David Maddox: How Holyrood tightened its belt for the recession
The Scottish Parliament authorities spent £16,949 on 13 new tables and 48 new soft chairs for the Garden Lobby.I have pictured some of them (right) outside Holyrood's members restaurant, using my mobile phone's not particularly good camera, so apologies for the dubious picture quality.
But getting back to the cash, admittedly such a sum would not suffice for the back room (or even dry rot treatment or swimming pool garden) of an MP's third home, but it does seem bizarre when Scotland is supposed to be short of money. The old furnishings seemed to be in reasonable shape.
Anyway here is the official spokesman's explanation: "We have increased the seating capacity in the Garden Lobby by more than 50 per cent. This is one of the busiest parts of the building and on business days in particular there can be a shortage of seating for people holding meetings or meeting visitors. The old tables and seats will being re-used throughout the campus."
This is not the same official spokesman who is about to be recruited for £38,000 a year at the spendthrift parliament.
Labels: David Maddox, Scottish Parliament
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Strange, I could have sworn there was another post here yesterday.
Maybe it was the one with eighteen comments disagreeing with David Maddox.
Not all of them disagreed, but it was a healthy discussion which I enjoyed reading it. Unfortunately there was a mistake on the post so I decided to remove it - David
Presumably you will be boycotting these seats and refusing to sit on them, such is the disgust in the Scotsman offices at this apparent profligacy. They should have kept the old chairs and just let people stand - especially elderly constituents and young children who are in the garden lobby visiting their MSPs.
You'll also be refusing to buy any MSP a coffee or drink on Scotsman expenses, or have anything bought for you that may be claimed back on expenses, we can assume?
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The usual procedure if there's a mistake in a post is to amend it and put a note at the end, not delete it. It wouldn't occur to me to delete a post as I consider that would reflect badly or myself and also insult my readers.
If it was completely necessary, for reasons beyond my control, to remove a post, I would at least inform my readers in a separate short post.
Perhaps that's the difference between the paid and unpaid bloggers, who knows.
Right, now I'm confused - you delete my comment which was free from gibberish, abuse and paranoia but you're happy to keep some of the insane ramblings in other post commentary? Can't you handle a bit of constructive criticism?
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