Hungry for Taxes: MPs Lunch Subsidy Now £8,823 Per Annum
Hungry? Fancy a rib-eye steak and hand-cut chips with béarnaise sauce served in the agreeable setting of a restaurant in an historic building on the riverside. Waited on by liveried waiters bringing silver service to white linen tables? It will cost our MPs a mere £7.80 and you’ll chip in £5.93 in subsidy for that lunch. We are all in it together.
If you are a vegetarian or dieting for the New Year perhaps you would like an artichoke and tomato salad drizzled with truffle dressing? Only £2.05 in the MPs’ dining room thanks to the £1.56 that minimum wage taxpayers have contributed to the MPs lunch in subsidy. The 646 MPs have their lunches subsidised to the tune of £8,823 each per annum. Three years after the expenses scandal, MPs are still troughing at our expense…
Just a small salad for me.
and some black pudding
I like black pudding , fried in its own fat and bean shoots, luvly jubbly
And a food allowance they can use on anything, as they do not have to provide receipts. Right to recall please, not the current one proposed by Clegg.
We want Elizabeth Filkin back to sort these corrupt people out.
Abbott and Pickles could save us a fortune with a diet.. context, I was generalising about fat people.
Oh for crying out loud, plenty of places have ‘works canteens’ that are subsidised by the company. At least when using the lunch facilities at the Houses of Parliament MPs are actually THERE doing their jobs.
Unlike Brown.
But silver service is hardly canteen is it?
we (chomp) are all (snuffle) (munch) in (slurp) this (gulp) (swill) together!
no big ee
move along please
there are bigger fish to fry
I don’t care if the food is delivered by penguins on gold lamé. What matters to me is that the MPs are actually in the building.
Unlike Brown.
Where did all the Black Forest Gateau geau?
They wanted to eat what they thought the poor people ate
In my part of the blick forest normal people eat lots of blickberries whilst wearing blick socks and blick shoes too. Don’t attend many blick tie dinners though.
It ouent to every subsidised council canteen en Bretagne.
What about the European Parliament subsidised restaurants. Steaks with Bernaise sauce for 5 euros!! cooked to order in front of you by trained chefs
Racist!
They never give me enough chips.
Just eat the huge one on your shoulder.
Brilliant
Vaz on SKY says as far as he is concerned we should accept Abotts apology and move on. Would he be advising such a course if it was a white person who had made an analogous comment about the Black “Community”.
The Oily One would slither up to any microphone and say that though, wouldn’t he?
The fact that Abbot made her racist twitterings by including the hash tag #Tacticasoldascolonialism should not be underestimated. By using this she clearly intends to attempt this topic to trend and thus was attempting to incite others and spread her poison.
It also indicates that she was NOT referring to colonialism, but current-day ‘tactics’. Otherwise, she would have said “tacticusedduringcolonialism’ or the like.
Was he as keen to move on from Carol Thatcher or Patrick Mercer’s comments?
I have to watch the ‘black’ weight,can’t get enough of that black stuff !.
can’t they send themselves a healthy eating leaflet? or one after they have been weighed to be told whether or not they are obese?
Why did Prezza need to eat all the pies with that lot, and Pickles to gorge himself on large curries
Love to have gorged myself on a Curry…Edwina style. Slide over Prime Minister…
UK Basic State Pension £102.15 per week (maximum)
Taxpayer canteen subsidy to each MP per week £169.67.
About 5.5 million taxpayers in the UK earn £169.67 or less per week BEFORE TAX.
About 4.5% of households in the UK have income of less than £169.67 per week.
You have to remember that we MP’s are incredibly important and should be treated as such. That our weekly food subsidies in Parliament are more than the minimum wage is irrelevant, because people on minimum wage cannot afford to eat the food we are provided with, so there is no comparison. Our salaries are a pittance for the work we are supposed to do, and should be doubled immediately. For example when our well earned holiday finishes next week, I will immediately be off on official business to various places in Eastern Europe and it will be no picnic, I can assure you; as although the hotels I will be staying in are supposed to be 5* they are not really, no more than 4*+. Must go now, off for a spin in my new Range Rover Evoque.
Driving around in my Range Rover Evoque
Looking for young girls to pick up and poke.
Boaz.
God,i am so so sorry that i failed to read the wisdom of
your truth before i posted mine.
As an upstart caterer,i would also presume that ALL the food & beverages
are subsidised,meaning working lunches,buffets, canapés,& even take-aways
are being sub’d by US ?.
