If the Tories win the next general election, it seems they will knock subsidised food and drink for members of parliament on the head.
That's shot RedNev's fox!
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009
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A bit of a CV. Tandleman is a veteran beer lover, local CAMRA Chairman and activist, beer writer, beer reviewer and pursuer of all things good in beer. He lives in the North West of England and London. Despite his CAMRA membership, he does not limit himself to cask conditioned beer, though he believes that cask conditioning, when done correctly and appropriately, brings a quality to beer that is hard to equal by any other kind of presentation. He is a strong supporter of Northern methods of beer dispense and avidly detests poorly presented beer and dislikes pasteurisation. He regularly visits Germany, has conducted corporate British and German beer tastings for CAMRA at the Great British Beer Festival where he has worked for years on Biere Sans Frontieres and was Deputy Organiser at CAMRA's very successful National Winter Ales Festival in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival from 2013 to date. He admires good brewers wherever they are and has travelled extensively in pursuit of good beer to drink. He also judges beer at both the International Beer Challenge and the World Beer Awards.
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8 comments:
A shame. When I worked for an MP I used to drink in Bellamy's, mainly. I think it was about half of the price of a normal pub. A good place to start a Friday night.
Who's "Red Nev"? Is this a political story I've missed?
Just another chippy Northerner!
I've only done 3 or 4 posts on my blog and had a couple of letters printed in the local papers on this matter. Surely you're not implying I'm obsessed?
Not when you put it like that!
The cheap booze has always been primarily for the benefit of Labour MPs of working class backgrounds from the North. They're the ones who crowd out the bars and got sozzled all day and night, creating an atmos something like a working men's club (and yes, I have visited a working men's club). In my own experience, Tory MPs are rarely seen in the subsidised bars.
Are there actually any working class MPs any more? Not many horny handed sons of toil now I'd suggest and with the hair shirt mentality now pervasive, fewer still in the future.
Not only is RedNev's fox shot, but if what you say is so, then no wonder it's the Tories proposing to abolish it - it won't affect them, therefore it's a true Tory policy. The converse is consequently true too - you can see why Labour didn't lead the way. Dirty business politics.
PS I am having a look round there a week on Monday. Any cheap beer I wonder?
I'm not persuaded by the argument the subsidies are for Labour MPs, seeing that all MPs receive the same basic salary of £64,766 (plus expenses and subsidies, of course). On that money, why would Labour MPs need subsidies?
I don't think subsidised bars in Parliament are for the MPs, really, although they do help the staff who often work long doubt hours without being rewarded. The allowance for staff isn't very big, I recall, and if a member employs more than two people there just isn't enough to go around. It's easy to get whipped into a frenzy by the Telegraph and pure envy, but the reality's quite different.
Still pleased to see Alan Duncan get the boot, though. He was a bit of a tosser in my experience.
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