Thursday 20 March 2008

Going to pot.


Again from Drumlanrig ... "Has the Labour-run Scotland Office gone potty? In a parliamentary answer last week, minister David Cairns revealed that the Whitehall department has shelled out £5,318 on plants over the past five years at their London pad Dover House, a Grade 1-listed mansion in Whitehall. Cairns does not reveal whether ministers have a preference for weeping figs or Swiss cheese plants but he does assure us that all expenditure was incurred "in accordance with the principles of managing public money and the Treasury handbook on regularity and propriety". Quite so."

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