Something for nothing
The Independent
Every member of the Cabinet offered a gas-guzzling Jaguar worth £50,000
By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor Published: 19 February 2006
Every Cabinet minister is to be offered a brand new Jaguar XJ limousine worth at least £50,000.
The upgrade is being justified on security grounds, but was attacked by Conservative Shadow transport secretary Chris Grayling last night as “the act of a government that has been in power too long".
Carole Malone Sunday Mirror 26th February
MOTOR MOUTH
WHICHEVER wassock it was who, when it was announced that every Government minister is to get a £50,000 Jaguar paid for by the taxpayer, responded with: "It's important ministers have a fast car that can outmanoeuvre attackers," ought to be shot on the basis he's too stupid to live.
Outmanoeuvre attackers for God's sake!!! The only people who'd think seriously about attacking our ministers are likely to be al-Qaeda terrorists. And as stylish as they are, I don't see a Jaguar being able to outmanoeuvre a suicide bomber driving a 10-ton truck full of dynamite.
Had this idiot just told the truth and said: "Our ministers are greedy, vain and want to be driven around in a flash car" then we'd have understood.
Comment from John Emmerson-Jones
22 Ministers have been given new Jaguar cars at £50.000 each! Totalling some £1,100,000, FREE! Bicycles would have been a better idea for these incompetents. A Jaguar for every Minister? I totally support that idea, providing that the animals are not fed for a week before handing them over!