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Danthus

Danthus

Danthus

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William Hague has just spent £10,000 having a snake stuffed, all funded by the taxpayer.

In a response to an FOI request the FOI said

“‘Albert’ the anaconda was allegedly presented by a Bishop, in what is now Guyana, to the Colonial Secretary in the 19th century – exact names and dates are unknown. However, he appears in a photo from circa 1892, which means he has been in the FCO for at least 120 years. As a gift to the FCO, Albert is therefore regarded as an FCO asset. As such, the FCO is obliged to maintain its assets, and the work on ‘Albert’ was essential maintenance. It is believed that ‘Albert’ was first re-stuffed in the 1960s or 1970s, but there are no records of how much it cost on that occasion. Certainly no significant maintenance has been carried out on him in the last 40-50 years. ‘Albert’ was never housed in a glass case, as is commonly believed. In moving him from his suspended position in the Ansell Library (a separate Library area to the old Home Office Library referenced above) to facilitate planned refurbishment to the area it was observed he was in poor condition. A decision was taken to use this opportunity to carry out a refurbishment to ‘Albert’ including a safety check on the suspension fittings. The cost of the conservation and restoration work on ‘Albert’ was £10,000. The work was undertaken by the Conservation Team at the Natural History Museum, over a 5-week period, from 21 May to 26 June 2012. As nothing was known about previous work done on ‘Albert’, the conversation team at the NHM needed to use x-ray CT scanning, which is a costly procedure that required extensive data processing and a specialist to do the analysis. Also, the level of detailed, delicate work in the restoration involved an intensive amount of care and attention from highly trained staff.”
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Money well spent then. :D
 
Albert needed doing and he was done. He's happy, I’m happy for him and I can’t see why everyone can’t be happy too.
 
I'd rather we spent the money on real anacondas. We could then feed MPs, immigrants, bankers, public sector workers and Muslims to them ... that should keep most on this forum happy I would think.
 
So that's where the benefit cuts money is being moved too, taxidermy for ministers. Well, that's perfectly alright then.

I wonder how much it'll cost to stuff Ian Duncan Smith?
 
Kazz said:
So that's where the benefit cuts money is being moved too, taxidermy for ministers. Well, that's perfectly alright then.

I wonder how much it'll cost to stuff Ian Duncan Smith?
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I wonder how much it'll cost to stuff Eric Pickles? :D
 
Government following the law and paying for the upkeep of cultural heritage. Better than many other things it could be wasted on.
 
Kazz said:
This has to be done! :eek:

Clegg could even turn around the fate of his party coming out with an idea like this.


Well, maybe that's going a bit far...
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I think at this point, anything Clegg says or does is just going to make him and his party even less popular, simply by virtue of reminding the public that they exist.

You know, except the "I'm sorry techno remix".

 
It doesn't really matter what they spend money on as long as it stays in the UK. It will work its way back to the governments coffers through taxation of one form or the other. In the meantime it keeps people employed so it's all good.
 
Xordium said:
I'd rather we spent the money on real anacondas. We could then feed MPs, immigrants, bankers, public sector workers and Muslims to them ... that should keep most on this forum happy I would think.
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