Tea and Coffee FOI is Farcical in Light of Other ABC Spends

Labour Campaigner Brendan Chitton is aghast at money spent by Ashford Borough Council on Tea and Coffee in the last three years.

I suggest he applied his Freedom of Information Act Legislation more vigourouslly to his own party and makes a note of Liam Byrne's letter left in the Treasury at the end of the Labour Government.

However, it is prudent to point out that Ashford Borough Council has circa 500 employees, working circa 350 days per year. Therefore the response provided identifies Ashford Borough Councill only spent 2p per employee per day in the three year period.

Perhaps Mr Chitton has only covered Local Government in his Politics studies so far, and would greatly benefit from full investigation into the remits of excessive spending in local government before launching such a meagre campaign again.

May I suggest he begins with the Audit Commission, Commercial Sensitivity and Local Enterprise Partnerships?