Podium for £4,175!

[Essex Barn Workshop]

Apparently Liz Truss authorised a spend of £4,175 on this podium, which is no longer used.

Now podium building, that's something I could really get behind!

Article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/18/liz-truss-jenga-style-podium-cost-taxpayers-4175

 

[thetyreman]

ridiclous waste of money, they should pay for their own podium with what they earn.

 

[Ozi]

Apparently Liz Truss authorised a spend of £4,175 on this podium, which is no longer used.

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Now podium building, that's something I could really get behind!

Article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/18/liz-truss-jenga-style-podium-cost-taxpayers-4175

I'm sorry but you have insufficient faces to be a prim-minister

 

[baldkev]

Dammit, i'd have built it for £4174!!

 

[ian33a]

Luckily, she wasn't in office quite long enough to have the Downing Street flat redecorated, again.

 

[Adam W.]

There's nothing wrong with that, as it gave someone a couple of weeks work.

 

[Fergie 307]

And the rate they wete changing at the time, podium builder to the prime minister would have been quite a lucrative job

 

[COWS]

I made David Camerons last public lectern when he opened the farnborough airshow in 2016. Its something as a company we had in our stock. He complained about it being too low and only had 20 mins to adapt it before the ceremony. I had no materials to hand so cut up the kitchen unit from my portacabin office on site and wrapped it in blue vinyl. True story. I also thought I'd made Theresa May's last one too but she went on another 6 weeks.

 

[StephenArfer]

Looks like another government screw-up to me.

 

[David Lloyd]

I did offer,