Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By poz_2000 Comments: 2675, member since Thu May 15, 2003
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:45 AM
Nicolas Sarkozy has been promising to cut back on his presidential spending, but he’s actually splashing out £10,000 a day on food and keeps 121 cars under the Elysee Palace, according to a new book.
Socialist MP Rene Dosiere, in L'argent de l'État (Money from the State), sets out what he sees as extraordinary excesses by the French President.
In the explosive book, he accuses Sarkozy of ‘ignoring the most elementary principles of the separation between private and public accounts’.
Sarkozy, whose palace budget exceeds that of the Queen, recently stated that there will be a ‘rupture’ with his past money-splurging ways and more transparency.
He has cancelled the annual £500,000 palace garden party, but this doesn’t go far enough, according to Dosiere.
Just last week he sent a medical team to the Ukraine on board a state-owned private jet to attend to one of his sons, Pierre, and fly him back to Paris to the tune of £22,000.
His fleet of cars is double the size of predecessor Jacques Chirac’s and cost, annually, £100,000 to insure and a whopping £275,000 to fuel.
Then there are his huge travel costs.
He uses an Airbus A330 – dubbed Air Sarko One - that drained the public purse of £215million to kit out, is accompanied by a delegation of 300 people on trips abroad and travels more often that previous presidents, claims Dosiere.
Recent excursions include an 80-mile trip to Saint-Quentin, from Paris, that cost £350,000, a £109,000 sortie to the Lascaux caves with Bruni and a two-and-a-half-hour trip to Ain that Dosiere worked out cost £700 a minute.
What’s more, he never seems to linger anywhere to meet locals and absorb their culture.
‘Mitterrand and Chirac knew how to take their time admiring a landscape, meeting people, interesting themselves in the history of the host country, Sarkozy behaves like a man in a hurry,’ complains Dosiere.
The French people also chip in for a thousand pounds worth of daily newspapers and Sarkozy’s ‘house’ wine, the red option being a £160 bottle of Crozes-Hermitage, which guests use to wash down foods such as lobster carpaccio and calves cheeks.
11 Replies to Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By WilyB Comments: 28021, member since Sat Apr 26, 2003
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:56 AM
Sarkozy, whose palace budget exceeds that of the Queen,
Of course you moron, he does work, not like Lizzie the bozo.
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By pippin Comments: 6174, member since Mon Jan 19, 2009
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 07:02 AM
WilyB wrote:
Sarkozy, whose palace budget exceeds that of the Queen,
Of course you moron, he does work, not like Lizzie the bozo.
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By malbarre Comments: 24121, member since Wed Aug 24, 2005
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends ¢FG10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Nappybonesapart Comments: 15763, member since Fri Aug 27, 2004
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 07:18 AM
Edited by Nappybonesapart (74912) on 2012-02-06 07:19:39
Lizzy is v hard working , no retirement in her job(MBE pls Ma'am)
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By malbarre Comments: 24121, member since Wed Aug 24, 2005
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 08:05 AM
Nappybonesapart wrote:
Lizzy is v hard working , no retirement in her job(MBE pls Ma'am)
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends ¢G10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By Nappybonesapart Comments: 15763, member since Fri Aug 27, 2004
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By WilyB Comments: 28021, member since Sat Apr 26, 2003
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:59 AM
Nappybonesapart wrote:
Lizzy is v hard working , no retirement in her job(MBE pls Ma'am)
I hear she sent 20,000 Xmas cards in her life. Boy, oh boy, you Limeys are cruel with your farcical head of state.
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By malbarre Comments: 24121, member since Wed Aug 24, 2005
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:03 AM
Tha's a nation. What a pity there will be nothing more after Her Majesty...
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By WilyB Comments: 28021, member since Sat Apr 26, 2003
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:22 AM
malbarre wrote:
Tha's a nation. What a pity there will be nothing more after Her Majesty...
At the speed the member-states of that soggy nation are bailing out, soon those monarchs will rule over something about the size of Monaco!
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palaceen>frfr>en By simplefrench Comments: 64175, member since Wed Mar 19, 2003
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 02:45 PM
Nappybonesapart wrote:
Lizzy is v hard working , no retirement in her job(MBE pls Ma'am)
re: Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends ¢G10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Nappybonesapart Comments: 15763, member since Fri Aug 27, 2004
On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:50 PM
it is not known to me, been reading duck in chains again?
i hear your presidents wife got paid to walk around naked in front of photographers- c'est vrai?
