The story today of a pregnant woman being downgraded so Gordon Brown and his six aides could travel
business class from Abu Dhabi to London may ring a bell with CoffeeHousers. We revealed last August that Brown has a taste for freebies, and that he was offering
himself for $100,000 at speaking and award-giving engagements. For an extra $20,000 he would throw in his wife, Sarah.
The Mail on Sunday reports that one of the pregnant woman’s co-passengers was “livid, asking why it was necessary for all of [Brown’s team] to be travelling business — and if it was being paid for by the taxpayer.” He raises an interesting point. Tony Blair notoriously claimed a “pension” of £64k, and an £84k contribution for the costs of running his office. It is unclear if the same deal has been offered to Brown, and whether the taxpayer is in some way forking out for his forays to the Arab world and the Kennedy School of Misgovernment.
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