Politicians' Portraits

[Cloverjo]

What do you think of this?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/14/painting-mps-portraits-is-a-great-way-of-spending-your-money-4262137/

I was sickened by IDS' comment.

[Buenchico]

£20,000 per year (which wouldn't even pay the salary of a single nurse or teacher) to preserve a centuries-old tradition of recording the history of Parliament through portraiture sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[sandyRoe]

And in time they'll be hung in the National Portrait Gallery. Well, some of them.

[sherrardk]

Agree with ou Cloverjo, bloody waste of money in the cash-strapped times and IDS is an idiot saying something like that.

[DaisyNonna]

Complete waste of money.
Wouldn't cross the road to see them.
Self indulgence.

[marje]

IDS is a total waste of space. Does he even stop to think before opening his mouth and spouting rubbish.

Anyway, what's wrong with a photograph to hang in the National Portrait Gallery. Surely a portrait can be a photograph as well as a painting.

[jackthehat]

You did read the bit where it says; "This isn’t the real Twitter account of IDS..." didn't you?

[TWR]

If I answered this Q the way i feel Clover, I would get barred for life.

[Cloverjo]

I assumed he'd actually said it. Was this a fake account?
I still think it's a waste of tax payers money, anyway.

[sherrardk]

I didn't read the fake twitter account bit, just believed it because it seems to be the sort of arrogant *** he would say.

[plowter]

Truth is stranger then wotsit.

Iain Duncan Smith did approve spending £10k on his Westminster portrait

http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/paul-benney/portrait-of-iain-duncan-smith/6383

[ladybirder]

It tells you in your own link it isn't real Cloverjo.

[ladybirder]

You seem to be spending a long time staring at IDS's portrait Bouncer. Is there something we should know:o)