Councils spend £100m on taxpayer-funded credit cards

Originally posted by 5corpio
Counils have spent tens of millions of pounds on taxpayer-funded credit cards with local authority executives and councillors treating themselves to first-class travel to foreign destinations and stays in five-star hotels, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Despite being ordered to cut spending by almost 30 per cent, town hall chiefs have continued to lavish hundreds of thousands of pounds on dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants, leisure trips and expensive gifts including iPads and video games while slashing jobs and scrapping front-line services.

An investigation by The Daily Telegraph has uncovered details of apparently questionable spending decisions by councillors and local government officials, with more than £2 million spent on travel over the last three years, including flights to Thailand, Kenya and..........Read more HERE from the Guardian today
Well we all know that Councils, Departmental, Government Officals, Local Government, even the good old 'Quango' was invented invested/set up by them are Corrupt Greedy B*stards! Part of their job,