Watchdog agency blows tax money at Hooters

The tax money spent at Hooters was for "business".


Political hacks at a British consumer protection agency blow £572,458 in tax money on meals at Hooters, exclusive restaurants and five star hotels


Political hacks and bureaucrats are the same the world over.  They love to spend your hard earned tax money.

The British Office of Fair Trading has run up a £38,000 food bill charged to the taxpayer, including £80 on a mean at raunchy American food chain Hooters.

In total, the Office of Fair Trading spent £572,458 from the public purse between 2009 and 2011.

The two-year bill included £90,000 on flights, £10,000 on stays at five-star hotels, and even £500 on jewelry in Liverpool and £440 for a training course reports the UK Daily Mail.

Bosses at the Government agency, which works to protect consumer rights, racked up the £80 taxpayer-funded bill at Hooters in Nottingham.

Officials at the agency also amassed bills over £1,000 charged to the taxpayers at high-end London restaurants as part of business lunches and meals hosted for delegates.

In the past two years the OFT spent £1,064.47 at Chez Gerrard in London, as well as a further £1,440 at Patterson's, another exclusive London restaurant.

OFT bosses also splashed out £100 on food at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, as well as £386.44 at Lutyens, near St Paul's in London, during a lunch for Japanese delegates hosted by the firm's boss John Fingleton.

Emma Boon, campaign director for the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'It's preposterous that staff at the quango in charge of ensuring we don't get ripped off have spent taxpayers' money in Hooters; it's an inappropriate venue in which to conduct business.

'The OFT needs to explain some of the more extravagant looking items on these bills, such as big lunches and five-star hotel stays, as some of this spending looks inappropriate.'
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(UK Daily Mail)


Officials from the Office of Fair Trading spent nearly £80 in Hooters, Nottingham, during a taxpayer-funded meal.