David Cameron spent £680,000 of taxpayers' cash on Downing Street

Source: The Guardian

David Cameron has spent more than £680,000 of public money renovating Downing Street in the year that his government inflicted the biggest ever spending cuts across the public sector.

Records of all government spending reveal nine bills for the refurbishment of Downing Street including £30,000 for work he and his wife Samantha carried out on the No 11 flat last summer. The centrepiece of their revamp was the kitchen, revealed this week in official photographs of the President Barack Obama's state visit.

Downing Street has confirmed that the full £30,000 grant for upkeep of the living accommodation, which is available to prime ministers annually, was used for the refit of 11 Downing Street, after the Guardian discovered the payment published in the government's official spending records.

A spokeswomen said the money was spent on rewiring, plumbing and decorating the flat but insisted the Camerons paid for the extras. "No public money was spent on furniture, fittings or accessories," she said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/27/david-cameron-taxpayers-home-improvements

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The Guardian included this Reuters photograph: "The Camerons' refurbished kitchen was seen when Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron posed for this picture last week."

Maybe they could have lead by example and spent their own money?

Ya right.

Oink-Oink.

That just makes no sense to me.

Disgusting frauds.