Prime Minister David Cameron is a man who talks a lot of shit.
He is insistent that we need to cut public expenditure.
He claims that he wants the Con Dem coalition to be the greenest government ever.
And yet in June, he spent £303,006 of our money on a four day trip to Canada. £303,006 on travel, food and accommodation in FOUR DAYS? Perhaps part of the massive cost was the insanely environmentally un-friendly private jet he chartered for him and his mates…
You can find these figures and many more in the Cabinet’s figures on ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings with external organisations.
The figures also include a list of presents received by Cameron, Clegg and Co.
Just for fun, let’s see what they all got in the period May-July 2010.
Cameron was given jewellery, bowls and boxes, tennis racquets and wine, whisky, books, hampers, an iPad, a wallhanging, a pen set, leather goods, ties, more jewellery, a clock, a painting, another iPad, and two rugs.
And Clegg got… nothing. Not a thing.