Look, the amount of glad handing corruption that occurs DAILY within
the ‘mother of democracy’ is fucking astounding!!.
I wish to dissociate myself with the following memes which are being repeated by some in the media. I do so because I do not believe them to be true and tjose who first uttered them are lying.
1. Abotts comments have been taken out of context.
This is a lie the context is clear , she is saying that White people today in the present tense practice the same Policy of Divide and conquor as 19 century Colonialists.
2. Abbot has apologised unreservedly and everyone accepts this ( Chucka)
I for one havent, for the simple reason that she hasnt apologised unreservedly, she is still making excuses and lying about the context.
I feel it necessary to make it clear that I do not accept an of these interpretations which now appear to be gatheting some traction in the media.
I am sure others feel the same.
+1
Perhaps the ‘black community’ accepts it her unreserved lies…um, apology.
Perhaps the ‘white community’ does too. Except these ‘communities’ are mythical.
We are a spectrum of peoples not ‘communities’ and as a white person I have more empathy with a black anti-racist than with a racist of any colour.
Abbots remarks are themself divisive.
You obviously do not read your comments Guido. You had the story as it happened.
http://order-order.com/2012/01/04/conservative-arab-network-is-back-minus-some-players/#comment-1181508
The All In It Together Parliamentary Bar Closure e-petition
Now will you sign and lets see the bastard MP’s debate this……………
“I think if MPs slept on a park bench and starved themselves that would still be too much for some people.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8424805.stm
“Out of context” in 140 characters…that’s hard to do she must be very very clever.
Only 8.8K Ms. Abbott will surely starve !!
She won’t starve,her eyes are too close together !!
Close down all subsidised bars/resturants in the palace of Westminster.
Let them mix with taxpayers for a change.
I think you will find Billy that they wouldn’t like to mix with the rif raf………
Or pay anything like the prices they force on us.
Example: Tony Blair hosts a canapé party for the North Korean
human rights committee,we (tax payer)will never know that WE
have underwritten this occasion.
Ok this only a scenario but it gives one time to think !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Where would Guido go when associating with various MPs
The gutter?
Well they certainly don’t subsidise any of the stores food or offerings to the hoi-polloi outside Portcullis House.
But if it is shipped in ?? & out ??
what was it the late john smith called his constituents “the raggedy arsed brigade”
Fat B*stards.
Steady on there….. you will have Lord Prescott after you, he is shop steward of the Pie Eaters Union
I`ll have the b*stard as draught excluder.
Oh I thought that he was the Hon. President of the Desperate Dan Pie Club
And yet the cost of basic caffeteria food used by the other 3000 people who work at the Houses of Parliament, including interns, posties, cleaning staff, police and various other lower paid jobs continue to rise…
any chance of a menu and prices from each being posted here
one for starters
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/foi/FOI-Catering-The-Pugin-Room-Bar-Menu-F11-061.pdf
Heard of Google?
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/foi/FOI-Catering-6th-floor-Cafe-7-Millbank-menu-F11-061.pdf
NB STOUP of the week!!
Just shows how out of touch these lazy cnuts are. No private sector canteen serves alcohol these days.
You forget Ginny, they consider themselves directors
Not ‘Faulty Towers’ pricewise is it?
I see one of the black teas is “rich & perky”. How much for steak Dianne?
For this piece of offal the chefs knife would be Very blunt !!.
And the blighters want to introduce minimum alcohol pricing to increase our costs.
Makes one turn to drink…………if one could afford it!
Hopefully Ms Abbott will donate her money to the starving people in Africa
No no the well padded kids in private education !
Seb coe’s a Hunt
Yup but a very rich one!
To be fair Guido, the truffle dressing tastes only so-so at best.
I thought that the truffles were the ones who came in to eat there.
Then they claim the £7b.80 back on exes
As the ex Mrs regan is responsible for all of the HOP catering (no she isnt a cook) I mat call her and see if she can arrange for me to piss in the soup
What about the loss of vat paid on the true cost of the meal, don’t tell me they don’t charge vat anyway
Sneaky fucker,we try hard !!!!!
It is important to make at least 5 expenses claims a day for a healthy bank balance.
Anyone know where I can rent some basement rooms in the SW1A area. I need somewhere to store some large barrells that have come into my possession?
Asking for a friend….
