Hungry for Taxes: Compare and Contrast Today’s Menus
Hungry? Well have a look at what our Honourable Members are lunching on today in their private dining room:
Lunch Thursday 12 January 2012
STARTERS
Artichokes, ratatouille and olives with basil dressing £2.05 (£1.55)
Braised pork belly with black pudding bonbon, apple salad £2.70 (£2.05)
Halibut and soft boiled quail egg with carrot dressing (wf) £4.15 (£3.15)MAINS
Rib eye steak with hand cut chips and béarnaise sauce £7.80 (£5.92)
Haddock and leek fish cake with tomato and dill cream £6.75 (£5.13)
Chickpea and lentil curry with red onion fritter £6.75 (£5.13)PUDDINGS & CHEESE
Chocolate and orange torte £2.05 (£1.56)
Fresh fruit salad (wf h v) £2.05 (£1.56)
Home-made ice creams and sorbets (v) £2.05 (£1.56)
Fine cheese with biscuits – ask for today’s selection £3.10 (£2.35)
Then compare the cost of the extra taxpayer subsidy (highlighted in red) to what you spent on your own lunch today. And the rip-off doesn’t stop there. Now compare the above menu to the other prices that are being offered to mere members of the public, in the very same building, right now:
MAINS
Rump of lamb with creamed white beans, spinach and shallots £15.85
Corn fed chicken with wild mushrooms and puy lentils (wf) £13.55
Whole grilled plaice with lemon and caper butter, vegetables £12.25
Smoked haddock and leek fish cake with tomato and dill cream £12.25
Potato and halloumi parcel with sauté bok choi, pepper sauce £10.45
Basil tofu and roasted vegetables with herb sauce £10.45
One price for them, one for us. Oink oink…
UPDATE: Meanwhile in another part of town, another taxpayer funded lunch. Here’s what we paid 90p to provide at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital:
Who do you think is more deserving of a subsidy?
Am I first?
You win a prize . . . but no pizza
Of course, now that all of the MPs have been made aware of this outrageous inequality and flagrant example of greedy excess and profiting at others’ expense, we can expect them all to demand action.
I would hope MPs themselves now back an urgent move to equalise prices to those offered to the general public at the HoC.
It would be beyond hypocrital for them to do otherwise.
The greedy bastards should get 90p meals like those in hospital.
The greedy trout ing self serving fucking twats
Your prize is a Happy Meal from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital enjoy and get well soon
Right.
We need names & who is eating what then getting the taxpayer to fund it.
Unbelievable that this lot also get several hundred quid a month food allowance on top of their extravagant expenses.
How about swapping the HoC caterers with the Chelsea & Westminster hospital’s caterers for a month.
Let’s see what patients and MPs think about that.
I’d rather have the patients debating policy and the MPs kept in quarantine.
or how’sabout giving BOTH the fine fare of Little chef ??,
& see who’s happier !.
PLUS saving a number of jobbies.
If poor patients in hospital don’t like the food on offer, they can always contact my chums at Wonga.com and borrow some money to buy better food.
Only 4214% interest, bargain!
Lunch ?
Thith ith outwageouth. Thith ith the kweninolololology of politics. I promith to set up a commithion headed by our hero Harriet to enthure that it ith sthtopped immediathely after I thecure my theat in the European Commithion.
JESUS FUCKING Christ how many times do i have to say
NEVER talk OUT of YOUR arse !! (we can do that).
Can I suggest that MPs get those meals because “they are worth it” the usual phrase wheeled out to justify big cheeses getting luxurious meals at discount prices, or any thing else for that matter.
Except they ain’t by a long way…big cheeses.
The silence from the festering puss in Westminster speaks volumes.
Aah the blue vein of corruption !
No. The phrase that all Politicians use on a regular basis when they are asking us to accept something that is painful for the public is “it’s the right thing to do”.
Therefore they would say that “The Restaurant is subsidised because it’s right thing to do.”
And do they get a subsidised gym to run that lot off if tell Eric
yes, they do http://www.jubileehalltrust.org/westminster/
Your ex-wife says you always come first!
This is a abosulte disgrace.
subsidiesd lunch, houses,pensions etc
something a normal working class taxpayer could only dream about.
If you work in a palace…
Perhaps more down-to-earth premises are needed.
What are the deliverables? From an MP.
If there is to be a perk for being an MP then a subsidised canteen for those that create the laws of the land is acceptable. It’s just a pity that the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the quality of the MP’s. Not even I expect this canteen to be serving school dinner slops.
“create the laws of the land”
You’re having a piss take, the commons is a rubber stamp local authority. 30,000+ new laws from Brussels in the last ten ye@rs, the HOC is a sick joke.
It has been for years its had no real power since the mid 90s as more went East to the EU Peoples Republic. Cameron is the dog end of a line of PMs who have overseen the dissolution of Britain. Once the Scottish delcare UDI that’s it we’ll just become an adminstrative region of Brussels.
