Is this to your taste sir

[jaysay]

Commons ¿food-taster¿ will cost taxpayers £500 a day | Mail Online

Nice work if you can get it, £500 a day to taste food in the House of Commons

[cashman]

may be n idea to have n alcohol taster also, some good stuff in the bar n i'm sure the research team would assist fer less than £500 a day, thus saving the taxpayer money.

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by cashman

may be n idea to have n alcohol taster also, some good stuff in the bar n i'm sure the research team would assist fer less than £500 a day, thus saving the taxpayer money.

Well I for one am not prepared to take a drop in money for anyone.

[MargaretR]

Food tasters were traditionally used by kings and emperors to detect poison.
Politicians have become paranoic? - maybe rightly so

We live in 'revolutionary times' - when anything that can happen, likely will.

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Food tasters were traditionally used by kings and emperors to detect poison.
Politicians have become paranoic? - maybe rightly so

We live in 'revolutionary times' - when anything that can happen, likely will.

From reading the article looks like there are rumblings of revolution in Parliment.. MP's are up in arms about being charged £1.90 for a bacon buttie and the increase of the "all you can eat" meal to £15... mind you if your'e in the queue behind Eric Pickles there's problably nowt left anyway!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

From reading the article looks like there are rumblings of revolution in Parliment.. MP's are up in arms about being charged £1.90 for a bacon buttie and the increase of the "all you can eat" meal to £15... mind you if your'e in the queue behind Eric Pickles there's problably nowt left anyway!

Must have been totally horrendous when two jags was around

[yerself]

Originally Posted by Mancie

mind you if your'e in the queue behind Eric Pickles there's problably nowt left anyway!

Originally Posted by jaysay

Must have been totally horrendous when two jags was around

Can you imagine what it might have been like if PB had achieved his ambition? Pickles, PB and fatty Soames first three in the queue.

[Benipete]

Of course now that judges are removing MP's from office that tell lies It won't be much of a problem in the short term.

Councilors beware.The hand that has written moves on.

[Ken Moss]

We're no better in Hyndburn.

Over £13k on lunchtime buffets for the councillors over the past five years, plus a few extra thousand on special events, all to one business. Someone up for election in Baxenden, I think.....

I think we councillors could stand to make our own butties like the rest of the country, couldn't we?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by yerself

Can you imagine what it might have been like if PB had achieved his ambition? Pickles, PB and fatty Soames first three in the queue.

At least we'd know he wouldn't be starving himself to death, unable to get his hands on an affordable hot dog.

"Anybody who can find a meal for £10 in London should write a tourist guide"

'Surely you wouldn’t expect the leader to camp out in a tent in Hyde Park?"
Council makes a meal of rises - Accrington Observer

Though he would have been much happier camping in St.James Park, as it's much nearer to parliament.

Still, no used crying over spilt milk, or opportunities lost, now.

He's had my tourist guide to good value eating houses, I'm not doing the Rindy Roo guide to affordable accommodation in London...just yet.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

We're no better in Hyndburn.

Over £13k on lunchtime buffets for the councillors over the past five years, plus a few extra thousand on special events, all to one business. Someone up for election in Baxenden, I think.....

I think we councillors could stand to make our own butties like the rest of the country, couldn't we?

Perhaps significant savings could be made, and cuts, if they didn't take the crusts off, and stopped cutting the sandwiches into dainty little triangles?

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by garinda

Perhaps significant savings could be made, and cuts, if they didn't take the crusts off, and stopped cutting the sandwiches into dainty little triangles?

We don't do that anymore. Health and Safety were right onto that a few years ago when they realised how sharp the implement would have to be to cut off the crusts.

The Hyndburn Labour view of sorting out your own butties like the rest of the country might jar badly with those who still want cucumber sandwiches and tea on the lawn but how many private sector companies lay on a spread for their staff?

Wake up, Conservatives.

[garinda]

Is there a job going for someone to chew up the food for them first, and then feed it to them, like a mummy bird does for her little dickie birds?

S'ok, scrub that.

My breakfast's just come back up.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

We're no better in Hyndburn.

Over £13k on lunchtime buffets for the councillors over the past five years, plus a few extra thousand on special events, all to one business. Someone up for election in Baxenden, I think.....

I think we councillors could stand to make our own butties like the rest of the country, couldn't we?

It maybe an idea if you looked into council printing cost over the last 5 years too

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by jaysay

It maybe an idea if you looked into council printing cost over the last 5 years too

That's the Peter in you talking, particularly as two days after my FOI request about Terry Hurn (see Baxenden by-election) making a very tidy profit out of HBC feedings its councillors he tried to have yet another stab at Graham Jones by bringing Dalton's into it.

There's a bit of a difference between a local printer running off copies of council literature for them and councillors stuffing their faces on free butties.

You'll forgive me for thinking that the former is fairly essential and the latter is us simply getting our trotters in the trough at the taxpayers' expense.