Tories careful with public spending? Don’t make me laugh!

A mixture of greed and incompetence. Here are just some of the notable times when the Tories happily wasted your hard-earned money.

15/06/2013 £120Bn of your money down the drain EVERY year: The astonishing Whitehall waste that could send every British family on an annual luxury holiday

5/09/2013 Tory waste £34M so far on failed welfare reform according to Government’s own auditors

29/12/2013 Tories waste £17M of your money on jewellery, hotels and fancy dress costumes

23/08/2016 Tory DWP spent £92,249.86 taxpayers’ cash trying to stop public seeing slave labour firms

28/07/2016 £1.9M wasted on untaken flights

15/07/2017 Tory Kent County Councillors vote to give themselves a 15% pay rise

16/07/2017 David Cameron blew almost £9K taxpayers’ cash for a party

20/09/2017 Chris Grayling allows HS2 staff to waste £5M on train fares

6/01/2018 Over £12M wasted by DWP in 2017 advertising themselves

27/09/2018 Tories wasted £40K of your money fighting to prevent you knowing how rarely northern powerhouse minister visited north

23/09/2018 Universal Credit costs more to administer than the six benefits it replaced, says NAO

24/01/2019 Tories wasted over £117M in England on compensation for poor roads instead of fixing them

13/02/2019 Bungling Boris “can’t remember” why he wasted £43M taxpayers money on garden bridge despite zero construction

31/07/2019 £225,458 blown by Tories on ‘misleading’ adverts praising Universal Credit

14/01/2020 Bercow wasted £1K of your money on taxi fare and £12K on leaving parties

9/03/2020 Tory DWP loses more cases fighting disability discrimination than any other UK employer and they’ve still learned nothing

16/09/2020 £760K of your money wasted on Liz Truss vanity project

17/10/2020 Cabinet Office to waste £60K per year on photographer to make them look like they’re working in your best interest

17/12/2020 Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending under the Tories

4/03/2021 Patel bullying case dropped in exchange for £340K of your money

5/11/2021 Tories are needlessly costing you £1M PER DAY by improperly storing PPE in grotesque waste of public money

1/01/2022 Tories blow £14.7Bn on wastful projects and duff deals

7/01/2022 Dominic Raab’s department wasted ‘staggering’ £238M on array of botched projects last year

13/01/2022 Liz Truss ignored advice not to use a posh Mayfair club to wine and dine a US trade official with a £1,400 meal

1/02/2022 Tories write off £9 billion of your money in unusable PPE

28/02/2022 Greedy Tory Shapps wastes nearly £100K of your money on company to create viral videos of himself

10/07/2022 Over £800M wasted choosing single use PPE over greener alternative

29/09/2022 Tories try to defend spending £130K on legal advice for their illegal lockdown parties

9/10/2022 Tories spending taxpayers’ cash ‘with reckless abandon’ after £4.1Bn written off

3/11/2022 Tories waste money to fly Suella Braverman 19 miles to Manston asylum centre by Chinook helicopter via the coast ‘to see the boats’

5/11/2022 Tories set to spend another £35M of your money on lawyers to defend themselves in Covid inquiry

29/11/2022 Dominic Raab blew £23K taxpayers money on first class flight instead of flying business class for £2.4K

13/12/2022 Tory Cabinet Office decides to waste more taxpayers’ money on Boris Johnson’s partygate bills

13/12/2022 Evidence emerges that the Tories can’t even manage their personal finances let alone those of the country

15/12/2022 Liz Truss blew £370K of taxpayers money on G20 flight to Bali – then flew back to launch PM bid

We asked the Prime Minister’s Office to provide a copy of letters and memos sent out to government departments since 2020 instructing them to be careful about spending needless amounts of taxpayers money. After a load of faffing about they finally told us they didn’t do any of that. This demonstrates that the Tories do not care about such things.

9/01/2023 No money for nurses but Dominic Raab gets to blow £320k on advisers to help save his job

14/01/2023 Boris Johnson put £4,445 dinner on government credit card for you to pay

17/01/2023 Personalised lectern used by Liz Truss for 49 days cost you £4000

9/02/2023 Tory MP wants to be paid more money and given a medal when stepping down

12/02/2023 Tory ministers accused of charging their ‘luxury lifestyle’ to taxpayers

13/02/2023 Tory Treasury blew £3000 of your money on arty photos

13/02/2023 Tory Foreign Office splashed £500,000 on lavish rugs and wallpapers in just 12 months

13/02/2023 Labour condemns Tory abuse of taxpayers’ money as GPC files released

16/02/2023 We ask DWP for a copy of the document(s) and underpinning law concerning the Secretary of State’s ‘duty’ to protect public funds

08/07/2023 Cabinet Office tried to conceal that Johnson spent £800K of your money on a Union Jack painting

10/09/2023 Tories Accused of Losing Billions in Taxpayers’ Money to Fraud and Corruption

23/09/2023 Tory Oliver Dowden takes near-empty RAF plane to New York to discuss climate change

12/12/2023 Rishi Sunak wasted £192,739 of your money in trying to block the Covid Inquiry obtaining information from government

28/04/2024 David Cameron wastes £42 million of your money for ‘jaunt’ around Asia

The public will still be paying for all their financial blunders long after they have been voted out.

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