Strangely the only thing that looks like food on the plate of that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital meal is the Brussel sprouts they must have been grown local. Get our TitGypsy MPs to eat this muck for a week and then see how they feel.
For those of you that think that I have spent all my political life troughing and shagging at taxpayer’s expense, well, as part of my rehabilitation strategy I have written a letter and placed it on my website to demonstrate that I am a hardworking MP.
http://www.mikehancock.co.uk/news/652/24/Bovine-TB-and-Badger-Control/
The letter is a link on the page. I hope this dispels those false rumour mongers, who have been saying that I am uneducated and illiterate. The letter is an example of beautiful grammatical english.
Also as part of my rehabilitation I am having the same photo on my handsome self placed in the local Portsmouth News, which is in my pocket, to show my constituents how hard I am working. Boaz.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/mike_hancock_backs_school_it_competition_1_3400259
You tight fisted twat. The meal you bought me, when you were trying to seduce me, in the House of Commons, was subsidised.
Good old Mikey – more concerned with badgers (and beaver?) than with the diffficulties of his constituents. Can’t be much in the way of backhanders there Handy… better to stick with the Planning Permissions and the Northern Quarter proposal.
…beautiful grammatical “english” ??
If you say so…
What would happen if no laws were passed. i.e no more laws.
Cut the mp’s working hours and pay by half… And will anyone notice?
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Doubt it.
I am, do I win a free (tax payer subsidised) steak and chips?
Stop it! Billy will sulk.
Billy’s got to make do with a cheese sarnie no wonder he is envious
Anthony Worrel Thompson had no comment to make on todays announcement of a fall in sales at Tesco
Was he too cheesed off about it to say anything?
All he does is wine, wine, wine, he never shuts up!
ROFLMFHO twice………a gem….
AWT should be allowed to eat humble pie and then put the pasta behind him.
To provide better value for taxpayers money they should contract out MP’s Jobs to Latvians and keep the current catering staff.
No wonder they’re all fat bastards!
Gideon’s waist line seems to be expanding
Its a bloody disgrace and I’m very glad that order-order has highlighted this outrage.
Rib eye steak with hand cut chips and béarnaise sauce AGAIN !! in the same week! What are catering playing at!
*chortle*
Maybe its a cunning menu plan to try to get you to vote on a private members bill during lunch time.
Mornington Crescent!
Excellent.
no 10?
Absolutely!
A duck confit would have gone down well today.
I am sure the HoC cellar has somethind that would wash that down nicely.
Lacking a taxpayer subsidy, I had the last of the Christmas turkey for lunch.
What do (wf) and (wf h v) mean?
Wheat (gluten) free, halal, vegetarian?
ok, i’ll bite (no pun intended) and what is halal – apart from lalah backwards?
Have you just arrived from the 19th Century?
halal is a torturous painful way to butcher an animal, favoured by p43do prophet followers.
Rather than being stunned and humanely despatched,the animal has it’s throat cut and the blood is drained away whilst facing Mecca. The slaughter has to be performed by a Muslim.
Most supermarket meat is slaughtered by this method now- which is deeply disturbing. Luckily I have a great butcher in my area.
I use my Foxit to open the little darlings up.
It’s the Islamic version of kosher, now do you understand
Schechita, actually.
Here it is in all it’s wonder, think about it when you pop out to your local takaway.
Celebrate diversity and all that.
I think the US Marine Corp knows how to deal with these chaps.
Fuck me. Am I glad I’m a veggie.
From the vid and my basic knowledge of Schechita there appear to things being done there which wouldn’t happen in a well run kosher slaughterhouse. Firstly in shechita it is forbidden or at the very least bad practice to kill an animal in the presence of another, secondly it looks to me as if the killing cut on the sheep is not sufficient to bring about unconciousness quickly.
To be effective and humane a venous and arterial cut for despatch purposes should not only cut the blood vessels but must be done in such a way so that there is an immediate blood pressure loss from the head (therefore bringing about complete insensibility) but also to cut in a way that precludes vessels inadertently joining and threfore sustaining bloodpressure in the head and prolonging pain.
The schecting (butchering) of cattle is something that is more specialised than most types of Schechita due to particular complexity of the cow anatomy. Judging by the position of the cow in the stall it looks very likely that the cow may have aspirated blood which is something that Schechita avoids due to the position of the head during Schechita.
Shechita takes great care to ensure animal welfare from the handling of the animals before slaughter and during slaughter.
BTW I’m not a Rabbi or any sort of Schechita expert it’s just that I’m fleeing from the crap hole that the Labour Party have made London and going to more rural climbs where unfortunately I’m going to have to kill my own home reared poultry and have been studying how it’s done.
