Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been branded ‘Long Haul Hoyle’ after it was revealed he has spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on first class flights, chauffeurs and five-star resorts. The Mail has the story.
A list of Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s expenses reveals he blew more than £180,000 of taxpayers’ cash on flights in two years.
It shows he never travels in economy, opting for first or business class seats – even for short-haul trips to Dublin and Italy.
He also chartered a private plane during a jaunt to the paradise Caribbean island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory.
The MP for Chorley has shelled out thousands of pounds to stay at luxurious resorts and hotels around the globe, including the St Regis in Doha, Westin Grand in the Cayman Islands and Ritz-Carlton in Los Angeles. The hotels and resorts Sir Lindsay stayed in were up to £900 a night.
The list, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, shows that during the LA trip in February 2023 he lavished more than £3,000 on chauffeur-driven cars.
Despite this, he also racked up a bill of £270 with local taxi app Lyft.
He also splashed more than £4,500 on chauffeur-driven vehicles during a trip to Canberra, Australia a month earlier.
One ‘subsistence’ bill at the St Regis in Doha totalled more than £800.
He also racked up a £400 meal and drinks bill at the five-star Hotel Due Torri in Verona, Italy. His room at the Hotel Due Torri for the G7 Speakers’ Conference in September last year was £630 a night.
In December, the Mail revealed Sir Lindsay has billed taxpayers more than £250,000 for trips in just two years.
He has splashed the sum on 19 foreign jaunts since October 2022, making him the most well-travelled Commons Speaker in history.
John Bercow, his predecessor, took 10 years to rack up the same bill for ‘non-regular’ foreign travel.
It led to him being branded ‘long-haul Hoyle’ and sparked accusations that he had been “swanning around like he’s the Foreign Secretary”.
But the list, obtained via Freedom of Information requests, breaks down the extravagant sums.
His five-day trip to the Cayman Islands last summer was among the more eye-catching, totalling £22,785.
This included £15,806 on business class flights with British Airways for him and two staff.
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Blimey, those are steep prices even for a freeloading MP.
Labour – the party that represents “working people”.
Like nearly all MPs, the lure of luxury quickly results in them ditching any principles they may have had. “If you can’t beat them, join them” is the old motto. Beside that snout needs some work to do.
Why does the Speaker or indeed any backbencher have to leave the UK on business? Their role is linited to parliament and their constituents. Drain the Swamp!
Didn’t Farage gush, bow and scrape over this clown?
Wasn’t this criminal part of the Rona coup and the overthrow of Parliament (Pharma-ment)?
This is so crazy. Why would you slog your guts out for this? Who is this prat with his penchant for lavish and exotic travel? I don’t knoe anything about him but he looks vacuous. Someone who I wouldn’t want to have standing in the urinal next to me.
It wouldn’t be a problem if not funded by the taxpayer.
Jaunts should not be funded by the tax payer. Simon asked a very good question about travel generally.
It seems to me that Business Class is high enough almost all the time and they can be bought for surprisingly modest prices if booked ahead anbd some flexibility is available on flight day and time.
What happens to the air miles?
If Hoyle or a Cabinet Minister are going to an opfficial function I have no problem with limos. But for routine journeys (eg airport to hotel) a cab should be OK.
Tax payers should be prepared to fund a certain level of decorum but these Ministers etc seem to think they are entitled to luxury all the time.
Notwithstanding this depressing example of free-loading at the taxpayers expense Lindsay Hoyle has only one other accolade worth mentioning – he is an abject bloody coward who besmirched his office last year (?) when he allowed the cowardly Kneel to bully him on a procedural matter. He’s a gutless bit of wind and piss.
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We live in apocalyptic times and apocalypse means the lifting of the veil. I strongly doubt that he will be thriving in five years time. I wonder where he stood on the opening of the first seal, the attack of pharmakeia on the divine anthropos. As Sun Tzu said, sit by the river long enough and you will see the heads of your enemies come floating by.
Order, order! To the left, the Speaker, who’s sluiced away a quarter of million in two years on jollies, and to the right, the mugs who’ve paid for it – Us.
He tried to fill a hole in his heart with decadent travels. It doesn’t work. In addiction therapy they call it the geographical cure. The hope that you might be able to kick an addiction if you move to somewhere entirely different. It doesn’t work. As they say in addiction circles, an asshole gets on the plane in New Jersey and an asshole gets off the plane in LA. You always carry the curse with you it is never the place.
The more you start doing things that cost money the more you pull yourself away from what is important. Throw it aside. Get your clothes from the local jumble sale. This tyranny of numbers crap does not lead to happiness it just leads to you living in a money drugged state until you pass away. That is not a good way to go. Money is as dirty as coke or any other dopamine-inducing drug. Let it go. Give it away if you have more than you need. According to JC what we need is our daily bread. Every day is sufficient to itself.
You have him dressed up in some robe like he holds some ancient high office. I have seen his type before this is a man who struggles to pull his trousers up. I feel naive asking questions like who is this freak and why do you want him? Come on man what is this bloody nonsense.
I recall they got rid of a Speaker back in 2009 when the expenses scandal first broke. He was so angry with whoever exposed the scandal….How very dare they!
He has certainly filled Bercow,s shoes & we thought he was bad !
Bring on Doge UK.
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The bloke is, in reality, nothing more than the chairman of a raucous discussion forum.
He doesn’t need to travel the world to pontificate. Certainly not at the expense of the ‘highest ever rate’ taxpayers.
His expenses are morally and ethnically obscene.
Put him in prison
The Speaker of the House of Commons is a very important post and I can remember several who performed excellently, not least in standing up to the Executive and protecting the rights of Members.
Hoyle and Bercow being particularly execrable exceptions.
But whilst I can imagine that he might possibly have a reason to travel officially to the Isle of Wight, I can imagine absolutely no reason why he might need to go so far as Jersey, where his role in the HoC is irrelevant; let alone the Cayman Islands.
This should be written into the job description for HoC Speakers.
And a good spell in the Tower might concentrate Hoyle’s mind.
Hear, hear.
The current Parliament is not fit for purpose especially with tossers like this taking the piss!
What a f****** grifter. Has he no shame.
It is about time the Speaker and Deputy Speaker were independent appointments and not MPs. I met somebody who had the misfortune of being ‘represented’ in Parliament by the tosser Bercow. How can it be right that these people are not represented. Reform should ignore the protocol and stand against Hoyle in 2029. In a better system the Prime Minister would be an elected office and the Ministers would all be appointed by the party with the most seats leaving ALL MPs with their proper job of holding the executive to account on behalf of the electorate. The appointed Ministers would be hired for their expertise such as Donald has done by appointing an expert in running a generation grid to er…run the generation grid.
Another Champagne Socialist. Starmer seems much more restrained – he just like the odd exotic sausage.
It is not clear tpo me why these particular destinations should be visited. He is teh Speaker, not an FC[D]O Minister. Why Gib three times. Why Jordan? Jordan is not a democracy in any meaningful sense and it is not in the Commonwealth. Why there?