The world's worst bureaucrat loafers
We've had the Italian healthcare official who turned up for work for 15 days in 9 years. Then there's a bureaucrat paid hundreds of thousands for not turning up at all in 2012. Now we have an Indian who hadn't been to work since 1990. Long live big government!
- 12 January 2015
Great moments in government waste
Libertarians don't want better government, they want much less of it whether it's "good" government or not. But when government is bad, boy, is it bad
- 14 July 2014
Is underwear a legitimate function of the federal government?
Any government that has $400,000 to spend on a cigarette vest obviously has far too much money on its hands
- 15 May 2013
Government waste hits new levels as local council spends £4m on small maintenance contractor
A bad day at the office for Kingston Council
- 13 May 2013
Electoral Commission spends £55,000 on ice cream scoops and cats
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that Britain's Electoral Commission has spent a chunk of taxpayer cash on a bizarre online offering for citizens
- 16 April 2013
FBI spends $1.5m per year advising movies and TV shows?
The FBI can help you make a movie, from costumers to sets, weapons and even FBI facilities for filming!
- 12 April 2013
Further evidence of climate change department hypocrisy
The TaxPayers' Alliance's latest report show damning figures of the Department for Energy and Climate Change lavish travel lifestyle
- 8 November 2012
UK climate change department takes over 3000 flights at a cost of over £1.3m
The Department for Energy and Climate Change has taken a whopping 3114 flights over the past two years
- 26 October 2012
Loony Left: UK Government potentially wastes £112 million
Question: Would you rather become the UK's most popular citizen by treating half the nation to a round on you, or see civil servants spray £112 million up the wall?
- 17 October 2012
Why Charlie Elphicke's priorities are wrong
It ought not to be the job of the Conservative party to define ‘fairness’ as “tax everybody, everywhere”. Leave defending that sort of nonsense to Labour and the Liberal Democrats
- 20 March 2012
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