It comes as Chancellor Rachel Reeves asks departments to highlight savings they can make in the next few years.
  • manualoverride@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    14 days ago

    Sources suggest the extra expense is justified to enhance the image of the government

    I’m assuming the image they were going for was fucking morons, if so well done, complete success.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      14 days ago

      This feels more like tone-deaf snobbery, like in an Armando Iannucci project, rather than “traditional” corruption.

      “If his majesty’s government cannot be counted upon to support the great British tradition of bespoke luxury stationery, then who can?!”