Guido is looking forward to summering at the Maison Secondaire even more this year. France has just cut booze and restaurant sales tax from 19.6% to to 5.5%. Booze taxes are already reasonable in France, this makes going out even more reasonable. A three course meal in the best restaurant in the town near Chez Fawkes costs about the same as a starter in London or Dublin. We all have to do our bit to boost international trade…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Fantastic! Booze cruise days are here again.
Always a bit of a dilemma in the Summer:
France or Scotland
Well I’m going to England for my Holidays this year. So independence must be due. Heard the pubs were empty and hope the toilets have improved in 20 years.
If we’re lucky, Gordon will announce exactly the same measure, then claim it was his idea all along. There’s a policy no-one will mind him stealing.
Unlike his pathetic performance yesterday: The Boy Arrives Late, Lies About Where He’s Been.
Why can’t he open his mouth with lying or spinning?
22 McDoom NEVER opens his fat, gurning gob without lying or spinning!
Make mine a litre. Makes you proud to be an EU member doesn’t it?
Derrieres up.
Y’know, just because you were burned at the stake once doesn’t mean it can’t happen again……..
And the NHS ever ready to treat your cirrhosis. Funded by everyone elses booze taxes.
Anyone notice Vince Cable in the muck raking
Zero (and i repeat this) second home claim, as he lives in outer London and commutes by train..
Guido… you need to damm the bad, and praise the good as much….
Having people claim Zero compared to those who claim £20k very important!!!!
Also nice to here GB thinking (is this really true??) about payback for days… but as ever
he seems to have dithered and Cameron beat him to the line…. doh!
And now Last-Past-the-Post Gordon has asked for “Independent Scrutiny” of MP’s expenses. We’ve got news for you: Independent Scrutiny: We’re already doing it.
We’ve got all the info. we need, thanks to the Telegraph: we can make up our own minds now.
We’ll take it from here, Gordon.
pass da peadlos over freddies going to france
(chanting) Barmy Navy. Barmy Navy. Barmy Navy.
is there live pmq chat?
Doesn’t look like it, Freddie. A shame – today’s promises to be a rout and I’m thoroughly looking forward to watching Michael Martin squirm in a purply fashion.
Liz, is the ‘purply fashion’ provided by Woolas, with receipts, of course?
Not such a dilemma, and it’s not just the booze.
Whilst I love the scenary and so on, I get fed up with the all the nationalist guff (Saltaires over petrol stations for Christ’s sake) and over the years I have had my share of Caledonian “charm”….
“How come you (an Englishman) are doing this work?”
As in…. “here in Scotland”.
When I frequently find myself working with Scots who seem to be perfectly at home in England…. taking it for granted, as it were.
Visiting Scotland reminds me of this double standard, so I make alternative arrangements.
Sluurp and sluurp again, but strictly between mouthfuls of duck, pork, beef, pate, cheese or what have you. My local restaurants and bars are going to get a hammering !
I don’t drink dammit!
How can FRANCE cut their VAT on restaurant meals etc. from 19.6% to 5.5% ?
I thought that the EU didn’t allow that ? Any advices ?
164 .. here here! He’s had to do some wrangling with the EU to get permission to do this.
I remember when fish and chips was VAT free! ( 1983 at a guess?)
Yer should be supping on gruel and tuckin into a plate o neeps and tatties. Ne foreign grub for you, laddie. Wid’ ma dull ways I’ll make a prude o you yet and I’ll tax you jimmy.
MPs already have cheaper booze and food.
Zak wonders whether MPs have the morals of rats ?
Nah, MPs’ morals are not that good!
Just Imagine that lemon sucking, killjoy, tight arsed bungling sack of saggy shit Brown doing such a thing.
He’s too busy being a bundle of pent up, manse reared spite.
quite frankly the description I have been struggling to express – well done !
They have their prioroties right,
Fantastic! Think I’ll be booking another booze cruise later this summer.
Even better than your ‘Dolly is a cauldron-stirring smearer’ announcement. Good news is rare but very welcome.
Come to Hong Kong, Guido.
0% tax on wine, beer………
Best Italian food I’ve eaten outside Italy is in HK.
Travel costs make Honkers a little impractical for a booze cruise though.
