Science Department Spends £575 on Rainbow Pins and Single Pride Flag – Guido Fawkes

Science Department Spends £575 on Rainbow Pins and Single Pride Flag

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Despite repeated promises from ministers that they’re cutting waste in Whitehall, the blob still manages to find ways to casually spend taxpayer money.  Co-conspirators can guess where…

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology admitted via a written parliamentary question that it spent £350 on a single rainbow flag and £225 on rainbow pins last year. To put that in perspective: a large 8-foot “Intersex Progress Pride” flag goes for £25 on Amazon. Rainbow badges are around 75p each – with that budget, roughly 300 pen-pushers would have been wearing one. No ceiling to Labour’s appetite for taxpayer-funded virtue signalling…