No surprise really, better to hit the poor than cutback.

Forgets to say his original estimate was £1.4 mill.

 

£680k not bad going really.

It beggars belief doesn't it, will turn off news tonight before my head explodes, my pay has been frozen for a year already and that freeze is now going to be at least 3 more years, I am sick of these people I really am , right now where's the wine

I'm no Tory, but a very trusted source informed me that the Camerons used some of their own income (wealth) to tart up the joint. Sam Cam's mum supplied a lot of her company's furniture (OKA by Lady Astor).

 

And that new fitted kitchen will benefit all subsequent incumbents (unless they rip out the cupboards and light bulbs like Thatcher allegedly did )

Really? It was hardly a slum dwelling before!  Gordon Brown managed to live there last year without tarting it up on the backs of the taxpayer while preaching austerity.

It was! I've seen it. Apparently Cherie wept.

Admittedly, John and Norma Major would probably have kitted it out in cheesy rustic charm, dado rails, Aga cookers and Laura Ashley,

 

However, neither Major, Brown nor Blair were ever heads of a government preaching belt tightening.  At the core of this is a rank hypocrisy - he's hardly mucking in with the hoi polloi, is he?

There's always been hypocrisy. That former Labour Speaker rinsed the public purse for millions.

edit: Micheal Martin.

I suspect the next incumbent will simply rip it out and replace it with a kitchen of their choice.  Sam Cameron didn't like the style of kitchen the Blairs had had installed so had it replaced.

So much for that well used phrase "we're all in this together."

 

Fair enough, but he was only the Speaker rather than the head of a government, with a very specific message.  For example, I have no idea what John Bercow has spent on his residence since the election, but he's the current Speaker, not head of a government telling us we all have to take hardship on the chin for the good of the country. 

 

Anyway, Micheal Martin wasn't the 'Labour Speaker' he was just the Speaker, who happened to be an elected Labour MP.  The speaker is a non-partisan role.

I know that. I was trying to remember his name so slipped the Labour bit as an aide-memoire. Regardless of the post being non-partisan they still remain a member of their party, and sit on their party bench when/if they are elevated to the H.O.L.

Or the Big Society.  Why didn't he recruit a bunch of volunteers (or even do it himself) to tart up the kitchen.

Good point

 

 

He couldn't find a kitchen fitter or a plumber in the Bullingdon Club 

 

 

Checked again, not a blister or overall in sight 

 Is that Boris in front ?

 

 

It is Skylark 

but he didn't rip out an old kitchen did he?  their home now has two kitchens

A Number 10 spokesman said: ‘This spend relates to the Downing Street Building Modernisation Programme launched in 2006, under the last Government, to address structural repairs and the renewal of failing infrastructure having gone without refurbishment for some 50 years.
The Downing Street buildings require consultation from English Heritage before being renovated

'This programme of work is still ongoing. Downing Street is a Grade I listed building. As such it requires a certain level of maintenance. The Prime Minister has paid for changes to the flat out of his own pocket, beyond the annual maintenance budget threshold.’

One source said: ‘The PM did not turn up on day one and order an expensive renovation. The programme of works was already in place.’

 

In 2007/08, when Tony Blair was in residence, work at Number 10 cost £1.3million.

I see pictures like that and want to start building a guillotine

That photo was extensively emailed to the old bill by loads of peeps on fb who were looking for the students who caused the recent cuts riot 

i have some wood and a rusty blade - don't bother to sharpen it

LOL veggie, I suppose we should be grateful that the rest of those silver spooned t**ts aren't in the Tory cabinet... yet!

I was about to say I thought I'd heard they had two kitchens at the behest of SamCam  is she part of  this silly fad where you have two kitchens - one for display purposes and the other that looks like a bombs hit it (hidden away so no one sees it) thereby giving the illusion that the cook is a domestic goddess?? 

This quote is from The Guardian.  And as you will see from my other post above ^^^^^ the Blairs spent considerably more (well double actually) than The Camerons.

 

The Camerons occupy the four-bedroom flat above 11 Downing Street, as the Blairs did before them, because it is bigger than the one above No 10. The kitchen is in addition to a second catering kitchen in the property and a planning application for structural work lodged with Westminster council last year to move a doorway and build a wall. The work is particularly costly because of the historic nature of the building. English Heritage are involved in decisions about nearly all modifications.

Maybe they could have all employed an intern.

 

Oh, for an Uzi...

I hear ya. Years trying to sleep or read when that shower of muppets were on a mash-up around a quadrant 

Nightmare!

Bunch of animals - maybe that's why they had tails