Get elected and put it on expenses.
Failing that borrow a credit card or two.
Quite – I can enjoy an agreeable 3 course Italian lunch with the Tuscana for € 25; a nice little Japanese restaurant near Florence Ikea is the same. Its never ever less than a hundred sheets when in central London. The news today on councils’ new powers to ban happy hour completely misses the point: if it was money that was the determining factor, the wealthy would be vomiting in the gutters all weekend and it would be the poor huddled round their dining tables, not the other way round.
25 for you and 25 for La Tuscana? Or might you be willing to whisper the name of the nearest town, or even the street? It’s risen to 50-70 for two round here.
HG – 43o 48’ 05.75” N 11o 11’ 25.65” E on Google Earth: its a proper Japanese (run by a Japanese family ) restaurant, € 10 a head for lunch (great range of Bento boxes) € 20 per head for the evening feast. Location is the industrial estate near Ikea and airport, easy via bus. I have the name and number somewhere if you’re interested. [apols for the OT chat, Gido]
I’m not sure I could eat a whole head for lunch.
Kind of puts the latest government fact-finding study of pubs under the spotlight.
The facts that they intend to find are:
Breweries and landlords are to blame for rising costs.
Breweries and landlords are to blame for falling customer numbers.
Government tax-rises not to blame for rising costs.
Government smoking ban not to blame for falling customer numbers.
Landlady quadruples trade at her pub in Barnley by declairing it a smokeing reaserch centre. Smokers have to fill in a questionnair regarding their smokeing habits before they light up in a designated room. source, mail online, news
One can only admire English resourcefulness.
knock off the “e” and add “ing”
Genious
Barnsley council say they will put a stop to it. Not sure why, she was just following the rules. Maybe she should just offer to repay her excess profits from her increased trade and they’ll leave her alone.
I can’t believe you support this kind of nonesense.
Its all down to pressure group and “whingeocracy”. Those who complain loudest get the best treatment. The farmers with the biggest tractors to park on the most important travel links get all the freebies.
When you fart about(*) with the tax system to placate pressure groups you get more and more rules every year and end up with a horrendously complex, tedious, pointless, irritating set up.
(*) I shall repeat “fart about” … its not about genuine tax cuts, and the opposite of removing administrative burdens from business.
Ordinarily I would agree with you except in this case the high cost of drink in this country sums up the hateful, moralizing anti-fun claptrap you get from politicians, churches and medicos. Now, where’s that gin bottle …
Actually the biggest whingers stormed the gates with pitchforks crying “Vive Le Nation!” and beheaded their ruler.
Ah if only it could happen over here.
Revolution: The ultimate whinge.
Whinging obviously gets results…
43. yep. lots of taxpayers money for farmers and retired railwayworkers.
You know theres no expression for “taxpayers money” in France.
Tim, just because you think it is nonsense doesn’t make it so.
hmmm. and you cant read.
IDLE CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPPERS ARE FINDING NEW OPPORTUNITIES INDy EXPENSE ACCOUNT AND CORPORATE TAX DODGING SECTOR
ASTA
THE LATEST BANGKH OF INGLAND PRESCRIPTION FOR RECOVERY
IS LARGE DOSES OF RISK AVERSION THERAPY
FOLLOWED BY MASSIVE KAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE DOWNTURN
Cut booze tax?
I’ll drink to that (in an hour or so).
There’s nothing like a wee bowl of gruel on a cold morning.
Is this your second home?
Read the text you dummy. What do you think ‘Maison secondaire’ means?
When in England I speak only English.
And this, THIS was Brown/Darling’s best idea to boost the economy! They RAISED the tax on booze!
How wise, how noble are our government? (On a scale of 1 to 10, they are at minus 20 and dropping like the proverbial stone.
Only -20?
You’re too kind to them….
Yes, you could be right on that, old chap!
Guido
You are right..
But better to have a résidence secondaire than being a resident in fact
You do not have to pay our other horrendous taxes…
So enjoy the restaus and have a good holiday..
You deserve it after your stout work denouncing all the Troughers…
And I am sure Mrs Guido does as well !!
Guido
wait until you factor in the exhange rate.
My pint in Paris last month cost £8 and it wasn’t anywhere fancy.
