Re: Alcohol (minimum price etc) : Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:53 am  

cod'ead wrote: On the subject of cheap booze: Eric Joyce is at it again The guy obviously has a serious problem, one that won't be helped by easy access to not just cheap booze but taxpayer-funded cheap booze. After his previous drunken assault he should've been put on Parliament's equivalent to Pubwatch and banned from all ares serving alcogol. In another "you couldn't make it up" story: In an effort to reduce the costs of refreshments in the House of Lords, it is proposed to reduce the pay of waiters rather than pay full whack for the (again) taxpayer-subsidised food & booze. None of them do themselves any favours do they, its not like they haven't heard all of the complaints that "they are out of touch with the real world".

cod'ead wrote: On the subject of cheap booze: Eric Joyce is at it again The guy obviously has a serious problem, one that won't be helped by easy access to not just cheap booze but taxpayer-funded cheap booze. After his previous drunken assault he should've been put on Parliament's equivalent to Pubwatch and banned from all ares serving alcogol. In another "you couldn't make it up" story: In an effort to reduce the costs of refreshments in the House of Lords, it is proposed to reduce the pay of waiters rather than pay full whack for the (again) taxpayer-subsidised food & booze. None of them do themselves any favours do they, its not like they haven't heard all of the complaints that "they are out of touch with the real world".

Re: Alcohol (minimum price etc) : Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:38 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

None of them do themselves any favours do they, its not like they haven't heard all of the complaints that "they are out of touch with the real world".

The problem being: even if they are voted out, they will be replaced by the equally out-of-touch

Re: Alcohol (minimum price etc) : Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:29 am  

cod'ead wrote:

On the subject of cheap booze:

... and banned from all ares serving alcogol.

...

Shurely shome mishtake? Or maybe you need to take more water with it?