Starmer's vision quest
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AndyRM
Elder Goth
The Foreign Office employs 17,500 people.
So that's about £28 per person.
It's not a great look, but (once again) isn't the hilarious gotcha you think it is.
Beebo
Guru
The foreign office also includes all the overseas ambassadors and diplomats.
It is basically their job to get the forerro rocher out and make a good impression.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
I was trying to keep it simple for him.
dutchguylivingintheuk
Veteran
Also nonsense, unless you seriously think they are going to invite lower level staff. These numbers on itself don't really say that much, as it doesn't provide a comparison how much did the tories spend in their first 4 months in the foreign office, if you have those numbers it would be a bit more fair alltough in all honesty a tory goverment that lasts longer than 4 months is a stretch by all means.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
I'm sorry, how is it nonsense?
I don't have the figures for the Conservatives first four months Foreign Office spend but would hazard a guess that it would be about the same.
HMS_Dave
Regular
I know I don't. I walk into Tesco with an empty trolley, fill it full of food and then i simply walk back out again and nobody says anything. The security guard just nods and gives me the thumbs up.
Great ay it.
CXRAndy
Veteran
Well that actually happens now in many towns and cities in the UK.
HMS_Dave
Regular
Oh yeah, just keep it below 200 quid and the shop assistants will even load your car for you.
CXRAndy
Veteran
Nah they are literally carrying as much as they can, security do absolutely nothing in virtually all situations. There are loads upon loads of clips online
And maybe even some of that might be recovered through HMRC. One job I had for a bit each Christmas the company would give every employee a Christmas hamper as a "thank you" and each tax year the declarations the company sent in to HMRC would include a declaration of the value of the hamper which would be added to out income for the year and taxed at whatever rate we paid income tax at.
So for Foreign Office probably depends on the circumstances.
Ian
dutchguylivingintheuk
Veteran
My point is that the whoe disussion about 500k for 4 months is nonsense if you don't have numbers to compare it with.
Just to be clear that is not aimed at you but whoever brings this at news, i know the bar of being an ''news reporter'' is not very high but least it should involve is showing the full numbers, not just one number to stage something that causes outrage.
