Please, someone, tell me this is a joke...

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4066011

"Conservatives today accused Labour of wasting more than £1 billion of taxpayers’ money on furnishing and decorating Government offices during their eight years in power.

The bill included £50,000 on plants and £82,000 for relocating a fitness suite at John Prescott’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, as well as £40 million on furniture across nine departments, according to figures published in the Sunday Telegraph."

Makes me want to :gag:

John Prescott is a tw@

The man has 2 Jaguar cars FFS!

Originally posted by Rich
John Prescott is a tw@

The man has 2 Jaguar cars FFS!

Rich, Shock Horror! You didn't call him a chav :P are you not well :D

£50000 on plants?? For one building? What kind of plants are they? For that price I'd want the entre contents of a greenhouse at Kew Gardens, or at least a forests worth of trees :D Someone must have seen him coming ;)

Originally posted by Rich
John Prescott is a tw@

Not known for your diplomacy are you Rich :roll:

Originally posted by Rich
The man has 2 Jaguar cars FFS!

And your point is ? :suspect:

His personal property is not the issue.. Its our money he's wasting on flowers and office furniture :loopy: Jeez!

Makes you think about all these Civil Service job cuts ? Are they to make way for something useful ? Like a bunch of Carnations :confused:

:D Maybe he did his shopping here (http://www.homestore.com/HomeGarden/Gardening/Features/Plants/ExpensivePlants.asp?poe=homestore)
and had them shipped over :P

Or perhaps he got a job lot of these (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/biologicalscience/story/0,9834,769934,00.html)

:P


This is fun :)

I will send John an email later asking him to send me an Araucia Araucana if he has any going spare! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Deejay
Not known for your diplomacy are you Rich :roll:



And your point is ? :suspect:

His personal property is not the issue.. Its our money he's wasting on flowers and office furniture :loopy: Jeez!

Makes you think about all these Civil Service job cuts ? Are they to make way for something useful ? Like a bunch of Carnations :confused:

My point is that no wonder this Country is on a downward financial spiral when John "****** balls" Prescott forks out ridiculous amounts of money on stuff he doesn't really need.

I mean, 50 Grand on plants?! WTF?! :loopy:

Originally posted by beckyaa
The bill included £50,000 on plants

If only he had said something - he could have had my plants for £40k :rolleyes: :loopy: :hihi:

Originally posted by Edd
If only he had said something - he could have had my plants for £40k :rolleyes: :loopy: :hihi:

Its illegal to purchase them kinda plants Edd :hihi:

Lol .. Where the hell is he gonna put all these stupid plants anyway? and what kind where they? roses!?

Well at least he will have a nice forest to hide in when everyone comes looking for his guts for garters. Not sure he will camouflage very well though...

I take it he's relocated his fitness suite to the Pizza place just round the corner.

It was £50k for the whole department (6,500 people in offices around the country), not his private office.

Originally posted by Fellrunner
It was £50k for the whole department (6,500 people in offices around the country), not his private office.

Well of course it had to be really....but thats not as much fun is it?! :hihi:

Originally posted by beckyaa
£82,000 for relocating a fitness suite at John Prescott’s Office

Where did he have it re-located to? A skip in the car park I bet :hihi: Probably was replaced with a pie shop :clap:

Fair point!

:D :D :D

Originally posted by Fellrunner
It was £50k for the whole department (6,500 people in offices around the country), not his private office.

That may be so, but that is still over £7.50 per person...

Remind me to get a job in one of his offices next time I am looking - I had to spend a whoping £1.50 buying my own plant from ikea to go on my desk.

Maybe he just doesn't have green fingers, so they need replacing often?

Most of the plants he's spent money on are working in those offices with him.

I would say that John is a Hydnophytum formicarium.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://home.t-online.de/home/schmid.juergen/fat_plants/images/Hydnophytum_formicarium1_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.t-online.de/home/schmid.juergen/fat_plants/pages/Hydnophytum_formicarium1_jpg.htm&h=480&w=640&sz=42&tbnid=z-n0p-gpihsJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&start=7&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfat%2Bplants%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3 DG

And Tony Blair is quite plainly - a weed.

If this story is true and it probably has some basis in fact then surely it would provide amazing television footage to haul the people responsible in front of a live audience and make them explain their actions and the reasoning behind their decision. It'll never happen because if it did we'd probably all discover what a bunch of money grabbing, my plant is bigger than your plant idiots we've got who profess to be serving our interests.

I don't see why they shouldn't spend some money on giving people a pleasant working environment, I bet the council spent more than 50K on plants and flowers for Sheffield city centre and council offices last year and I think it was money well spent.

Originally posted by nick2
I don't see why they shouldn't spend some money on giving people a pleasant working environment, I bet the council spent more than 50K on plants and flowers for Sheffield city centre and council offices last year and I think it was money well spent.

I don't pay tax so that people in John Prescott's Office have a nice plant on their desk - they can bloomin' (sorry!) well buy their own like everyone else!!

As for the plants or Sheffield city centre - everyone who pays tax gets to enjoy these plants, whereas most of us are certainly never going to be invited to visit John's Chelsea Flower Show style office...