Try that mock gothic building on the bank of the Thames especially if they contain brandy
I found a place to store some barrels once. Did me no good in the long term but you have to appreciate the intention.
They deserve every mouthful for the tireless hard work they do on our behalf. God bless them all.
Margaret Thatcher passes away one day, and is sent down to hell. Once Thatcher has been checked in at reception and everything is in order, she plunges down into the abyss. Five minutes later, Reception in Heaven receives a panicked phone call from Hell. “What’s the matter?” Heaven asks. Hell Reception replies: “It’s Margaret Thatcher, she’s a damned nuisance. We want you to have her.” Heaven Reception calmly declares: “Since Thatcher’s been condemned, we can’t have her. You must have her!” Hell screams in rage: “She’s already shut down ten furnaces!”
What’s that expression, “Heaven won’t let me in and Hell’s afraid I’ll try to take over”?
“Ain’t that what Catholics call “doing the limbo” Guido?” ?
as long as they are taxed on it as a benefit, I don’t care.
There is a cute difference between allowances and expenses, expenses are like what mps get and are NOT taxed, allowances are what their underlings get and is taxed
I have to make do with cheese rolls and a packet of Disco crisps.
Rolls?
Luxury. I dream of having rolls.
A roll and a gallop Steve
£8,823 each?
Not much otherwise
No wonder his beard is always on holiday – away from him I note.
It owes £3m though, no doubt
So what?
In my school of economics that’s just a huge growth (negative) of minus £2m, modernised for the future.
Will this be connected to the Charity Gordon and Sarah said they would immerse themselves in when out of Politics ?
This IS the charity gord is up to his neck inhis charity
The World Economic Forum and New York University are bungs, set up as alibis for Mr Brown’s non-attendance to his proper job and Mrs Brown’s shopping trips and ski vacations. (What else does one do in Switzerland and New York?) The people who really run things in the world are situated in these two locations, of course. As for the Browns, the French say: Never ask the family how the first million was made.
Is he going to invest it in euros?
Presumably, as he has set up a company as a vehicle for his ‘earnings’, he will be paying himself and his missus a dividend rather than a salary and in doing so reduce his tax liability (rather like a number of senior BBC personalities do).
Given that Liebour are keen to ensure that people pay their fair share of taxes, I think Gordon should clarify his tax arrangments (or perhaps some lazy beeboid might get round to asking him one day)
Disgraceful comment, next thing you will be alleging that the cleaner whom he claimed all that money for was fictitious. Please withdraw your scurrilous accusation.
I wonder if we taxpayers will ever be sued by the likes of Lord Prescott & renowned racist Dianne Abbott for giving them access to food to which they became addicted?
Let them eat cake.
If I’m grilled I’d like a small salad with it please.
Don’t forget the Rιce and black eyed Ρeas
If you’re sacked, you’ll be asking other people would they like a small salad with it. Can’t imagine you in any other job.
Perhaps she’d also like some white truffles and some vin blanc to wash them down.
You seem to have a beef with some of these MPs, dear.
And you have a massive chip on your shoulder
oooh! Saucy Elsie!
Guido’s certainly picking over the bones of this story, Elsie.
Mostly resulting in Piss and Wind.
When I answer the door to my home-help each day, she always greets me with a cheery, “You’re in again, Elsie?” Quite strange, dear.
Ed really cracked the whip over Abbottgate. Waiting all morning to act and doing so live on air was masterful. He deserves to be leader.
DUEMA
“British jobs for British workers”
“I saved the world”
“I am the great leader”
“Sarah my head hurts”
Try turning the Aqua-Vac to *blow* for a while, dear.
Chuka spinning like a top on BBC news, when asked about ‘posh white boys’ comments he said “lots of people have called them posh”
Yes but that wasn’t the point, what does their colour have to do with it?
Chucky is institutionally bigotted.
Wind to 2min30sec
Exactly, she has previously used the word ‘white’ in a negative context.
Ms Abbott has to go.
Where is this ‘apology’ then? Not on camera obviously.
Poor Chuka.
He’s spouting all this crap but inside you just know he’s thinking…
“stupid fucking bitch!!! stupid fucking bitch!!! stupid fucking bitch!!!”
Chucka “I dont think its helpful”
Translation “Please stop this line of questioning as Im fucked if you pursue it “
+1
Make their mothers have to pack them a Marmite sandwich.
Rιce and Ρeas, Divide and Rule.
That’s why they’re all clinically obese.
