The House of Commons bar and restaurant subsidy has been cut by a meagre £600,000. That means the new total coughed up by the taxpayer to allow MPs a huge discount on their food and drink stands at £5.2 million. 20% cuts to the defence budget but a reduction of just 10% when it comes to your money paying for their booze.
Leaves a sour taste…
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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.”
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
Thanks God it is not as bad as this persons bill > http://kebabtime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/no-such-thing-as-free-lunch.html
you think that s dear ??!!
you ain t seen nuthin till you take a butcher s at some of the city boys prandial expenses .
20 grand a sitting
and that s BEFORE going on to a ” gentleman s ” club
Hey he obviously had a bottle of Mouton Rothchild 1985 with his cheap meal.
That Pirates of the Caribbean star spent £14000+ on wine in a 2 person sitting some years ago. But there again he works for this money. Our Westminster MP troughers are all on UK Public Benefits.
ConLibLab mp, “So what peasants”
I cannot believe that our food and drink subsidy has been cut by 10%, it is a disgrace and I will be making a formal complaint. Boaz.
I am saving the taxpayer money but not using this subsidy
I’m using yours.
MPs should stay in government establishments while in London unless they commute which should be at their own cost. MPs should join the real world.
Are they allowed to claim for this heavily subsidised drink and food? Do they claim as they are ‘entertaining’?
Me thinks a fresh eruption in the media will be coming.
Sweet for them and Sour for us.
They should ALL be on iron rations until they sort out the economy.
The Bearnaise sauce is made with real bears.
The grapes used in making the Châteauneuf-du-Pape were trampled by real popes.
The grapes used in making the Châteauneuf-du-Pape were trampled by real popes.
Hope they washed their feet first.
Does His Excellency the French President have anything to do with Hollandaise sauce mayhap?
When our next charity fundraiser takes place raising money for desert boots for our troops heading out to fight Blair & Camerons vanity war in Afghanistan I will be sure to mention this MPs food & drink subsidy to all attendees.
Watch this and weep for the brave men being sent on the mission from hell against overwhelming odds…some didn’t return inc their officer who led them…..the British Army at its finest !!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wk0j9/Our_War_Series_2_Into_the_Hornets_Nest/
I only ever have the baby food.
Hope they all get poisoned.
Oi! I can’t be photographed going for a quick snack at McDonald’s, you know they’ll take the mickey outta me as I’m stuffing fourteen Big Macs down my gullet! And that goes for Diane Abbott, Tom Watson, and Eric Pickles too! We do have our dignity, you know! Can’t you just leave us in p*eace to enjoy our dirt-fookin’-cheap meals at Westminster?
Every time I see that image I want to nip to a restaurant and get a nice steak and chips…but at 20 stone I am liable to have a heart attack just walking there.
Why not ask if they deliver?
Not steak and chips again?
Jamie Oliver is going to do his nut.
that’ll be around 8000pa per head, not enough to keep them in the way they expect.
MPs. The biggest benefit scroungers of all.
£5.2 million divided by 650 MPs is £8000 quid a year each. Bloody hell no wonder they’re fat bastards.
£8k each. Parasites. Is it a taxable benefit? and if not why not?
They class them as expenses not allowances so they are not taxed, which of course they should be
Presumably the dishonourables have a win double. Subsidised nosh’n booze which goes down as expenses on their tax returns+parliamentary expenses…a win treble.