Plane

[maggiebee]

Sorry I don't have a link for this but sure some bright spark on here will be able to find one.

No 10 have confirmed RAF voyager PM and Royal Family use is being repainted in the colours of the union flag.
Will cost £900,000

Boris Johnson won’t find an extra £20 a week to support the most vulnerable in society and help parents feed their children in these difficult times.

But he can find almost a million pounds to paint a plane.

Westminster is broken. Surely we can do better.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-17/red-white-and-blue-national-branding-makeover-on-military-plane-used-by-boris-johnson-will-cost-nearly-1m/

[Bobbisox1]

Not often we agree re the Royals Maggie, I’m a Royalist, you’re not ....
In this case though I completely agree with you, what a waste of tax payers money

[Mamyalynne]

I thought the meal vouchers were now going ahead?

[maggiebee]

Thanks for the link Mamya.

[Tilly2]

British Airways must have some spare red, white and blue paint.

[Prudie]

It's due for a 'pre-planned' overhaul anyway. All planes tend to get repainted every 5 or 6 years. What difference does it make if it's painted grey or red, white and blue??

[ToraToraTora]

seems a bit steep for a paint job but it does look a bit dull so I can see why they'd want to brighten it up.

[Gromit]

The school voucher scheme contract was awarded to a French company and will cost £234MILLION.

Slightly more than £900K that BadHair Farce 1 is costing.

[New Judge]

//Boris Johnson won’t find an extra £20 a week to support the most vulnerable in society and help parents feed their children in these difficult times.//

Why are the "vulnerable" any more badly off than anybody else. If they don't work (as many of them don't, which is among the things that makes them "vulnerable") they've lost no income because of Covid. They already get £20 pw for their first child and £13 a week for subsequent children. Why should the taxpayer (note, the taxpayer, not the Prime Minister) pay any more to help them feed their children?

As mentioned, the aircraft was due a repaint anyway. It will be used to transport the Royal Family and politicians around the world to drum up trade. The revenue from that trade will help pay the Child Benefit and other benefits that the "vulnerable" (I do love how that term is becoming increasingly popular) already receive.

[Theland]

It is true there are hungry children.
Are you ashamed?

[Theland]

NJ - you sicken me.
From the comfort of your comfortable life.
Shame!

[Bazile]

£900,000?

Seriously how on earth can it cost this amount of money to repaint a plane ?

I think somebody saw somebody coming , here

[DTCwordfan]

I thought that they were going to paint it with large letters scrawled across it 'Andy Hughes is on AB'....

[gulliver1]

Surprised Boris didn't just paint it blue.

[jourdain2]

I'm fairly neutral on this one, but vaguely approving. The plane had to be repainted anyway, so a bit of differently-coloured paint won't be much more, I suppose and it will be a UK statement which may help in diplomacy and trade. Out of a different budget than that allocated to social aid.

[Deskdiary]

Maggiebee’s argument is so specious it is laughable.

You could apply that ridiculous harrumphing argument to any Government spending.

Theland may not like NJ’s post, but it doesn’t make it any less true; I wonder how benefit recipients managed to feed their kids during the 2019 summer holiday.

[retrocop]

I am sure the paint has far more important qualities than withstanding friction and looking .It don't come cheap. POTUS has a certain paint covering over AF1 and all the Presidential Helicopters. Someone,once,for a jape got close to a presidential chopper in the back garden of certain premises in London and put an amusing adhesive sticker for George Bush Snr to chuckle at on entering. Heads in the Presidential secret sevice rolled and a back up chopper was hastily flown in. The helicopter needed a complete paint job at the cost of thousands of dollars.

[sherrardk]

Deskdiary -
‘The charity UNICEF estimates that 2.5m British children, or 19%, now live in food insecure households. This means that there are times when their family doesn't have enough money to acquire enough food, or they cannot buy the full variety of foods needed for a healthy diet.’

[Theland]

Deskdkary, hungry kids have always been with us.
I know.
I was one.
So was my Dad.

[Theland]

How did they manage?
That didn't.
Time kids went hungry.