David Lammy has spent more than £1 million on private jets in just three months despite Labour’s vow to crack down on expensive ministerial flights and its Net Zero fanaticism. The Telegraph has more.
The Foreign Secretary’s air travel bill rose to £1.2 million between October and December 2024, with the vast majority going on private flights.
It equates to more than £14,000 per day, with the lion’s share spent on trips on a ministerial jet, according to the Guido Fawkes political blog.
There is no suggestion Mr Lammy’s use of private jets is out of kilter with his predecessors.
However, it risks a hypocrisy row for Labour Ministers, who previously lashed out at the Conservatives over their own use of private flights.
In October 2023, Rachel Reeves, now the Chancellor, promised a “crackdown on Tory ministers’ private jet habit” if Labour came to power.
She said: “We will enforce the ministerial code on the use of private planes and save millions of pounds for taxpayers in the process.”
Angela Rayner, now the Deputy Prime Minister, also criticised Liz Truss for using a private jet when she was Foreign Secretary, claiming it showed “exactly quite how little respect this Conservative Government has for taxpayers’ money”.
Labour also described Rishi Sunak, the former Prime Minister, as “out of touch” after he used private planes and helicopters to travel around the UK during the General Election campaign.
Guido Fawkes reported that Mr Lammy’s spending on air travel rose to £1.2 million between October and December last year, up roughly a third on the previous three-month period.
Private flights accounted for the majority of the bill, at around £1.1 million, the website said.
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Hypocrisy 101
These things only matter when you are (nominally) in opposition.
You can’t be a leftie and not be a hypocrite – it is a baked in part of their creed. When Rachel from Accounts said the welfare bill needs cutting to pay for her economic incompetence just imagine the howls and screams from the opposite benches if the Tories had suggested this.
The positive side of this is that normal passengers are spared travelling on the same plane as Clammy the Dunce.
“In October 2023, Rachel Reeves, now the Chancellor, promised a “crackdown on Tory ministers’ private jet habit” if Labour came to power.”
Um. Rache. Labour get into power, means there are NO “Tory” minsters.
God help us.
Anyone know anyone who admits to voting Labour? Eight months on and I am yet to meet anyone who admits to that.
I know one guy who is very very proud to say he voted Labour. To say he has drunk the Koolaid is an understatement.
Now we are talking C17 Globemasters here. David Lammy is a large man.
The picture showing him delicately dunking his slimfast ultrabar into his fresh tea/coffee with an ever so slightly raised pinky was taken just after he’d polished off his supersized lobster thermidor avec petit foie gras.. and double helping of pomme frites!
Has he got bigger since July?
Lammy the Lummox, representing the UK on the world stage, who called for the UK Taxpayers to pay “Reparations for Slavery”, seems to be taking his own reparations early.
£2.1 million since taking office was a number I heard a couple of days ago.
What amazes me is that he always has his comments switched on because he invariably gets rightly roasted. Maximum trolling or what?
”Securing our borders.
Putting more cash in your pocket.
Making our streets safer.
Giving better opportunities to our children.
Cheaper energy in your home.
An NHS that is fit for the future.
Labour is bringing change to Britain. Vote Labour on Thursday, 1 May.”
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1907802579033104889
One of the few non-sweary comments;
”It’s clear that you have done the exact opposite of what you profess, and everyone can see it. You gaslighting parasite!
I now firmly believe that your actions are deliberately undermining this country, it’s not naivety, it’s intentional.
You and the likes of Sadiq Khan are deliberately provoking civil unrest—it’s unmistakably apparent.
You’re filth! Absolute filth!” TheCynicalBrit
Looks like a pig, walks like a pig, spends other people’s money like a pig.
I like pigs!
Especially fried…
Plenty servings in that one!
Indeed, spitting image of Napoleon
That’s pappa bear fattening himself up. That stomach is already clearly lavishly fed. Big Daddy knows what’s best for you namely leaving you so skint that you have nary a pot to piss in nor a titty to suck on whilst spending all of your taxes on wars that have already been lost. That’s the machine baby call it it military industrial complex if you like. The end of empire doesn’t just witness canniblisation but it is an ever decreasing area of the predators feasting ever more deeply on diminishing prey. The prey animals hope that they can somehow stay around a while longer or be spared. In the end the cruel and barabric techniques that were inflicted in far fling reaches of the empire come home, as Thucydidies said. One asks if there is a cure for systemic madness. Martin Heidegger in his last interview on radio in 1976 said that only a god could save us now.
Dunno about a private jet, more like an Antonov 224 to get that barrel of lard airborne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
It won’t be long before they have to lash him down in the cargo deck to stop his weight rolling around on take off!
It was written in to the Anglo-American model from the start, you might call it the central banking warfare model. When it goes down it goes down utterly and woe betide the innocent plebs caught up in it. From the point of view of systems analysis there is no other conclusion. Grim acceptance of reality. They never cared about you at the inception and they hope for your demise before the conclusion.
Already read this. Keep up[.
The pigs in ‘Animal Farm’ moved from the sty to the farm house under the guise of equality and fairness.
Lear-jet Lammy is confirming that he and his cronies are turning fiction in to fact using my money
He is a reprehensible disgrace.
This gov’t wants all of you to step out of your cars and walk, train, bus. They also don’t want you on a plane. And yet…..
All animals are equal folks
~#FatGutsRus. Well, he’s getting fat off our dime.