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Prescott’s office splurged £52,000 on luxury hotels and meals at top restaurants in just nine months

June 30th, 2012 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Gerri Peev


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18:03 EST, 29 June 2012

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18:04 EST, 29 June 2012

John Prescott’s department amassed £52,000 of credit card bills in less than a year, splashing out on luxury hotels and meals at fine restaurants, it has emerged.

There was a three-figure bill for one restaurant in Ottawa called Fat Tuesdays – and a transaction of nearly £650 from luxury jewellery store Links of London.

The expenditure occurred shortly after the former Labour cabinet minister was given his own Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with 18 staff, after being stripped of his ministerial duties over planning, housing and local government in 2006.

Champagne socialists? John Prescott¿s department spent £52,000 in less than a year, splashing out on luxury hotels and meals at fine restaurants, it has emerged

Healthy appetites: John Prescott’s department spent £52,000 in less
than a year, splashing out on luxury hotels and meals at fine
restaurants, it has emerged

More than £52,000 was run up in credit card bills between May of that year and February 2007.

Records could only be found for £38,722 worth of transactions.

The details were released by Local Government Minister Bob Neill in a parliamentary answer to senior Lib Dem MP Sir Alan Beith.

While Lord Prescott is understood to insist he did not use the credit card personally, critics have raised questions over whether he is a suitable candidate to be police commissioner of Humberside, where he will control a large budget, if he failed to crack down on excessive spending by his officials.

The details were released by Local Government Minister Bob Neill in a parliamentary answer to senior Lib Dem MP Sir Alan Beith

The details were released in a parliamentary answer to senior Lib Dem MP Sir Alan Beith

Receipts during his time at the short-lived Deputy Prime Minister’s office also revealed lavish hospitality, such as a £547 excursion on the London Eye and extravagant restaurant meals.

There is even one unexplained entry for £649.50 at jewellery shop Links of London on October 20, 2006. That same day, a card user ran up a £440.25 tab at the Marriott hotel in London.

Just days after losing his ministerial portfolio in May, Lord Prescott went to Montreal to give a speech on climate change.

In Ottawa, someone with access to the department’s credit card enjoyed a £106.99 spend at an establishment known as Fat Tuesdays.

A hotel bill of £3,253.62 was also run up at Chateau Laurier in the same city.

Staff also enjoyed stays at five star hotels from Brussels to Beijing, Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul.

Local Government Minister Grant Shapps said it appeared Lord Prescott’s office ‘went on an extended farewell tour of some of the globe’s finest catering establishments paid for by you and me’.

‘These revelations raise the very serious question of whether he’s the right man to take charge of a multi-million pound police budget given his cavalier attitude towards public money.’

Lord Prescott declined to comment. However, sources close to the peer claimed he had no personal access to any departmental credit card.

A previous investigation into unusual payments on his department’s credit card, conducted by the-then top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell, cleared him of any wrongdoing.

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What’s that old saying ‘set one to catch one’. Fits the bill here all right – – – –

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OK. Do you have the figures from the offices of other senior politicians to compare? Otherwise these are completely meaningless figures, and another unfounded attack on Prescott. Pathetic.

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