The woman in the photograph is Margaret Beckett but I don't have to tell any of you that. What you perhaps don't know is that she costs the taxpayers around £250,000 a year in round-the- clock police protection plus another £50,000 a year for the use of chauffeur driven cars despite being removed as foreign secretary two years ago.
The housing minister has insisted on retaining a full team of security officers and use of two government cars since 2007 when she was moved from the top diplomatic post by Gordon Brown. Beckett's three police protection officers work in shifts to ensure her safety in London and at her Derby home.
Surely the perks disappear when the job goes but not for the present Westminster government it seems.
How does she manage when she nips away to her caravan for a few days? I'm sure her caravanning neighbours can't be too pleased at having their every move surveyed.
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Every day there's a new scandal about these people doing us.
Becket was a undistinguished Foreign Secretary to put it mildly. Brown was right (yes, I said that) to get rid of her (although in replacing her with Milliband he was back on his usual form).
As far as I know the special treatment should stop when the job stops, unless there is some special threat. I can't see any reason why there would be a specail threat to Mrs Beckett.
Will it continue when Labour are out of office; will it continue when she loses her seat and goes to the Lords, as she's bound to.
Why do these people think they are worth this money when the rest of us struggle?
Subrosa,
Snout in trough and about to end.
Typical Labourite - filled with her own self importance and not that of the collective countries they're allegedly governing - some reserved matters of course!
CD
There's nothing like someone caught up in their own delusion of self importance!
I don't give a monkeys Rab but when they're doing it at our expense ...
Aye CD but they shouldn't be permitted to do this by law. There should be laws against this type of fraud.
She could cancel this protection and donate the saving to pay for one Millipede private jet flight.
Just after I posted it OR I read an article which said we spend the same protecting Prince Andrew's daughters. One is on a backpacking holiday with her minders - can you believe it?
Munguin posted on his blog about that today. Real scandal we're paying for protection for someone's gap year.
Aye I noticed Tris. He has a good photo of Beatrice becoming a nicotine addict too.
She obviously believes she is in danger. I wish it were true.
We're all in danger Vronsky aren't we. That's what Jacqui Smith continues to tell us.
My brother's just back from a walking holiday round the temples of Cambodia. He didn't have any protection. Actually he said the people were some of the friendliest he'd met in the world, and there's not too many places he hasn't been.
Tris maybe you could email Ms Beckett with that information. She may decide to have her next caravan holiday there.
What an abuse of public money. We have so many very small, worthy charities screaming for a little cash and this is how our representatives treat them.
My God Subrosa, what a frightful picture. One look at her and most people would run a mile. In which case she does not need protecting.
I have to admit Munguin, I was told earlier that I at least looked better than Ms Beckett. That's a real compliment here you know :)
I dunno what La Beckett is feart of, but it surely can't be unwelcome sexual attention.
A girl at work told me she'd fallen out with her husband. I asked what had happened. She explained that they had a couple of dogs, and he had been keen at first, but now had become lazy about taking them for walks - she had to do it alone most of the time. The previous night she had had to take the dogs out by herself yet again. 'It's dark out there' - she complained - 'I could be attacked'. Her husband's reply: 'It's no that dark, hen.'
Ms Beckett, take heart. It will never, ever be dark enough for you to be at risk.
Oh Vronsky best laugh I've had for a couple of days (been dealing with a leaking overflow here and it's been mayhem).
Her man sounds he should join the same club as mine.
Beckett's an absolute howling joke anyway. How anyone could ever take her seriously is beyond me. Yet another clear cut case of Labour troughing. I hope this story gets a bit more exposure. I can't stand the bint!
She certainly is a scary looking gangster!
Oh JTP, she was our Foreign Secretary don't forget. Don't they have to be scary?
Yoohoo TP good day? It's up to bloggers to add it to the lists I think. The media will drop it asap. So the responsibility lies with yoohoo (grin)
another Nulabour piggy with her snout in the trough..even when is does sweet FA to warrant it.
Another one for your trough list OB!
And we should ask...Why does she have a stiff upper lip...? a British trait perhaps?
I think it would be easier for journalists to list those in the government who don't misuse the public's money. It can't be a very long list.
WV is vestords - to a dyslexic like me it sounds about rite.
Stiff upper lips means nerves to steel to me Baron.
Brownlie, I suggested that to someone last night. Be much easier to get the 646 list and take off the non-fraudulent MPs.
An excellent short summary of the personalities in New Labour's current power struggle (death throes?) is over at Daily Mash.
Thanks for the link Vronsky. Do hope others read it. I loved the Jim Murphy one.
tp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176735/Revealed-How-Gordon-Brown-threw-tantrum-TV-interview--soothed-Lord-Mandelson.html
The end can not be far away now.
Greetings from Geneva
Morning Billy. Oh you lucky person you. Switzerland is perhaps my favourite country but how I wish it had a beach like the Ferry :)
This is a photograph of Princess Anne on a very very bad day
A PHOTO WILL FOLLOW BY THE WEEK-END
That's great Billy. Hope it's not one of the type which needs to be in brown paper wrapping ;)
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