Northern Ireland Council’s Trip To Kansas City
While British parliamentary politics continues to unravel amid the daily drip-feed scandals of MPs expense claims, the costs of Local Councils sending members around the world on various trips - all of course funded by taxpayers - have been released and and a Northern Irish council’s trip to Kansas City has been highlighted.
To be honest the cost of the trip to the 52nd Annual International Sister Cities Conference at the Westin Crown Center Hotel last July, seems not all that remarkable, especially compared to what some other councils spent on trips, and I suspect is presented as a news story to try and capitalize on current national indignation of British taxpayers.
The Independent in Britain has the details on Northern Ireland’s Larne council:
Larne Borough Council, in Co Antrim, spent nearly £7,980 sending three councillors and two staff to a “sister cities” conference in Kansas. The council also spent £3,990 sending a delegation to Florida, and £2,655 on a pilgrimage to Somme. Larne was the port from which thousands of Irish emigrants set sail for the US, and is twinned with two towns in South Carolina.
Read about other councils in the Independent
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