To remind you that we subsidise MP meals?

[meow1989]

And to highlight this petition to stop it?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-mps-entitlement-to-free-work-meals

Fab stuff guys, I figured that this didn't need an opening post!

I just looked up MPs wages.

www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-costs/mps-pay-and-pensions/

How can they possibly afford food on these wages?

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Poor MPs having to work late. The hungry kids dont know how lucky they are...

House of Commons catering received £4.6m subsidy last year, compared with £2.6m in 2018/19.

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they can go to bed hungry, like the kids they denied food subsadaries to. or more likely the kids' mothers. surely they can prepare ahead and bring a packed lunch... hypocrites. (well those that voted against giving kids food vouchers)

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My MP is the wealthiest landowner in the county and voted against, what an utter disgrace

It’s not uncommon to have a works canteen subsidised.

Yeo this is disgusting.

Thanks for this. Have signed, though my faith in democracy is at an all time low and suspect they will carry on regardless like they do with everything else

Absolutely fucking ridiculous. I'd love a sirloin for £11. Presumably they all live in a completely different reality to the rest of us.

@CraftyGin

It’s not uncommon to have a works canteen subsidised.

funny

CraftyGin - it is unusual in the public sector.

I've worked in the nhs around the UK and mostly can't get hold of any food during my shifts and it's vastly overpriced if I can get to the tiny outpost of boots/whsmith or whatever... I take everything with me (on my bike because the ridiculous parking charges mean I can't drive, even when I finish at 1 am and have to put my personal safety at risk in the dark). I have to take a tea bag, thermos of milk and any cutlery or containers I need because we are given NOTHING at all, not even for a hot drink. We work 12 hour shifts night and day, and we GRAFT.

People who are higher rate tax payers, with living costs and travel costs reimbursed do not also need a subsidised, late opening canteen of they deem every other public sector employee non worthy and are happy for small children to be hungry. I hate them all.

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@CraftyGin

It’s not uncommon to have a works canteen subsidised.

I work in the public sector. We don't even have so much as a water cooler or a kettle "because public money shouldn't be used for things like that"

Therefore I resent what the MPs have.

Who the hell thinks you are being unreasonable? And why do people who vote in the minority very rarely put their hand up and admit it and give their reasoning?

As pp have said, it is unusual in the public sector. My understanding, though please correct me if wrong, is that as well as subsidised food, they can also claim back what they've have paid for the lunch.

I am angry today, angrier than usual at Parliament. My mp is a good egg but even he claims for £5000 train ticket a year (we are within an hour of london), how is that fair when NHS workers (and other sectors) on 25% of his wage have to pay for parking? How is it fair that an mp in a county over claims £2500 a month for a flat in London when he is a 45 minute commute by train away from Parliament?

And now they're taking food from vulnerable children, or as another poster said, their parents at least, whilst gorging on steak. Its painful.

It’s frankly immoral that their meals are subsidised. Yet another little perk , I wonder what others there are?
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@meow1989 no they can't claim back their lunch time n expenses.

The link in the petition quotes Theresa May as living rent-free at No 10.

Is the petition still current?

When one of the tabloids posted their menus compared to the children's meals they had just voted against, it was a sign of what pretentious idiots those MP's are.

Signed and shared. My ds is NHS staff and there is no longer a staff canteen in the hospital just a Costa. No way he could afford to eat there every day - even if he had time for a lunch break which he doesn’t.