I see Gordon Brown’s and his Labour party pals are in Durham on the latest leg of their General Election campaign tour of Britain – paid for by you and me.
Today is the ninth so-called “away day” where, following a short Cabinet meeting and a stage-managed Q&A session in front of a sympathetic and stage-managed audience, individual ministers will fan-out on a series of visits aimed at attracting more votes for this breathtakingly bare-faced Government.
Each of these all-day stunts costs the taxpayer something in the region of £200,000 a time – and that’s before you add in the amount lost to the public purse as a result of paying Cabinet members a full-day’s salary whilst they are not doing their jobs.
On the day we discovered this Labour Government became the first in our nation’s history to borrow money in January - £4.3 billion of it – and increased the total bill for UK borrowing this year to £4,800 for each and every family, it does leave something of a bitter taste in your mouth.
Not that it will bother Gordon Brown and his cynical band of political opportunists one little bit.
Today is the ninth so-called “away day” where, following a short Cabinet meeting and a stage-managed Q&A session in front of a sympathetic and stage-managed audience, individual ministers will fan-out on a series of visits aimed at attracting more votes for this breathtakingly bare-faced Government.
Each of these all-day stunts costs the taxpayer something in the region of £200,000 a time – and that’s before you add in the amount lost to the public purse as a result of paying Cabinet members a full-day’s salary whilst they are not doing their jobs.
On the day we discovered this Labour Government became the first in our nation’s history to borrow money in January - £4.3 billion of it – and increased the total bill for UK borrowing this year to £4,800 for each and every family, it does leave something of a bitter taste in your mouth.
Not that it will bother Gordon Brown and his cynical band of political opportunists one little bit.
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