Team Miliband spent thousands on limousines while in government

Ed Miliband’s ministerial team spent thousands of pounds on luxury car hire and hotels while he was in power.
Mr Miliband’s office spent £125,000 on accommodation using a government credit card during his last nine months as energy secretary. It included £590 at the four-star Arctic Hotel in Greenland.
Mr Miliband’s department also spent £3,025 at Carey International Limos, a US limousine hire firm, between September 17 and 24, 2009.
On those dates Mr Miliband was attending a United Nations summit in New York and Washington. His team also visited Bali, Mexico, Barcelona, and made three trips to Venice within three months, according to bills released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Bob Neill MP, the vice chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “Like all good champagne socialists, the Labour leader has no respect for the public purse.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10538643/Team-Miliband-spent-thousands-on-limousines-while-in-government.html


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Is that really any worse than the tens of thousands spent on biscuits by the Eric Pickles office?

I think trying to portray labour as worse than others is strange as all politicians are riding the same gravy train.

PhilDidge wrote:Ed Miliband’s ministerial team spent thousands of pounds on luxury car hire and hotels while he was in power.
Mr Miliband’s office spent £125,000 on accommodation using a government credit card during his last nine months as energy secretary. It included £590 at the four-star Arctic Hotel in Greenland.
Mr Miliband’s department also spent £3,025 at Carey International Limos, a US limousine hire firm, between September 17 and 24, 2009.
On those dates Mr Miliband was attending a United Nations summit in New York and Washington. His team also visited Bali, Mexico, Barcelona, and made three trips to Venice within three months, according to bills released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Bob Neill MP, the vice chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “Like all good champagne socialists, the Labour leader has no respect for the public purse.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10538643/Team-Miliband-spent-thousands-on-limousines-while-in-government.html


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You only got as far as reading up to the bit I've highlighted I see.

You should have read the rest which said...

About 130,000 officials have access to government procurement cards. The bill last year came to £1.1 billion, a sum no lower than in Labour’s last year in power.

A Labour source said: “This is a pathetic attempt by the Conservatives to distract from David Cameron’s cost-of-living crisis”

  

How does that make Labour excused from doing the same?

DOH

I thought it was hilarious to show up how much money labour squander when not even in power


Right really have to go, see you later Irn Curtain

Yea right, so politicians have to go on official government business looking good, can just see what would have been said if they had arrived in jeans in a clapped out mini!

PhilDidge wrote:How does that make Labour excused from doing the same?

DOH

I thought it was hilarious to show up how much money labour squander when not even in power


Right really have to go, see you later Irn Curtain

It isn't excusing them, It's showing they are no worse than this lot.

Your lack of sleep is clouding your judgement. Sleep deprivation is not healthy.

Irn Bru wrote:

PhilDidge wrote:How does that make Labour excused from doing the same?

DOH

I thought it was hilarious to show up how much money labour squander when not even in power


Right really have to go, see you later Irn Curtain

It isn't excusing them, It's showing they are no worse than this lot.

Your lack of sleep is clouding your judgement. Sleep deprivation is not healthy.

yes but Labour do it do they not Irn?

Irn Bru wrote:

PhilDidge wrote:Ed Miliband’s ministerial team spent thousands of pounds on luxury car hire and hotels while he was in power.
Mr Miliband’s office spent £125,000 on accommodation using a government credit card during his last nine months as energy secretary. It included £590 at the four-star Arctic Hotel in Greenland.
Mr Miliband’s department also spent £3,025 at Carey International Limos, a US limousine hire firm, between September 17 and 24, 2009.
On those dates Mr Miliband was attending a United Nations summit in New York and Washington. His team also visited Bali, Mexico, Barcelona, and made three trips to Venice within three months, according to bills released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Bob Neill MP, the vice chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “Like all good champagne socialists, the Labour leader has no respect for the public purse.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10538643/Team-Miliband-spent-thousands-on-limousines-while-in-government.html


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You only got as far as reading up to the bit I've highlighted I see.

You should have read the rest which said...

About 130,000 officials have access to government procurement cards. The bill last year came to £1.1 billion, a sum no lower than in Labour’s last year in power.

A Labour source said: “This is a pathetic attempt by the Conservatives to distract from David Cameron’s cost-of-living crisis”

  

...on the ball as usual Irn!!!...love it!