The Labour Mayor of Stafford Borough Council has shown just how much we're all in this together by flying to America with her husband at the taxpayers' expense to celebrate the 350th birthday of Stafford County in Virginia.
The taxpayer will stump up the £1,748 cost of flying Comrade Angela Loughran and her husband across the Atlantic for the 10 day trip to their "sister community" where they will take part in a two hour parade and then spend the next week or so travelling around Virginia taking in the sights and paying a visit to Washington DC.