Rishi Sunak’s selfishness: he keeps £8m/year helicopter. What could that cash have bought?
Helicopter: Rishi Sunak probably thinks this £8m/year waste of money makes him look big.
The Prime Miniature shows his own lack of stature once again:
£40m to make sure Rishi Sunak has a helicopter whenever he wants.
That's £110,000 a DAY.
And he complains about migrants getting £40 a WEEK.
If you can't see the problem now, you never will. pic.twitter.com/mCp9cPuBuJ
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) December 18, 2023
It’s true:
Rishi Sunak intervened to stop a contract worth up to £40million allowing him to use “VIP” choppers being scrapped, it has emerged.
The Prime Minister – who was blasted at the weekend after diverting an RAF plane to whisk him to a far-right political festival in Italy – rejected plans to abandon the deal. The Ministry of Defence had been set to stop renting two private helicopters used by the PM, but in September Mr Sunak blocked the move.
The five-year contract is estimated to be worth between £30million and £40million, according to Government procurement documents – an average of £8million a year. During his time in Downing Street so far, Mr Sunak has used private jets and helicopters to zip around the UK more than any other Prime Minister. In his first seven months in office he used RAF aircraft for domestic flights every eight days on average.
… although ‘Blade of the Sun’ is mistaken about the cost. It’s actually around £22,000 per day.
The point about him begrudging migrants £40 a week while spending 3,835 TIMES AS MUCH on his own vanity transport is valid, though.
And if you don’t like migrants, think what else this cash could fund, rather than plumping up Rishi Sunak’s ego: the NHS, sickness/disability benefits, investment in the economy – the possibilities are endless.
Remember this waste when Sunak ask you to re-elect him so he can waste even more of your money on himself.
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£8million a year of our public money being diverted to ensure carpet salesman Rishi Sunak has not one but two private hired helicopters!! What a waste of money and such extravagance from a carpet salesman who claims he always ensures ‘value for money” when spending our public money! Even worse greedy Sunak believes he is entitled to two helicopters so does he think he needs to spread his spindly body between two helicopters??
Fascist tories constantly lambast disabled women and men because they are all supposedly ‘scroungers’ who refuse to work and meanwhile carpet salesman Sunak wastes £8million public money on hiring a helicopter. Why doesn’t he use public transport like us plebs???
£8million a year should have been used to mitigate the poverty fascist tories imposed on women, children and men not wasted on selfish male egos!!