In the death throes of his government, Gordon Brown and his stooges threw away £1,300,000,000 of taxpayers' money in a final burst of reckless spending. This is where some of the cash went . . . |
Designer sofas for "stressed-out" Dept. of Communities & Local Govt. staff . . . £135,000 The inquest on Princess Diana . . . £492,000 New furniture for DCLG staff . . . £2.8million Pensions for the Royal Household . . . £5.6million Maintenance of historic buildings . . . £37million Promoting gipsy encampments . . . £38.4million The Electoral Commission, which failed to check election fraud . . . £48million Promoting ballet and music . . . £50million Kew Gardens . . . £68.3million Refurbishing the National Audit Office's offices . . . £82million Preparing for the 2011 census . . . £87million Promoting Labour's "Natural Environment Enjoyment' programme . . . £95million Pay & Perks for MPs . . . £178million For a National Measurements Office to force traders to use kilograms instead of pounds & ounces . . . £148.7million The quango 'Natural England' . . . £442million Poverty reduction payments to wealty countries in Asia . . . £1.3billion Aid to EU countries . . . £1.6billion Consultants to the New Labour regime . . . £1.8billion Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa . . . £2.5billion Gold-plated pensions for senior Whitehall civil servants . . . £14billion Nationalizing the Northern Rock bank . . . £20.3billion Nationalizing Bradford and Bingley . . . £24.6billion Bailing out banks other than the Northern Rock & Bradford and Bingley . . . £132.4billion Source: the government's "Combined Online Information System" |