This is what Carrie Symonds has spent £10k of taxpayers money on

Who cares if Carrie Symonds has the nous or chutzpah to crowdfund a refurb? Better that I say than us taxpayers.

I read that £30k was the allowance and Symonds isn’t happy with that paltry amount so wants to set up a charity so people can donate to help keep the building lovely and to her taste I guess Cherie and Tony spent some of their own dosh on soft furnishings.

Tony Blair & his missus spent 3x that back in the day!
Not fake news either.
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Actually, I don't know whether gov.uk has a central IT policy, but I would imagine that it should, and any purchases by anyone using equipment for their work must line up with this.

If Apple is an approved supplier, then fair enough.

There’s a difference between office tech and home decor. I’m sure if Jeremy Corbyn’s missus spent £30k of anyone’s money on sofas there would be an outcry.

By all means if you need equipment then submit expenses but there is no requirement to buy top of the range gadgets. Plenty of wireless headphones available at a fraction of the price of Apple Airpods.

By letting the MPs decide what they want to expense for, the public are being taken for mugs....AGAIN!

The Government will do nothing to stop this and the Labour party and others are just two faced...quick to blame the opposition when it's to do with lowering benefits or universal credit, but also quick themselves to milk the expenses system!

There’s claiming within the rules, then there’s claiming what’s reasonable.

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Gordon Brown spent no taxpayers money on home makeovers at no 10/11. Not fake news.

And in other news (as a balance) ...

A senior Labour MP said of Mr Hamilton and Ms Angela Rayner: “We all claim, but you’ve got to judge what you do it for. People have got to be cleaner than clean on this stuff.”

Geraint Davies, the Labour MP for Swansea East, also spent £3,975 on Apple equipment between April and July, while Barry Gardiner, the former shadow international trade secretary, claimed £1,748 for an iPad, £131 for an Apple pencil and £349 for a keyboard for the device.

A number of ministers are among those to have made claims, although their expenses are lower than the highest spenders.

Responding last night, John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "No doubt all of this spending will be shown to be 'within the rules'. But these MPs should be asking themselves if expensive Apple products are remotely necessary when there are much cheaper alternatives.

“With the economy and public finances in such dire straits, limiting their expenses claims would be a welcome way for MPs to show that we’re all in it together.”

What a great idea can we have prizes for the person who spots it first? Or points for contributing?

Great,
let’s all start threads with amusing fake news then.

I pinched it from another source thought it amusing. No idea if it’s genuine . But the latest goss is Symonds is planning to set up a charity to fund her home makeovers as the taxpayers £30k dosh isn’t lavish enough for her tastes. Apparently she is taking her cue from none other than Melania Trump’s makeover of the White House.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/02/does-charity-begin-at-boris-johnsons-chintzed-up-home?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

blossoming I already posted that it wasn’t correct, but like you it was ignored.

But hey , why let the facts spoil a ‘good’ story?

I think there’s been a blip in the space-time continuum and her decorator has got stuck in the 1980s. It’s all a bit frilly Laura Ashley, isn’t it? The art looks interesting, though.

trisher ! That’s uncharacteristically saucy of you.??

I'm disappointed I liked to think of Boris playing hunt the sofa.

Anything to say vegansrock hmm?

Fake news,

The photograph in the original post originates from a design blog posted in October 2017.

It is not in Downing Street and Carrie Symonds has not spent any taxpayers’ money on it.

Put the pitchforks away.

Boris (returning home after a heavy night's drinking-post Covid of course) "Carrie, Carrie. Somebody's pinched the bloody sofa".
Loud crash and bang.
"Whoops found it! Never did like that bloody lamp. Suppose I'm on here mmm. Sure you don't fancy a quickie? Brumph."

This is no doubt fake news once again.Surely that’s part of the drawing room of the Nabob of Rangipoor ( or similar) from 1923 or thereabouts.
If not, it’s just an example of a designer’s work.Boris Johnson would have to have even more of a sense of humour than I thought to even contemplate such frilly horror.?

William Morris is back in fashion btw sofa workshop are selling sofas in snakeshead

it does look a bit like she might have a crystal ball somewhere up the other corner

The saying "there's no accounting for taste" is very true.
However, what source tells you/us that the taxpayer has paid £10,000 for this particular example of decor? Where did they get their figures and information from?

MaizieD

It's very 'grannyish'.

Is the 80's, wall to wall Laura Ashley/William Morris, back in fashion?

Ha ha MaizieD - I had a friend who loved the Edwardian Lady’s Country Diary floral look and had her bedroom walls papered, bedspread, pillows, lampshades and the frilly curtains to match.

All this on top of a Wilton floral carpet in similar colour and she was most put out when I warned her not to buy a matching nightdress in case her husband never found her again!?

The photo shown in the OP is of other work done by the designer that CS has chosen to do the redecorating. Not what has been chosen.

Well I quite like it. It's just a corner of a room. I wonder what the rest's like.
We always seem to hear about how the White House is decorated by the latest incumbent but not so much about No 10.