Huge wodges of your cash have failed to make Patel pretty. Why is she using Home Office expenses to pamper herself?
Either Priti Patel has failed to realise that her Home Office credit card is for government work only, or she doesn’t care and is happy to abuse public funds for the sake of pampering herself.
Byline Times published a list of very strange Home Office expenses claims on Wednesday – and some of them are real eyebrow-raisers:
SELECTED HOME OFFICE PROCUREMENT CARD SPENDING, 2020
23 December: £669, Rachael’s Kitchen Limited
This is the firm that owns the Rachael’s Cupcakes brandSeptember: £5,415.90, Primark
15 June: £849.50, SportsDirect
2 April: £864, Hair There and Everywhere
This appears to be a hairdressing salon6 April: £30,000, Global Beauty Products Limited
This firm runs the store ‘Beautiful Brows and Lashes’, but also appears to sell personal protective equipment (PPE)6 March: £2,022.64, Neptun Qtu Tirane
This appears to be an electronics store in Albania9 March: £1,040.69, Folkestone Garden Centre
12 March: £3,774.29, Pollyana Restaurant
13 March: £919.81, Entertainment EB
March: SP Beautiful Brows: £77,269.40
This company appears to be run by Global Beauty Products26 February: £3,952.76, Pollyana Restaurant
27 February: £900, The Magdalen Arms
This appears to be a pub in Oxford24 January: £2,000, Claudia Lamb Independent
It seems as though Claudia Lamb is a diet consultant
The story has been a gift to the Twitterati:
exclusive look at Priti Patel before she spent £77,000 of public money on eyebrow treatment pic.twitter.com/hrVKVut2eT
— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) March 26, 2021
Priti Patel getting her eyebrows done for £77k knowing she’s deporting the technician in the morning pic.twitter.com/ggKuQR2Lt1
— New Year, New Dee (@PrincessMissDee) March 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/RDH4L3/status/1375435303087923205
— Carole Hawkins (@hawkins_carole) March 26, 2021
Priti Patel has spent £669 on cupcakes and two grand on a dietician – using parliamentary expenses.
Where do you even begin to start?
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) March 26, 2021
There is a serious side to this, on which some of the commenters above have touched – which is that Patel and/or others in the Home Office have abused their expenses privileges grossly.
She does have previous ‘form’ in this area of behaviour, though. Some may conclude that she’s now a habitual offender.
While they have been spending public money like water, the Tory government has been claiming it doesn’t have the cash for (as an example) free school meals for poverty-stricken children, or to properly manage what happens to asylum-seekers.
And – sadly – it seems working-class Conservative voters are happy to starve, and to let their friends and colleagues starve, while the likes of Priti Patel stuff themselves full of cupcakes and then charge their dietician’s bill to the public purse.
It isn’t acceptable on any level at all.
Still, we all know what to say next time Boris Johnson says he can’t afford a pay rise for the NHS, don’t we? “What has Priti Patel bought now – Uganda?”
UPDATE: It seems the Home Office has got a bit touchy about this. A few hours ago (at the time of writing) it published the following:
📰 FACT CHECK:
It is wrong to claim the Home Office expenses that have been circulated today are the Home Secretary's.
They are department wide and for vital equipment like PPE.
It is completely false to say the Home Office has spent money on beauty products, it was PPE.
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) March 26, 2021
The spending in Primark was for asylum seekers who would have not had appropriate clothing when arriving in the UK.
We are committed to delivering the best value for money for the British taxpayer, making sure every pound is spent in the most effective way.
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) March 26, 2021
Sadly for the Home Office, that doesn’t explain all the expenses that were listed.
What about the cupcakes?
The hairdressing?
Folkestone Garden Centre?
Pollyanna Restaurant?
SP Beautiful Brows? I think we all want to know what that one’s all about. Did every single asylum seeker in Patel’s concentration camps need fixing?
Not forgetting the dietician, of course.
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That photo if her has been photoshopped. She is detestable, but there is no need to go tot eh same low standards as the gammons in editing photos etc.
Which photo?
i was having great fun at this story and felt rather deflated by the Home Office statement tonight. At 7.12pm on 26 March 2020, the Home Office released a statement on Twitter which read: “It is wrong to claim the Home Office expenses that have been circulated today are the Home Secretary’s. They are department wide and for vital equipment like PPE. It is completely false to say the Home Office has spent money on beauty products, it was PPE. We make no apology for buying PPE to keep our staff safe during the pandemic. The spending in Primark was for asylum seekers who would have not had appropriate clothing when arriving in the UK. We are committed to delivering the best value for money for the British taxpayer, making sure every pound is spent in the most effective way.” But i doubt they use the office credit card to buy PPE. Although the two thousand quid for a diet consultant could have been to help them starve asylum seekers to death.
Okay. What about the cupcakes?
The hairdressing?
Folkestone Garden Centre?
Pollyanna Restaurant?
SP Beautiful Brows? I think we all want to know what that one’s all about. Did every single asylum seeker in Patel’s concentration camps need fixing?
Not forgetting the dietician, of course.
I love the BS that their so-called fact-checking is doing here selectively listing stuff not commented on like PPE for staff. But ignoring the eyebrows things and the Garden centre something nice for the asylum seekers to grow and how about the cupcakes was that for them?
Was this instead as I suspect for parties at the home office for the cupcakes listed. What about the diet consultant list as for Peti Patel hmmm no comment on that one?
Oh, and BTW, Home Office, Fact-Checking is honest, unlike this BS department you set up that just twists a Tory lie to make it acceptable now where is the truth here? Your checking or was it just propaganda for the Tory scum check that fact!!!