This did make me laugh.
New Labour have a problem with the outgoing Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannat. He has been telling things as they are.
So just like nice, ordinary people would do when they don’t agree with someone, New Labour make a series of Freedeom of Information requests to find out what his expenses claims have been.
In their eyes, and presumably because they put this officer in the same category of person as they are, they expected to find loads of expense claims so they could make them public and embarress the General in public.
Unfortunately for them, the General is a totally different type of person to them. His expense claims were not in thsame ball park as the defense minister.
Between April 1 2005 and March 31st 2009, the General claimed £19K in expenses.
In the same time period, the defense secretary Bob Ainsworth claimed £394K of expenses!
An own goal indeed. I know whom I would prefer to be running the country!!!
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