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…
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”