Try drinking beer instead of wine. I think you’ll find its cheaper by the pint, unless you were in a girly bar.
It was a 500 (half litre) not a 568 which is a pint which turns out at 9.08
And might it have been € it was bought in?
Remember folks support the BBC who brings us great comedians like,er, gotta go there is an opening of an envelope somewhere!
That’s nothing, my pint costs £14 in the village.
Mind you, it is vodka.
That’s nothing my earlymornin g and t is on expenses, cheers!!!
Huh? My gallon at the local BP garage cost me £4.38 but the taste of unleaded is not growing on me. Perhaps try it with a shot of RedEx next time.
What exchange rate? Guido is based in Euroland.
Labour has a long-term strategy to destroy country pubs in England so that Tories have nowhere to meet to complain about the government. Any idea how it’s coming along?
I’m still waiting for 24 hour drinking to bring about the French Cafe Culture promised by the government when they amended the licensing laws – The ambience isn’t quite same as on the Continents as you watch people throw up their cheap “Happy Hour” booze into the nearest gutter or have a piss up the nearest wall or the police throwing drunks into the back of transits on Friday & Saturday evening or come to think of it most evenings
Funny you should write that.
The source that a MP in the Northampton area put the house in the wife’s name so that he could do some serious troughing was a guy in an Irish pub who was discussing with a group of fishermen serious expense fiddling.
Such as getting a first class ticket then down grading and pocketing the difference or even cancelling the flight and staying overnight and pocketing the full amount.
Indeed someone claimed enough mileage to go around the equator (bigger circumference of the World) twice. Which equates to travelling 137 miles a day each and every day.
Its doing very well as is their attempts to destroy the very fabric of our nation. Christianity is their latest target.
‘Our nation’ has been here longer than Christianity. And it’ll be here long after the man on the cross has been forgotten.
Only a bent copper or someone pretending to be copper could come out with such a short sentence with so many factual and ethical inaccuracies. You poor little retard!!!!
BROWN TRIUMPH
fat chance
just wanted to point folks at the petition (co-created by Heather Brooke of FOI renown) referred in Guido’s links
I assume you mean THIS Heather Brooke
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-566757/Meet-redhead-FINALLY-forced-MPs-publish-expenses.html
rather than the other, more ‘interesting’ lady that ‘comes’ up first in Google??
Heather Harman? You installed the wrong Harman you ignorant barstewards!
O/T But thought you would like to know how the Great Leader learned how to chuck a Nokia. Evidently Sarah his Lavender partner has been taking lessons fro Naiomi Campbell and passing them on. Also palled up with Paris Hilton whose expertise in blow jobs is for all to see on the net. Perhaps that’s what the Youtube Grin was all about.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1180972/The-night-Sarah-Brown-wowed-Paris-Hilton-star-studded-event-LA.html
All the French should be sent to the moon apart from their chefs and hot women.
I’m sure they’d work on doing that.
They’d love all the subsidy to their aerospace industry.
Hot women that shave their legs.
The girls in Nantes drop their pants for English pork sword avec boules, allegedly. But I wouldn’t know anything about that sort of thing.
Thought French chix didn’t wear em?
I am pleased to announce that I appear nude except for a “jock” strap this morning in New Boy’s Lonely Hearts Club…published by my friend Woolas…
Was told “jock” is fashionable nowadays…
Just to improve your day…
Mandy is quivering in pre-orgasmic lust..
Your Boy’s Own Piggy Bryant
Vive La France! Vive La Revolution.
Do you have a guillotine over there Guido? Can I borrow it for a few weeks?
I promise to get it sharpened back to pristine once I’ve finished or I’ll buy you a knew one if it gets worn out.
All Brown will say is let them eat cake!
Not cake, but it rhymes and has a c and k in it.
Buvez Biere!
Err, ummm, errr.
It is obviously a way to encourage more entrepreneurs to import vast quantities of booze for personal consumption
…and a great way to have a good day out
“The Rusty Lady’s greater crime was to unleash a greed-is-good culture and trash the noble ideal of public service, civil servants required by the”
“Socialists” have needed needed any help in the greed stakes
and stop putting on a Viz style accent you bell end
Thanks to all the publicity you have given me I am changing the name of my column in The Times to
HOW TO MAKE ELEPHANT LAMPS WHILE ON THE DOLE
for all the unemployed hedgies troughers etc
I will have a HUGE audience..
