What sort of treehouse does £150 000 get you?

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Boris and Carrie tried to get a donor to fund building a treehouse at Chequers. Obviously, this is dreadful, and Marina Hyde is brilliant on it here, but what does £150 000 get you these days?

I mean in terms of treehouse, not, ‘What does £150 000 get you as a donor’ (… that’s a bit more obvious).

All here for you to peruse.

www.blueforest.com/contact-us/#our-brochures

No prices obvs (how gauche 🤣)

It was bullet proof apparently. Ridiculous msn.

And just whilst I'm at it in what world does a donor fund a tree house? Not a donation to the party but a lavish gift for the child of a prime minister. And for what in return? Influence over policy? An honour? The whole thing is a disgrace.

Ooh, there’s a review from Natasha Kaplinsky in that brochure.

How the other half live, eh?

Maybe Carrie should sign up for Strictly, then she could pay for it her fucking self.

Maybe he wants Hogwarts ones like J K Rowling.

Well, I’d want at least three bedrooms and indoor plumbing for that price in the countryside. Maybe a studio if it were in a city?

This is wheee the expression ‘more money than sense’ is useful. Except they don’t have the money or the sense, apparently!

One I can't afford. he he.😂

They are such a greedy pair. And surely they can’t assume that he will still be PM by the time their kids get to use it?

£150k would get you a 4 bed 1 bath semi detached freehold treehouse with garage, large south facing back garden, and driveway for 4 cars up in the north.

Would probably get a studio apartment treehouse down south though.

Why isn’t this more known about. He’s a fucking disgrace. This makes me so angry

You can have a weekend in one of those treehouses at Center Parcs for about that.

But not in the school holiday :-)

I find this ridiculous. Chequers is not his own house and while obviously it's only fair to accomodate a child living there I can't really see why something like that should be allowed, whoever is paying for it. It would need regular maintenance, treehouses are open to the elements and need care.

They do seem to indulge in these bucolic fantasies. It is all a bit Marie-Antoinette. Are they trolling us, do you think?

At least David Cameron paid for his own shepherd’s hut.

The difference being of course that she is a very admirable woman with morals who is prepared to stand up and do the right thing even if it makes her unpopular. And of course she paid for her treehouse with money she earnt herself. Remind me, why is he prime minister and not her?

Louis xvi and Marie Antoinette.

It’s interesting that it is always the same sort of thing - bad financial judgement, no moral compass when it comes to money.

… they do look rather gorgeous, though. I would definitely want one that I could exit via a slide (didn’t Jennifer Arcuri have something similar in her flat?).

I want one with a basket-on-a-rope and a slippery-slip.

Honestly, Boris, pay for your own treehouse. You tone-deaf weeble.

Just gorgeous. I hope the people who have these things are happy.

Mine would be the one with the diving board over the outdoor swimming pool btw, with a Victorian rocking horse and a flatscreen.

I wonder if you can do an FOI request and see the plans (because I think they got a fair way along with designing the thing).

I imagine that Boris will have wanted a zip wire into his like he had at the Olympics. And then a sort of late-Henry VIii hoist for more intimate moments (although I agree that Louis XVI comparisons are more apt).

As someone said on twitter, stop calling these people donors and call them what they are, investors.

"the unflushable Lord Brownlow"😂

What sort of stuff do they get in return?

Government contracts, you only have to look at who the covid contracts went to. Knighthoods and a seat at the house of Lords.

Ah. Thank you @Lingoflaming.

But what if Boris reneges on the deal?

Does ‘the unflushable Lord Brownlow’ turn up in dark glasses and whisper menacingly, ‘Don’t forget the treehouse, Boris. You owe me big time for that teddy bear’s picnic table and Hobbit-house effect shingling.’