It’s ‘climes’ actually; “climbs” is what you do to hills, ladders and stairs. Happy Yontoff.
This is all boring shite Guido – get us some real stuff
It’s G’s Product Placement Strategy – my MAC’s currently showing a PIZZA for £9.99 delivered !!
boiled beef and carrots?
Guido would like to trough there, must be anoying to have to go in the them resturant and not in the us one
Let them eat pies.
You know that advert for a miracle diet above leave a comment?
That’s really aimed at you.
Can’t see the advert over the mountain of hand cut chips, pal.
There must be more pies available now the but depleted in the Lords troughs
You see that fat bastard? That’s you, that is
Lunch is for poofs, mate.
Never spoil a good meal with food – what?
Ay, its dinner where I come from, but they are starting to use that southern “lunch” more & more
Boring!
Guido: Can we please have info on the booze subsidy we have to pay for this House of Pimps ? TY
Guido, what is the length of this “lunch” time 1/2 hour or 1 hour if they have all the courses 30 mins too short, might just do it in 1 hour, it’s no wonder they look so bloated and back in the house pulling faces as if there is a nasty smell coming from somewhere
Opening hours
Service Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Lunch – Waiter Service 12.30-14.30 12.30-14.30 12.30-14.30 12.30-14.30 12.30-14.30
Dinner – Waiter Service 18.30-21.30 18.30-21.30 18.30-21.30 CLOSED CLOSED
But what’s the idea of trying to pass off Corn fed chicken as something special? Of course they are corn fed, it’s the cheapest way of feeding them but at least my chickens get to root around on real grass and eat worms and grubs and other creepy crawlies.
Guido – yeah, we get it.
There are far bigger fish to fry (sorry for the pun) than a subsidised canteen in the House of Commons.
Silver service is not, I repeat not, Canteen. TWAT
It was the p-ea what done it
Silver service a posh canteen where the food comes to them and not them line up for food
As a firm believer in privilege, what’s the Beef Wellington? As a firm believer in realpolitik, dump all subsidies, pay them enough and stop providing ammunition to those who criticise them for trivial misdemeanours thereby distracting attention from their high crimes.
Surely they would argue that we could not pay them enough for what they do, shouting and bawling at each other sounds like the reception a bad comedian used to get at the Glasgow Empire
The view of most of us hereabouts, I suspect, is that they get paid quite enough already. Let them buy their own [unsubsidised] nosh like the rest of us have to do. The “food allowance” is an outrageous con, amount to plain theft of public funds, and should be stopped immediately. The best any of us normal folks might get is a few quid subsistence for being away from the office for a day or two to cover the extra we have to pay for not being at home. All only reimbursed against original receipts too.
Perhaps we should all put our heads together to come up with other as yet unthought of methods of extracting cash from the public coffers just to help those poor underpaid civil/public servants (which is all MPs are really) to help make ends meet.
Lunch? fucking Lunch?
It’s breakfast, dinner and supper in the real world.
Southern Poofs
It’s dinner, dinner and dinner in my house.
Like one continuous trough
Midlands nancy boy. Oop north it’s breakfast, dinner and a knife-and-fork tea on Sundays.
Ay, lad a lot of southern nancy talk. It was approaching my dinner time in my office and I said to one of the Girls “I’m goig to dinner now” the sub manager overheard me and piped up, “We call it lunch” , after he had gone one of the lasses said to me ” I don’t care what he calls it I still call it dinner”
Do they pay BIK on their grub, like us oiks?
Time to End the disastrous NHS, and also end subsidies for MPs.
+++ CARTEL ALERT +++
More (and distinctly different) energy companies to follow EDF’s lead and cut prices by 5% or so.
What a surprise!
Imagine how much more that would be if they weren’t sponsoring the Olympics
Imagine how much less we’d be paying if we weren’t subsidising bloody useless bird-mincers and paying for middle-class solar panels?
Only gas, electricity prices stay the same, Brit Gas cut the electric but not the gas
For goodness Motty Botty get up to speed
Well it’s odd to suggest that the patients are more deserving but your point stands.
… just what is that goo?!
It resembles something that has already passed through the digestive system of a cat…
WTF is it, though?
chips (very few) sorry that’s all I recognise
WTF is that white stuff?
SOOOOO appetising when you’re ill.
Saw that TV chef bloke trying to revive “frozen fried egg” in Scarborough hospital the other week!
Frozen fried egg – I ask you!
Still. All in it together eh?
Can we get Brake Bros. to do HoP catering instead? Out to competitive tender and all that?
MPs should be given a roll of clingfilm at the beginning of each Parliament and told to bring in their own sandwiches. No doubt they have unpaid interns who can carry them for them.
Agreed, except they can buy their own bloody cling film. They can afford it.
(Better yet, let the bastards eat dried out sarnies and hope one of them chokes.)
