Living in a skip
April 28, 2021•169 words
Sarah Vine, who writes for the Daily Mail and is, coincidentally, married to Michael Gove, a conservative politician said, in an interview for the BBC's Today programme this morning:
The thing about the whole No 10 refurbishment thing is that the prime minister can’t be expected to live in a skip.
Let's look at that. The prime minister is allowed to claim £30,000 each year for decorating his flat. In the year to March 2020, UK median household income was £29,900. So the prime minister can claim, for decorating, slightly more than the median income of the people he pretends to govern, from their taxes.
But it looks like he actually spent £200,000 of someone else's money on tarting up his flat (which, by the way, he is living in rent-free): £200,000 will buy you a three-bedroomed house close to where I live.
You know what? Sarah Vine is wrong: Boris Johnson deserves to live in a fucking skip, and he should be installed in one at once.