Surely Fatbott is morbidly obese?
Nothing is ever going to change in the highly over-populated Westminster Bubble, where most of the lazy bastards have nothing to do anyway because it’s all done in Brussels these days, until Cameron has the guts to change it. He has shown no inclination to do much about anything yet, so don’t hold your breath. Fuck the lot of them…
I’ve a feeling in me bones that the British public have detected more than a wisp of hypocrisy in the Lawrence case and the backlash is happening.
blacklash?
remeber the cricket when the winides beat england 5-0 . they didnt mind it being called a blackwash did they?
You’ve forgotten the other 11,500 people who work here…
I think it absolutely correct to make sweeping generalisations about races and then judge individuals. Its called freedom of thought and speech.
Greeks are lazy
the french smell
the germans are bossy
dianne abbot is a fat Hunt but i defend her right to make the statement she did
me? I am a short white opinionated english wanker
see how it works. doesnt hurt does it?
I am horrified and offended, I shall contact my no win no fee lawers immediately and find out how much I can sue for. Oh the agony.
The really stupid thing is to legislate against bad manners and make then illegal.
WHY are the meals subsidised?
How can it be justified when the cost of living and travel keeps going up for the ordinary public.
IT MUST STOP NOW!!!!!!!
+1
There are three reasons I’ve increased your taxes, plebs:
1. So I can piss-away £13.3billion every year on the EU.
2. So I can piss-away £12billion every year in foreign aid to countries with space programmes and nuclear weapons.
3. So my troughing MPs and I can get a really good lunch. The knowledge that it’s funded by your grotty wages makes the food taste even more yummy!
Toodle pip, what what!
WHY are the meals subsidised?
How can it be justified when the cost of living and travel keeps going up for the ordinary public.
+1.5
Ah that explains why Diane Abotts such a fat wanker,all those subsidised meals
I hope the fat fucking troughing bastards explode !
Ryce and peee!
Rιce and Ρeas
Oooooh look oooooh Guido sir did you see what he said sir he used the r and p words sir I heard him sir
Diane Abbots so fat she had to get baptised at sea world
Diane Abbott is so fat, when she hauls arse, she has to make two trips!
Diane Abbott is so fat, her blood type is “creme”!
Diane Abbott is so fat, she has her own post code!
Feel free to add more!
…. when God said let there be light, he asked her to move.
…. I took a picture of her Christmas 2001 and its still printing
….. not even Dora can explore her
………. she put on her lipstick with a paint-roller
……… she doesn’t need the internet; she’s already world wide
………… you have to take a train and two buses just to get on the her good side
Anybody tak like dat bout Diane Abbott– guilty. Punishment– her sit on he.
White folks love to eat pasta an fava beeeeans
There are more than just 646 MPs who eat here! Spare a thought for the staff, and remember that the building is operational 24 hours a day, and during the recesses when Members are nowhere to be seen. I wouldn’t claim the catering is a world class example of efficiency, but there needs to be some recognition of the extra costs involved in dealing with unpredictable, long hours for the House, not so much for the MPs who rarely eat here, but for all of us who work here to make the place run, most on very modest wages.
So what? What has that to do with the taxpayer subsidising the costs of the meals at the point of delivery?
I work in an office where the catering facilities amount to a couple of vending machines so get over yourself.
The building is operational 24 hours? There are lots of Junior doctors who can’t get any food out of hours what makes these muppets so special?
What they need is jamieoliver in that restaurant providing them food in line with the healthy school meals budget for which they should have to pay in full.
If Diane Abbot is deemed the embodiment of a “black person” I guess any negative statement aimed at Diane Abbot should be deemed as racist, in a similar way as any negative statement aimed at Jesus is anti Christian.
I am interested in what other members of the Black community have to say about the matter
Er..
Dont wash your dirty linen in public Sista. I will speak for the “Black community”, you will shut up and know your place. I will articulate the approved “Black community” view of the world not You. Got It !
Isn’t this subsidy a taxable benefit?
just a thought,wonder how many MP’s have a subsidised gym membership to burn off all those subsidised meals and if they do could they give directions to ‘shady’ Abbott
I thought Diane Abbott MP was a fat racist.
After hearing her explanation I now think that she is a lying, cynical, fat racist.
I’m hungry
C.P.S. prosecutor formally requests death by hanging for Chris Huhne and fellow defendants – @Reuters
!!!!!!!