If the little darlings choke they would not be able to shout and scream at each other, good idea!
(Also answering 43 and 44)
I’ve seen that white stuff up close on a hospital visit. They said it was turkey fricassé. I would guess it’s made of MRM — ‘mechanically recovered meat’ from turkey carcases, got with solvents and revolving wire brushes.
Excellent let’s have more of the same! Specifics, contrast and compare, sharp focus!
Disgusting. I don’t think this issue is boring at all. Please keep at it until it attracts mainstream attention. The comparison with what we feed people in hospital, schools and the old folks is what really gets me incensed. We can’t afford a subsidised meals program (like meals on wheels) for poor and lonely old people, but we can afford to buy mps steaks. Should be ashamed.
You might like to ask the people who do the meal runs for homeless people how much they spend per person.
There is a Christian Kitchen in Walthamstow which has recently had to raise £20k to buy a replacement for its van because the old one could not meet an EU emissions directive.
Compare and contrast you are correct there. It’s not just charities who are suffering from the LEZ. I know of 2 40+ year old family haulage companies who have had to shut down. The EU emissions levels are a fucking scandal. Also a very bit earner for TFL as you have to have the multithousand pound emissions filter fitted by a TFL approved garage.
I think the house of commons meals should be privatised, you know the nutritional meals that old folks and hospitals get. The meals on wheels for oaps ended 3/4 years ago in my neck of the woods, they looked ok at the start of the run, but the last of the run……..
Do they have similar subsidised meals in the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments?
Don’t mention Stormont. Then things will get really ugly.
I suspect the attendance records of NIs double jobbing MPs and MLAs has a lot to do with the subsidised menu fare on offer at Westminster and Stormont on a daily basis.
Yes.
Subsidised by the English.
Fuck off Fawkes, we need our calories, just pay up proles.
This is all the more disgusting when you know that since the change to PAYD (Pay As You Dine) in the Armed Forces (or “Pay as You Starve”, as it’s more commonly know) and end of subsidised Messing, the quality and quantity of the food served to our service personnel has declined to the point of being a disgrace. Most of those living in barracks no longer attend meals as the food served (no longer by skilled Army Chefs but by minimum-wage slop-slingers employed by the lowest-bidding conrtractor) is both piss-poor and expensive to boot. They tend to live on pot-noodles prepared in their rooms, and Take-Away pizzas. Meanwhile, it’s reassuring to know that our elected representatives are doing very nicely indeed thank you very much!
I’d forgotten how tasty sprouts are.
Especially garnished with camel sperm.
It’s listed as ‘Essence of Camel’ on the menu.
Billy gets everywhere should be caramel
This is becoming dull. I’m fed up
I’ll have a double portion of everything !
Why Guido keeps harping on the “MP’s Subsidised Meals” story.
We have just obtained footage from the canteen inside the Order-order.com Building:
(Is it just me, or did Terry Jones resemble Gordon Brown back then?)
So Guido would rather the taxpayer subsidised the meals of 1m patients instead of 650 MPs. Who’s paying for it?
Just because the menu sounds like michelin-star fare, doesn’t mean that it tastes that good, a bit like on ‘Come Dine With Me’ where the propaganda is invariably misleading. Taste-wise it could turn out to be the culinary equivalent of ‘ all fur coat and no Knickers’. No doubt yhe proof will be in the pudding.
Let them eat pasta, just like me!
Just because the menu sounds like michelin-star fare, doesn’t mean that it tastes that good, a bit like on ‘Come Dine With Me’ where the propaganda is invariably misleading. Taste-wise it could turn out to be the culinary equivalent of ‘ all fur coat and no Knickers’. No doubt the proof will be in the pudding.
I think Guido’s on the money here….. keep pushing and perhaps someone will have the spine to pick up and run with it to a larger audience. Tired of ‘we’re all in it together’ when some are more ‘in it’ than others.
Well done Guido — keep publishing the troughers’ menu and prices day after day after day after day — until this outrage is stopped.
After that attention can switch to their individual pension contributions and “entitlements”.
The smell from the House of Commons is worse now than the “Great Stink” from the Thames prior the Victorian sewage works.
It’s alright for some, the rest of us have to go without just to pay the taxes which subsidise MPs’ bars and canteens. I made do with just a Cornish pastie in my lunchbox today. The cost? 39p from the Supermarket’s reduced section yesterday evening.
couple of grand a day for Mps is nothing compared to the 100s of billions we gave to bailout banks, but of course guido is too economically retarded to care
These bastards are bloody spoon fed all the time. Shut the restaurant and open a Mcdonalds, if they collect the vouchers in the Daily Star they can have a happy meal for one on a saturday for nothing.
If I get served food like that shown in the NHS food picture, in my upcoming stay in hospital I shall complain vociferously.
It’s the rich what gets the pleasure and the poor taxpayer what pays!
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