To think taxpayers should not be subsidising beer in the House of Commons?

[AskBasil]

FFS?

Why?

Why the fuck do MP's think they have the right to have their boozing subsidised by the rest of us?

What possible reason can there be, for this to be presented as something taxpayers should be spending scarce resources on?

I thought they had stopped all this. Just heard on Broadcasting House that this is still going on.

YAsooooooNBU!

If this were a thread about benefit claimants, I'd guarantee that there would be quadruple the no of posts by now. Divide and rule!

Let them keep their cheap booze, provided they agree to a live video feed, 24 hours a day, in a semi-scripted format like Geordie Shore or The Valleys.

I would gladly subsidise their drink if it meant that I could watch Harriet Harman and Michael Fabricant having a cat fight whilst Nigel Farage MCs a club night featuring back benchers stripping.

Yanbu. I've signed the petition.

Just think about the damage they would cause if they were sober Ploppy!! YNBU OP.

How it it this is allowed?!

Yanbu
One rule for them and another rule for the commoners they rule

We shouldn't be subsidising anything in the HoC, not restaurants or beverages or all the other freebies. No possible justification for it, other than they make the rules so that of course, it benefits them.
They are completely disassociated from the majority of the population.
The last thing that made me snort was defrauding £45,000 in expenses, and then being told by a panel of chums to pay back just over £5,000. Then the surprise that the general public were cross and unsympathetic at the penalty.

The last thing that made me snort was defrauding £45,000 in expenses, and then being told by a panel of chums to pay back just over £5,000. Then the surprise that the general public were cross and unsympathetic at the penalty.

Not only the surprise, but the general feeling that the nasty newspapers were being really mean and unsporting to her by writing it down and telling everybody!! Poor girl.

YANBU they are taking the piss! I've signed the petition and posted on Facebook.