In this case, the bill was put under election expenses, and so supposedly covered by the Labour Party. But it does look like the line between Labour Party expenditure and Government (taxpayers' money) expenditure is pretty blurred. Anyway if they're prepared to blow thousands of pounds on utter trivia like this, then it's a good indication of how they waste taxpayers' money as well.
After all the fuss over rich donors to the Labour Party being illegally given knighthoods and other honours for doing so, the Government would like to avoid any further bad publicity by forcing the taxpayer to pay for political parties and their uncontrolled spending. So in future the taxpayer may well be paying for all this kind of thing anyway.
I am waiting for Cherie Blair's hairdresser to get a knighthood for his sterling work for our wonderful leader's wife. In fact I reckon Tony deserves a knighthood for having to look at her every day.
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