Does anyone know how to introduce something exceedingly unpleasant, severely debilitating if not fatal, into the nosebags of these pigs?
A Bill
“Deliciously, as she was claiming to Sky News that her tweet has been taken “out of context” the phone rang.
My colleague Sophy Ridge has since discovered that on the phone was none other than Labour leader Ed Miliband, giving his shadow health minister a dressing down and ordering her to apologise immediately.”
http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:a4388854-dc2d-4c3e-afb2-2467305b8c7f
Twitter ye not !
She has been a very very silly lardy !
Wathist
I dont for one single moment believe that was a call from Ed Milliband. Spin again….
It WAS from me. (The thing is though, I thought I was calling Ballsy, and I must have messed up on the speed-calling feature…)
Actually I think it was more likely one of Eds advisors, telling Diane to shut up and finish the interview. They then leaked the “Ed giving her the dressing down” story to try and put a positive spin on it and make it look like Ed is in charge and dealing with the situation. Pathetic and transparent.
Vaz was just on Sky saying that because Abbott has worked against racism all her life this tweet can’t be considered racist.
Does that mean if I volunteer for R@pe Crisis I can then help myself to surprise sex with impunity?
Nothing like a spot of Vazoline to help a girl out of a tight situation.
A charcter ref from Vazoline?
hahahhahah
WTF was greasy Vaz doing granstanding outside parliament with the unfortunate parents of that Indian lad?
He’s not the Home Secretary, he’s not the MP for Salford, he’s not a member of the Govt. What a slimey toad he seems
Can’t be because he’s coloured.
Vaz is in a state of immense excitement, on the box defending Ms Abbot and standing there on TV with and representing the Indian family who have just arrived to collect body of son.
FYI
The BBC treat the Labour opposition frongt bench as the ‘go to’ politicians in all circumstances. It is as though they never lost the election.
Any issue requiring a P.O.V. then the BBC will take a Labour politician over a coalition one every time.
That’s how it works you see.
I hates white people as they don’t go to the wall for their children, although I do like their schools, fried chicken and champagne.
Diane, White people are no longer called White. White is a racist term. Please address us as Indigenous Europeans in future.
Give them a pair of shoes and 5000 calories a day and they start thinking that they are equal
The slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
Labour have now added another quality to their list – Acceptable Racism.
Well done Ed Miliband, you must be proud of what your party stands for!
Us mere mortals can consume a similar lunch fro £12 during January: http://dasteepsspeaks.blogspot.com/2012/01/perfect-expenseless-lunch.html
whats she got that I ain’t?
Camouflage, the right set of genitals and protective “air cover.”
MP’s Prayer on entering Parliament
” For what we are about to receive….”
I like Sophy Ridge. How old is she?
I is right cos I is black. You can’t critise black people. That’s racist. Right.
As simple as black v white ?
Un fucking believable.
I see that cvnt Ally Fogg is in early with his support.
Too old for me but everyone to his own.
Time for a hog roast
Plenty of back scratchings on that pig
Ed couldnt eat her as she wouldnt be k o sher
On a flight recently, sat next to a fat lad who only just managed to squeeze into the seat
When the drinks trolley came round he asked for a diet coke, just a little late I thought.
[See Moniker]
Call it a subsidy……I’d call it a bleedin’ liberty!
Forgive me if I’m wrong but I think you’ll find there are 650, not 646 MPs.
Ha ha guido just see the Ad for Groupon restaurant vouchers at the bottom of this article very apt in the circumstances.
Being a retired butler of the old school, I believe I have some expertise to offer.
The late Lord Curzon said that no gentleman ate soup at luncheon. I would go further and state that no gentleman eats ‘chips’ at any meal. Moreover, describing the comestibles in question as ‘hand-cut’ has no bearing on the matter, for how else would a kitchen maid cut them?
The eating of ‘chips’ confirms that many of today’s Members of Parliament are not gentlemen.
But that is only to be expected under the present Conservative prime minister, who is apparently the daughter of a provincial grocer.
Let them eat cack.
Your headline is a tad misleading !
It should read ” Cost To Taxpayers £13.73p
As the other £7.80p is also our money , given to these fat slimy fuckers in their
£170.23p per week food allowance
That means it’s gone up by £70 on Call me Dave’s watch !
Free money to buy taxpayer subsidised food ! = We get stung twice
How about a petition to stop subsidies for Parliamentary catering/hospitality?
They are all a bunch of fat and lazy freeloading bastards.