Lobby Lushes Get Blanko on The Taxpayer Too!
Is it any wonder that Guido's four year campaign against politicians with their snouts in the trough got until recently so little traction in the media? Because the Lobby itself is full of expense fiddling drunks who rarely pay for their own drinks. The Billy Blanko parody of a Lobby hack is based on a composite of a few well known hacks. Guido has remarked on the drunken laziness of the Lobby many times but it is really a private affair between them and their Big Media shareholders. The BBC is different since law abiding television owners have no choice and are forced to pay for their output on pain of jailing. So Guido is keen to FoI what Nick Robinson drinks at the telly taxpayers expense...Here is the news you won't read in the papers or hear from broadcast by our fearless Lobby lushes:-
The total subsidy paid by the taxpayer to the press gallery bar and restaurant last year was £201,100. They drink at the taxpayers expense to the tune of a £1,000 every working day. They really are taking the piss getting pissed at the public's expense.
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Its not just politicians that are having a laugh at the taxpayers expense. So are the people that vote for one particular bunch of them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7288430.stm
Won't work for £25,000 per year because being on the dole is so much cosier. So we import 800,000 Poles to work instead.
Time to get out of the EU, throw out Labour and demolish the welfare state. Use the US system where the government aims for 100% employment rather than welfare provision. Even the Beeboids seem fed up with the way this country is being run now.
Hat tip Tom in comments?
that explains why their work is so poor.
they are supping like tinkers.
and at our expense. fucking cheeky cunts.
£ 1,000 a day subsidy from the taxpayer? At least we can take comfort from the fact that in exchange for this largesse the likes of News International in turn hand over huge amounts of corporation tax every year to the treasury...oh, you say they don't? Sorry.
Parliament certainly is stuffed full of folk who say "do what I say, but not what I do".
Yes, Nick Robinson's drinks tab would be an interesting sight.
At least Andrew Marr is cheap to feed and wine - just give him any of Gordon's spare bodily fluids and he's happy.
How do we know you aren't making this up?
Guido why haven't you had a crack at the fact that MPs are now going to have to file receipts for all expenses - apart from those under £25? See this report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7289294.stm The rest of us mere mortals have to provide receipts for every penny we claim and it isn't even taxpayers' money. Why can't MPs also get receipts for eveything? Is it because they are too important running the country (cue insane laughter)?
We need a third fewer MPs and half the number of Ministers: fewer trotters in the trough and professionals running things, not these self-important amateurs.
And not forgetting that House drink prices are just a little bit lower than in the rest of London....
Lunchtime O'Booze is still alive and well, then.
Do we have an analysis of who drunk what at what cost?. now that would be shaming.
Any little voices out there...
Do we have an analysis of who drunk what at what cost?. now that would be shaming.
Any little voices out there...
anon 3:o3
Easily achieved, now they have their own assemblies, no need whatsoever to fill Westminster up with useless nulab mongs from Wales and Scotland. Simply allocate each assembly a proportional number of votes they can assign to one of the parties to cast for them on defense issues . Job dine
If both Labour and the Conservatives seem rather keen to put up drink prices to stop binge drinking, what's stopping them from starting with the bars in the Houses of Parliament?
Does anyone have a price list that we could compare with, say, a local pub in the centre of London?
If there's one thing that would really piss off the average Brit, it's the idea of someone drinking cheaply at their expense.
Now I understand why momentus occurences in the House go so woefully un-reported, under reported or are biassed by the ommission or obfuscation of certain facts.
More fuel to the revolutionary sentiments heard the length & breadth of this country.
I personally look forward to seeing Nick Robbo's head on a pike anyway
Guido - well done yet again for showing the rest of us just how corrupt our system of government is, now its the lobby slushes who want US to pay for their entertainment - and face it, its been going on under all governments - thank heavens for you in particular for bringing all this to the attention of the rest of us who foot the bills. - What a gravy train, from the top down. Seems they have all got their greasy hands in the till, from the cabinet down.
Off Topic but worth a post
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/article-23451848-details/First+arrest+in+mayor%27s+aide+scandal/article.do
First arrest in mayor's aide scandal
Rob Singh and Pippa Crerar
11.03.08 Related Articles
A key associate of former mayoral aide Lee Jasper was arrested today by police probing the City Hall grants scandal.
Greg Nowell, who ran a scheme linked to Mr Jasper, was seized by Met detectives investigating money laundering.
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Link:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080310/text/80310w0001.htm#08031012000011
"The total subsidy paid by the taxpayer to the press gallery bar and restaurant last year was £201,100. They drink at the taxpayers expense to the tune of a £1,000 every working day."
