Prescott’s New Sign

December 21st, 2006 1

I’m sure many of you will have seen the story that Mr.Prescott has spent £645 of tax money on changing his office sign. And for the most part I agree it’s a complete waste of money. I did, however, find ITV’s report on the story a bit laughable, and at worst the kind of sensationalist repoting that I hate.

To demonstrate the high cost of Prescott’s sign the reporter was seen buying a “sign” in a near by prontaprint shop. They then went on to say “This cost us £9, that’s a difference of £636 that Mr. Prescott could have saved the tax payer.”

What they didn’t point out was that the “sign” that they’d had mad was simply a printed piece of A4 paper (£9 was a bit of a rip-off to be honest) where as the sign for the deputy Prime Minsters office obviously needed to be a little more robust than that.

Oh well, a bit random I guess, but it really wound me up. Maybe it’s all the Christmas shopping addling my brain.

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