780. There was £2,688 spent at a snooker hall, £1,325 at a cosmetics shop, and over a grand at a florist…
The hotel bill for the month came in at a cool £1.4 million across 712 transactions, with The Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Hyatt and assorted Hiltons all featuring. By the way, our Navy basically doesn’t exist…
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.”