I wasn’t planning on having a go at the Tory AM’s that travelled to Brussels twice, and as has now been revealed, Madrid also on taxpayers money. It is estimated that the cost of the trips comes in just under £19,000.
I have no idea what went on these jollies and they may very well be legitimate travels that have aided the group and by default Wales. However having read the excuses the put up in today’s Western Mail I am inclined to take a rather more critical stance.
The Tories claimed that their second trip to Brussels, which cost the public £5,239.46, was instrumental in drawing down funds from the European Investment Bank. This trip of course took place in March 2008 whilst Ieuan Wyn Jones announced in the Autumn of 2007 that the scheme the Tories are taking credit for was to get the go ahead.
It is one thing to spend taxpayer’s money on legitimate fact finding missions. It is another to do so and justify them by claiming credit for actions that pre-dated the visits. It makes you think what exactly was Bourne and team actually doing there on behalf of their constituents if the things they claim to have done was in fact nothing to do with them?
Side Note:
Is this not the oddest picture you have ever seen of a political group? Ignoring the fact that Brynle Williams seems to be trying to make love to a dog why have the male Tory AM’s decided to wear every different colour tie they can get their hands on? Someone should check Peter Black hasn't been robbed
I have no idea what went on these jollies and they may very well be legitimate travels that have aided the group and by default Wales. However having read the excuses the put up in today’s Western Mail I am inclined to take a rather more critical stance.
The Tories claimed that their second trip to Brussels, which cost the public £5,239.46, was instrumental in drawing down funds from the European Investment Bank. This trip of course took place in March 2008 whilst Ieuan Wyn Jones announced in the Autumn of 2007 that the scheme the Tories are taking credit for was to get the go ahead.
It is one thing to spend taxpayer’s money on legitimate fact finding missions. It is another to do so and justify them by claiming credit for actions that pre-dated the visits. It makes you think what exactly was Bourne and team actually doing there on behalf of their constituents if the things they claim to have done was in fact nothing to do with them?
Side Note:
Is this not the oddest picture you have ever seen of a political group? Ignoring the fact that Brynle Williams seems to be trying to make love to a dog why have the male Tory AM’s decided to wear every different colour tie they can get their hands on? Someone should check Peter Black hasn't been robbed
4 comments:
None of those ties are hideous enough to have been owned by Peter.
Don't worry I would not wear any of those ties in public.
Well let's see Plaid hit the tories for this - so far the only people making any capital out of the story are Labour, hardly innocent themselves of having snouts firmly implanted in the proverbial trough.
Plaid - and IWJ - ought to point out that their excuse is a pathetic lie too, and demand that they repay the dosh forthwith.
You're wrong about Brynle and the dog. The dog wasn't interested.
Bob,
I think a spokesperson for IWJ does say in the WM piece that the Tories excuses are outrageous.
As for the dog, I don't blame it!
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