Tax-payers Money WASTED AGAIN

Has any of you read the article in today's "THE DAILY TELEGRAPH" under
"£ 7 MILLION TAXPAYER BILL FOR REFURBISHING THE SPEAKER'S HOUSE"
The speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has revealed there has been more than £1 MILLION pounds a year been spent on his property since he became Speaker of the House . The building is a grade I listed. The work on it which includes his "Grace &Fvour Residence " also includes State Rooms, &some offices is all being paid for by the INCOME-TAX PAYERS' OF BRITAIN. Some money has gone to the purchase of Silver-Ware too. Total thus far reads £ 6,918, 393 inclusive of VAT , New bed mattresses cost £7,500 for LINDSAY'S BEDS , Cosmetic wall Mirrors £384,00 / 2 bathroom mirrors £336.00 / £421.00 on 2 table lamos.
ALL THIS AT A TIME when we are all being asked to tighten our belts ,yet such extravagance is being wasted on these like ? By the way this guy is a Labour person from CHORLEY who is living in the lap of luxury when i guess a hell of his constituants are going to food banks . .
I highlight this cost solely because of a thread i wrote recently concerning an MP,Coffee the one who said that the FLOODS were caused by the rain coming from the wrong direction !!! Also in today's paper 's are people who are still suffering terribly form the floods with more rain due to fall today , Alas one man told that his insurance had expired and his £ 125.thousand house is now worthless ,there is also 250homes in CATCLIFFE ,WEST YORKS have lost everything they blame not being given enough warning nor help now !!One lady returned from her caravan to find their home completely destroyed to be told she can calim a meagre £500.00 grant to get things back to normal! how pathetic. These house were flooded back in 2007 yet nothing had been done to stop this in the future .I TRULY CANNOT IMAGINE COMING BACK TO MY HOME AND FIND IT UNDER 6-10 FEET OF WATER,
I write this to highlight just how and what these so-called MPs are doing whilst ordinary folk are struggling thro such awful tragic problems yet this GOV can invest /throw money at luxury building's in the commons for one build £7 MILLION on the othe r hand give agrant of just £500 quid to some body who have just lost EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!IT MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL AND MAKES ME SO VERY ANGRY . #
P.S. TO ADD THESE RESIDENTS HAVE ASKED THE P.M TO JUST COME AND SEE THEIR PREDICAMENT ,AFTER ALL HE COULD JUST FLY UP TO YORKSHIE IN HIS HELICOPTER COULDNT HE AFTER ALL HE LIVES IN YORKSHIRE ???????
G.B.

The government have granted £20 million to spend on the refurbishment of Haigh Hall. Like Speaker's House, Haigh Hall is a government asset and the government spends money on their assets.
Not that I agree with it, of course, I'm just pointing it out, laaaaike!

Golden Bear

I think that yoo and the Daily Telegraph have got your knickers in a twist

Speaker's House is part of the Palace of Westminster or if you prefer the Houses of Parliament, and it is being included in the very expensive renovation of the mother of all parliaments, all of the Palace of Westminster, including the House of Commons and the House of Lords is due to be renovated.

It is going to take many years to complete, and when it is the turn of the House of Commons to be done, a temporary parliament will have to be found somewhere else, in either London or another place in the country, York has been mentioned and so has Wigan, so parliament might be moving to Wigan

The bit of the job which has been done already is the renovation of the Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben, and how long did that take, and it cost £80 million, so £7 million for Speaker's House is chicken feed.

The total cost for the renovation of the Houses of Parliament is projected to be well over a Billion Pounds