Bless you Guido for launching my media career…
IRA VANESH <— She really should be Sarah Vini in keeping with the topic being discussed here.
RAVA SHINE
JMT @ 9
This pub has got round the smoking ban by making itself a ‘research centre’. Might catch on if the state security don’t shut it down first.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180826/Landlady-transforms-pub-smoking-research-centre-legal-loophole-customers-smoke-indoors.html
They’ll be have a minke whale harpoon bar next!
How about a nationwide pubs survey to see whether the smoking ban has fcuked our pubs? All within the rules in the legislation of course.
A bit of common sense in Holland now too http://tinyurl.com/NLsmoke
It is the VAT rate. Strangely, France has always charged VAT at 5.5% on a Big Mac and fries.
Even better than the low VAT, you can have a beer with your big mac meal.
I predict a D-Day type landing at the coast of France soon to partake of all the lovely food and wine on offer. Sarkosy and his team have the right ideas.
I am so ashamed of our parliment so deeply pathetical, weak and useless.
Not voting would be the kindest.
Its like watching an old dog with no teeth trying to eat a toffee.
Brown is like a bulldog with a wasp in his mouth
Yet in the mean time, Zanu Labour blames the poor for drinking too much so adds so many taxes that illegal imports are a trouble. Then they hypocrite Chancellor puts pressure on Liechtenstein and Switzerland for their tax rules, ignoring UK controlled Cayman Islands, where 80% of trust finds are based.
My husband thanks you as well…
I know you think he is a bit odd but he is alright really…
He will invite you for a subsidised drink (as long as you don’t fall down) at the Bar of the House of Commons…to meet the other Troughers you have not already met at the Westminister Arms…
Perhaps something for the Brits and the crap pound. It is putting off UK tourists from going to the Eurozone. This should help – a bit.
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According to Kavin Meguire in the Daily Mirror, MPs’ expenses is all Thatcher’s fault. And here’s me thinking that it had started in America.
Well it is the Mirror – its really all her fault some Labour low-life was caught with his piggy fingers in the till nearly 20 years after she left office.
In 1000 years time the Mirror will still blame Maggie Thatcher when planet earth is being invaded by Martians, Venusians or some other intergalactic outfit.
We’ll give you a wide berth, don’t worry
The vanguard of the aien invasion force is here. Step forward Kevin “Captain Asteroid” Magure!
Silly me! I should have realised earlier that it was all ther fault of Mrs. Thatch. That you Mirror for pointing this out! You would not get such reporting in the Telegraph as it does not concern itself with what matters to the working class like what I am.
Toilets Maguire has his nose stuck well up Brown’s arsehole.
It’s a smell I’m comfortable with
Extra careful on the roads, then. Especially around mid-afternoon and late at night. Still, the plat du jour will be altogether more enjoyable, eh?
Can I get one of these jobs as a Cashpoint Escort, mate?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/12/gordon-brown-cashpoint-police
Poor man, he really HAS lost it.
The comments afterwards from Guardian readers, are priceless. They despise Brown as much as we do.
‘We do’? We are all Guardian readers.
Is that some sort of fucking joke? We don’t do walking anymore. Over.
He has forgotten how to live, how life ACTUALLY IS. He has been in a Security bubble for at least 12 years, HE sees police everywhere, on rooftops, round corners when he goes to buildings. He does not realise that is because of the position HE holds. He must think that is how secure the UK is.
He probably thinks one of the nice Policemen he sees on the roof can help the old granny home when she withdraws her pension from the cash point. This proves beyond anything HE HAS LOST IT.
What about baccy?
I am now reduced to smoking a right rough old ‘Shag’ and I dont mean Jaqui Smith.
I will have 60 seconds silence for you and then a minutes for that poor sod Richard Timney who is expected to do her after being turned on by Television X.
Yes, but a titfuck if blindfolded?
Stop tormenting us Guido, with this talk of holidays and houses and other things beyond the ken of us mere mortals.
What do you know about the Cooper-Balls expenses?
Come on now, don’t be shy.
Oh Those Sweaty balls. Not long now, and we’ll all know.
