Guido was pleased to see The Sun had jumped on board his campaign against the MPs’ food and drinks subsidy yesterday. David Wooding informed his readers: “a typical meal — rib-eye steak with hand-cut chips and Béarnaise sauce — costs two quid — £7.80, less a taxpayers’ subsidy of £5.92“. Now where on earth could have got those convenient figures?
Invoice is in the post…
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?
Good!
I must say, lying in my private hospital bed, awaiting surgery, I am really missing the grub in Parliament, the food here is awful, and although it is free, I would rather let the taxpayer pay two quid for a steak béarnaise for me. Boaz.
Not you again!
He’s a regular hereabouts, BC!
Roll up. Roll up.
Hari, Hari, Hari.
HoC menu going chip
Your not one of those folks who dress up in an orange robe and tinkle little bells
Krishna or Johann?. Diet or diety?
Pull the other one.
Now where can I obtain some piano wire ?
Is this the start of a Murdoch comeback, he’s been far too quiet in letting these “lovely” people get away with the whitewash they call honesty .
May be Murdoch is “priming” Gove against Leveson.
Fawkes , how about mentioning some mad bint called justin greening , Transport Secretary.Thinks motorists should pay more for fuel.
What planet is the stupid c.unt on ?
Fuel is jolly expensive, isn’t it? And those high fuel príces are ruining our economy.
So what better plan than to increase fuel duty! Spiffing! That means I’ll be able to give even more money to India, so they can send even more men to the moon and buy even more Mirage jetfighters from France, what what!
And if high fuel costs are really getting you down, why not nip along to your stables, saddle-up one of your horses and ride that to work? Saves tyre-wear on your Bentley, too, what what. Don’t let anyone say I’m not in touch!
Toodle pip!
So – I’m confused. Does the MP actually pay £2.00 or £7.80 ?
No idea but the steaks are high!
What have they gone off
An MP pays zero – s/he’ll get it back on exes.
no you are not
If the rib comes FROM the MP, then – nothing. It’s on the House, + the entertainment value.
Even adding all these numbers together, I can’t remember the last time I got a steak and chips for under 20 quid. I must be going to the wrong transport cafes.
Even adding all these numbers tpgether, I cannot recall the last time I got a steak and chips fo under 20 quid. I must frequent ehe wrong greasy spoons!
Sorry for repetition – bloody software again
“Invoice is in the post…”
So’s your bloody cheque, Fawkes! And you know what they say about THAT…
Well done Guido.
Full of saturated fat as well.
They all should get a stiff letter from David Halpern.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164270/Loyalty-cards-25-million-shoppers-used-Government-snoop-eating-habits.html
OT- Anybody win the Friday Competition?
Me. Just haven’t been told yet.
Luck ewe. Now you have a horse at the gates as well
Lucky- I don’t know y
It is totally unhealthy. Obesity is a big problem in the UK. We will have to pay more than £6 per MP to treat them for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer.
I titally concurd wiv what your pontifikating bout my fiend.
Obesity is a big problem. Full stop.
Well you have only to look at the increasing girth of your average MP to see the effect of cheap, very subsidised meals, even Pickles looks fatter than whenhe entered Parliament
I personally see no problem with our MPs getting diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cáncer.
cáncer? Wossat? Like CANCER maybe?
Re previous thread
Two pence could be knocked off income tax for everyone if ‘morally repugnant’ tax dodgers paid up, says Treasury chief
Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that the burden of tax could be reduced for all, as long as the wealthy pay their fair share.
Now now! Fairs fair – and where there’s a Will there’s a way!
But no way have I a will to wave goodbye to all the dosh, – what would the govt spend it on anyway? Waste – more like.
No it’s safer left in my hands. Thanks all the same.
and don’t forget, MP’s receive another useful perk they keep very quiet about
FREE CAR PARKING AT AIRPORTS
rather useful if you travel a lot and I am not referring to travelling back to constituencies , its free wherever you go provided you are an MP.
What is the car allowance paid to MPs, I think a few years ago it was something like 65pence?
65p/mile
Gordon rang me this morning. He wants to patch up past times and suggested I ask RBS for a job running their banking section – oh wait a mo – they are a Bank! Strange that, – I never realised!
You didn’t really think it was really a string of bookmakers and casinos like Ladbrook’s
the meals are expensive when you have abbot, fatso watson and lardy precott wolfing down 4/5 at a time, sorry forgot claim back on exp
Your forgetting Fatty Pickles, he would make 2 Watsons
Yes, but he is better looking than fatso watson
Its normally £20 a time these days for rib eye and chips in a decent restaurant.
Its 310 in weatherspoons FFS !
Your underestimating the subsidy.
Your[sic] underestimating the inclusion of mad cow disease.
B.S.E. probably accounts for the reduction
Now that Mandelson sits in the Lords, does he get his meat, to which I understand he is quite partial, subsidised?
Does he like meat and two veg then
Handsome Brazilian loofer was about the shape of it, I understand.
To Guido repetition of his minor pieces is all water off a duck’s back .
Unfortunately for Penny Red -little falls off the back of a Laurie.
The poor can eat gruel under coalition rule while the MPs can gorge themselves.
the poor should be grateful
Do they sell gruel much these days? Haven’t seen any on the supermarket shelves.
Are they near the aisle that sells ready meals to all those poor, starving, obese people?
If bored by steak frites.
What else is on today’s menu?
Thet had confit duck a while ago.
I always assumed that ‘cost to MP: £7.80, subsidy: £5.93′ meant that the ticket price for the meal was £13.77, of which the MP pays £7.80.
If the MP only pays £7.80 – £5.93 = £1.87 for a posh restaurant meal you really ought to make that clearer because it’s a fucking scandal.
This is a non story because the phuckwit bercow says so
Better late than never to a story I suppose
These bastards are really just taking the piss out of us now arn’t they
Amazing what a night’s sleep can do for you…