Money, Money, Money - It's a rich man's world

Sunak's penchant for helicopter trips is now a Prime Ministerial add-on: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/26/sunak-takes-helicopter-yorkshire-stopoff-two-miles-from-airport?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other, supposedly because his busy schedule can't cope with rail journeys the rest of us have to suffer endlessly. When the PM's helicopter trips are paid for out of the public purse, It would appear that the Conservatives consider the taxpayer to be a bottomless pit of funding that they can spend at will. And I won't even get started about the gargantuan amounts allocated to PPE procurement that got 'fast tracked' to new companies that mysteriously had connections to friends, acquaintances and business associates of Conservative members: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/ppe-medpro-uk-government-issues-breach-of-contract-proceedings?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Then there is Boris Johnson, who assumes that we the tax payer can be tapped to pay his ever expanding lawyer's bill. When did the public become the patsy for such indolent and wanton spending?

The 'rule' that any Prime Minister, whether extinct or otherwise should be given paid legal cover for cases brought against them, is abhorrent and insulting.

The rest of us face legal challenges without the aid of the public purse and our choice to defend or seek justice in law can often hinge on our ability to pay those legal costs. Johnson has earned handsomely since being heaved from office through a trail of paid speaking engagements and now resides in an commodious Oxford dwelling with a moat. Yet we are still expected to pay his costs to defend himself against, in reality, our right to know how many times he broke the rules whilst we hunkered down under lockdown.

Does the public really give off such an aura of compliance and downright stupidity, that it wouldn't be considered an insult to expect us to pay for Johnson's defence of the indefensible and all the other indiscriminate spending that this government appears to consider its personal due?