A parliament spokesperson said: "The parliament is procuring an expert guided-tour service. These charges have been set on a break-even, non-profit basis."Well that's OK then. Making a profit would never do, would it? We can't have politicians being corrupted by trade, can we?
A libertarian returns to Scotland
"Freedom and Whisky gang thegither"
- Robert Burns
Friday, 2 July 2004
Another Holyrood money row
This time it's over plans to charge a fee for conducted tours of our new parliament building. Yes we've paid (and how!) for the construction but it does seem reasonable to recoup the additional cost of providing the guides. Needless to say there's no danger of the taxpayer recovering any of the overspend on the building:
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