Shame on you, you lucky devil! It’s at times like this that I wished I lived nearer the channel.
PHIL HOPE
42 grand says you are a Hunt.
won’t be easy finding that kind of wonga, you Hunt
I just read this on an earlier thread, it’s sodding disgraceful that those hoons Mandelson and Campbell are still running the BBC…..
BBC dissident says:
May 13, 2009 at 9:21 am
I think it’s appalling the way that Nick Robinson takes regular phone calls from Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson discussing what line to take on the latest political revelations.
It was most obvious on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning when Robinson and Evan Davies tried to imply deceipt and wrongdoing on Cameron’s part over his mortgage interest payments and the unsubstantiated suggestions that Tory MPs are angry with him because he is wealthy and can furnish his house unaided by expenses whereas they cannot.
This is pure Labour spin, and, of course, there was no mention of the far biggest offenders in all of this like Darling, Hoon, and Blears.
It’s no wonder we call him Toenails at the BBC.
Blatant political bias like this is justification for Cameron to order a major clear out and slash the licence fee after the next election.
The injunction against the Telegraph revealing their expenses by Balls, Cooper, Mick Martin, and several other Labour MPs is being challenged in court this week.
If the Telegraph loses then they should let the gory details slip out via a website. Guido’s for instance
Why is the Telegraph covering up the full extent of Gordon Brown’s troughing and is it true that Labour backbenchers, inc Blunkett, are going to be exposed in tomorrow’s paper?
Blunkett? Not Blunkett the People’s Friend? I’d no more believe he is a fiddler than I would believe Blears is.
I bet the legal bill(s) were passed to the Fees Office!!
Incidentally I wonder if any of the hubby/wife combos at Westminster are doing a “double”.
Mr MP claims House A as main, B as secondary.
Mrs MP claims House B as main, A as secondary.
Mr MP can sell House A CGT free.
Mrs MP can sell House B CGT free.
Meanwhile ALL bills/running costs for both houses are paid for by the taxpayer. Costs to Mr & Mrs MP = £0
How many Mr/Mrs MP double-acts infest Westminster?
How could you find out if the above “perfectly within the rules” ruse is being used?
I think someone suggested Wikileaks earlier – they have encrypted mirror servers in several jurustictions and they’ve NEVER taken anything down that was posted there….
Any details about the original injunctions ?
Is the Court hearing in camera ?
I would love to know more..Or is there a gag order on the gag order ?
Say as much as you can in NUZANULAB land please !
Yes, there’s a gag order on the gag order.
It’s not likely to happen here, under Brown’s Depleasurization Directives. Why, people might enjoy themselves!
I thought the excuse used for not cutting VAT further was that 15% was the lowest sales tax allowed in the EU?
Since when have the French ever taken notice of any of the laws made by the EU that did not benefit them.
Never…!
But the British should do the same..
SIlly idea to follow nthe rules of the EUSSR…
Critic of second home allowance going for a holiday in his second home
Is it just me or is it a bit bizzare Guido is off to his second home when he has been a bit critic of MPs second homes???
Yest it is. Most people who have second homes pay for them themselves.
The crucial difference being that us taxpayers didn’t pay for Guido’s second-home.
GEDDIT FUCKWIT?!!!
I suppose I meant the moral question of people having numerous homes when some people have no where to live…. whether its the tax payer.. (MPs) or the consumer (through the market) we all pay for people’s second homes… the only difference is that through the market we have a choice about what we buy…. in politics we have a choice but it is only every four years… and arguably they are all on the take…
yeah but hopefully he didnt pay for his second home using the states help.
anyway guido why didnt you just pay the cheeky 10 grand needed to get the disc of MPs expenses now the hoons at the telegraph have it. You can obviously afford abit of cheque book journalism now and again
A couple of “Labour wives” are on Radio 5 Live right now whinging about how poor they are really and how they have to scrimp and save.
Boo fucking hoo!!
Are they looking for sympathy or are they mistaking us for people who give a shit?
I’m just listening to it now. Sickening, thorougly sickening. These people don’t have a clue.
One of the Labour wives is now whining about what a terrible time “poor Yvette Cooper” has struggling with three children on a limited income.
