POINTS OF DISORDER #1

TULIPS from Amsterdam aren’t cheap when the House of Lords spent £1,100 on flowers for the Dutch King and Queen.

The bill that more than doubles the £480 forked out on blooms for a Spanish royal visit the previous year is giving peers hay fever.

Official figures tot up the total cost for 10 speeches by foreign dignitaries to £90,000, including porterage and furnishings, showing there’s always money for the few not the many.