Organic meals: £27,000. Union flags: £163,000. Two Downing Street paintings: £100,000.
The numbers seem large but let’s not dwell on what amounts to mere chump change, the fiscal lubricant that keeps the wheels of government turning. After all, in the last year of Tony Blair’s premiership, Downing Street advertised for a butler on £50,000 a year, not to forget a certain “Blair Force One” proposed for a mere £12 million a year…
Or isn’t that how political decadence usually gets spun?
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