Unbelievable
These women are wives of Labour MPs. Sounds like they’ve been sent out to try to get sympathy, but their arrogance and complaining is counterproductive.
The pleading on behalf of Yvette Cooper was particularly sickening.
Is the shit about to hit the fan for Balls/Cooper?
Once I’ve stopped shaking I’ll be popping out to buy some piano wire before the shops run out.
If they are lookers unlike Blears, Harman, and Smith etc they could always see about appearing on Sky Channel 903.
Livingstone on DP – what the f……
DP? Double penetration? Dirty old bastard!
Given the French penchant for hurling cobblestones when they get disenchanted with the political classes, cheap booze and a hot summer might make for a little local colour.
I wish the English had the same fine instincts.
You can watch Prime Minister’s questions live on the Downing St web site.
Proof that Brown is mad. Guardian readers think so too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/12/gordon-brown-cashpoint-police
come on PMQs thread?
Sorry. I thought it was the PMS q.
PMQs?
oi, guido, stop salavating over le menu and get the Cover Slaughter Live sorted.
cheers!
And gordon slaps tax on Booze——because he’s a Hunt.
Gordon Brown appoints himself as Speaker of the House!
Is the price of a meal at a restaurant in a presumably small town in France a fair comparison with the price in London or Dublin? I am sure there are plenty of restaurants in Britain where you can get a meal for the cost of a starter in a Paris restaurant.
Only if you want to eat crap food and be pestered by an under qualified waiter whose only turn of phrase is “you wanna go supersize withat?”
Paris isn’t France.
You and me the same Guido – except in 5 years I will be living in the SoF coz I’m sick to the back teeth of the scum bags that run this crap country. And it ain’t gonna get any better. Love ‘em or hate ‘em – the French have got this game of politics, along with the finer things in life, sorted.
I live in la belle France, driven out by the appalling mismanagement of the country. My pint (500cl) of draft Guinness now costs a lot less at my local bar. That’s got to be a move in the right direction.
I love Christine Lagarde…
C’est très bien, ça.
Gag Order! has Judge Eady struck again then????????????
As though Guido needs to eat and drink anymore?
Yes totally agree since the MP’s of all party’s have done a brilliant job of turning everything in this country to shite we’re also going on hols to France.
By the way where do all the MP’s go on holiday. I bet it’s not in the UK either?
Bon jour Guido! Don’t tell ffffffffoulkes about the cheap wino, or he’ll be over here tout de suite (or even sooner than that), with his pal Monsieur le speaker. They’re fond of a tipple. When you go back, don’t forget to take the guillotines, we’ll man the barriers. A bientot, et sante!
Er…”Wine lovers will not be raising their glasses in celebration because the agreement does not cover alcohol.” NYT
Hope Chez Guido is nowhere near where I went skiing recently or all the cut will mean is the price of a beer in a bar dropping from £6 a pint (equivalent) to £5.80.
Despite being a moderate to heavy drinker, I don’t pay any duty on alcohol. I’d rather brew my own and deprive the chancellor of the money. I’d hate to think how much extra the Treasury would have taken from me in taxes over the past decade if I had gone to the supermarket instead. Probably getting on for ten grand, I shouldn’t wonder.
Homebrew wines are the best bet, and then bitters. Don’t bother with lager, the water in this country isn’t suited to it.
A three course meal in the best restaurant in the town near Chez Fawkes costs about the same as a starter in London or Dublin.
Depends upon the restaurant. My nearest in Cannes does a decent 3 courses with 1x Sancerre 1x Margaux for about €96 for 2. Having said that my favourite in Eze (Chevré D’Or) is around €300 for 2. Not even going to think about the prices that the Eden Roc are charging now (€85 just to use the pool now)
Great News Sir Guido… However, I,ve been to the nearest LeClerc and Super U to Chez Angry, and can’t see the publicity. Never mind. Decent reds for under 5 euro, a very nice St Nicholas de Bourgeil at 9euro and a 5 litre box of Corbierres for under 10. So it wasn’t a wasted journey!
Sorry! The tax cut doesn’t include alcohol – only non alcoholic beverages
Tuscany will be empty of nuLabour this summer can’t afford a holiday if they have to pay pack all those claims! how will the Italian tourist industry recover?
By leaving the euro.
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