After hearing how celebrities like Chris Evans are guilty of spending their own cash pointlessly, it seems British politicians are more than happy to spend tax payer money on stuff they don’t need. The Mirror reported the scandal that British tax-payers spent £10,000 on Tony Blair’s kitchen, paid for Gordon Brown’s SKY TV subscription and splashed out £6,607 for John Prescott to buy mock Tudor boards and home repairs.

Prescott’s need for new flooring may not be due to his eating habits, which is of course a serious issue. For instance, the UK daily sport sensitively addressed Prescott’s bulimia announcement:

Splashed on the front page [John Prescott's struggle with bulimia], next to a busty, auburn-haired beauty, with the sensitive headline, “Spew Jags!” Inside, the paper asked, “Who ate all the pies?” “Me!”, Prescott responded with a bulbous speech bubble, “Now where’s the bog?”

A bit harsh but Prescott does seem to have succumbed to the deadly sins of Greed and Gluttony leaving UK tax payers to cough up for his coughing up:

They [expense claims] showed Mr Prescott claiming £3,200 for food over eight months

The Mirror rounds up it’s article with a list of other pointless purchases that wage earners are subsidising:

BLAIR
New Ivory kitchen and repairs to an Aga cooker
£10,600
PREZZA (a nickname for Prescot and publicity for his new book)
Mock Tudor boards on his Hull house… and food bill
£9,800
BROWN
Work on his new kitchen, satellite TV and lightbulbs
£10,800
CAMERON
£1,741.83 a month for the mortgage on his cottage in Oxfordshire. £65.50 for a telephone bill.
OSBORNE
£800 for food. £1,646 a month mortgage claims. £390 for cleaning of his rural farm.
BECKETT
£13,424 on house repairs. £679 for a gas fire. £600 claim for plants and a pergola rejected.
CAMPBELL
£1,100 for food over 12 weeks. £335 on parking at his London flat. £200 for laundry

It certainly pays well to be a politician these days. Perfect timing too, since the rest of the the UK are suffering from high inflation and energy costs, increasing unemployment and a housepricecrash!