Unless, of course, someone is runnig a fiddle.
So, MPs want to put up the price of Booze for the Masses, yet they are quite happy to let the masses subsidise their own and their chums in the press booze supplies.
Don't know if this is going over old ground, but I've just read about Lee Jasper's undeclared conviction for assault
It refers to him as a "father of nine" FFS!
Another good post Guido. Can I commend to you and your readership an equally good post on the MSM by the ever reliable Richard North along a similar theme? http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/03/customer-has-spoken.html
Guido, you're right. As you know, you'd have to be clincally insane to drink in the new press bar, it has all the ambience of a motorway service station. But all the drinks in the Palace of Westminster are subsidised. For the record, I don't think that's right either.
As a member of the Lobby, I drink where I like and put my expenses through, and my employer pays them. Anyone who actually drank in the PoW to minimise their spend would be bonkers.
this might explain gordons recent pledge to allow back the oath to her majesty as a labour , yes thats right a labour policy proposal.
it is clear the most pissed are labour , lets be honest you need to be pissed to stand at the goverment dispatch box and face the public after ten years of this lot and the impending doom .
the red despot spotter is now very concerned , that orwell was right , double speak (or spin take your pick) has far more problems than we realised. some elements of the press seem to want the same fake glory as what gordon has turned the house of commons and politics into.
mr purnell what have been upto all these years ???
Lasr orders please makes a good point, can someone get hold of a
Commons Bar Tariff, so we can see just how little these thieving gobshites have to pay to get pissed at taxpayer expense?
When you think of the heavy hand of Customs on the little people bringing a few bottles for a wedding or party, crush their fucking car if they feel like it, the fascist bastards. Ooh it does make me cross.
Keep digging Guido.
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Mt friend Giusseppe claims that Billy Blanko means Michael White in Italian.....is this true demands Colonel Madd
Call me thick if you want but........why is the taxpayer subsidising the Press bar & restaurant at Westminster? What has it got to do with us? If journos want to drink they can surely do it where they want and pay what they must and claim what they dare from their employers?
Why is £201,100 of our money going down the throats of the Press? I don't want to subsidise a load of sponging useless MPs, certainly don't want to be subsidising the Press as well. Mind, some of the coverage is such crap, being pissed must be their only excuse.
So come on Guido, let's name names - who are these well-known hacks of whom Blanko is a parody?
Jon Craig of Sky is definitely one, since it was him who first coined Blanko's catchphrase "I didn't come into the Lobby to drink house wine."
It refers to him as a "father of nine" FFS!
It has been mentioned before, but it is worth saying again and again as it is of great comfort and encouragement to any talentless, ugly, personality-free, conniving gobshites who are afraid they may never get laid.
If Lee can get it without paying - apparently from a sane woman - there's hope for anybody with the slightest spark of virtue to recommend them.
Here's a jolly little piece by babe Victoria Coren for the Observer poking fun at Lee's lurve emails and getting all sniffy about Jasper's adultery. This is a bit gag-making from her, as Victoria had an affair with the late Harry Thompson, which led him to dump his wife - Fiona Duff - and children.
Thompson then died horribly from inopperable lung cancer at age 45. The women apparently all got together to forgive him, (Duff, Coren, and his death-bed bride Lisa Whadcock - she already heard that one, thank you) which is always somewhat easier to do when you know you are about to win the game hands-down. Duff was able to show Harry her new, going-to-live-longer-than-you husband, which was apparently of great comfort to him.
Victoria wrote:
Stressed with work, boggled with porn, baffled by the state of feminism, busy-busy, women are taking whatever they can get.
See, you are in with a chance and the Comments are still open. Chiao and Meow.
well , the alchohol filled bodies of the lobby will sure make our bonfire spark up a fair bit.
i wonder what the drinks tab for the lobby in Brussels is?
its no wonder they report fuck all about whats really going on in the country.
Is it time the Snouts in Trough campaign had its own blog/page?
Anonymous said
We need a third fewer MPs
Perhaps even two thirds, on the basis of just 535 members in the US Congress representing 300 million people.
Have you got a UK TV license Guido?
Have you got a state-approved UK/EU Internet Licence, Guido?
Oh wait, that's still a few years away *doh*.
John Trenchard
How are you mate? Long time no hear.
Thought you might perk up a bit when the price of beer go's up. You Paddies, if you excuse the expression, certainly know your own interests. But like us it seems, you no longer have the balls to protect them
BTW
How much is a Pint in Dublin these days?
Also: Whats the chance of a No vote?
Atlas shrugged
Note to Bitchfest: why are you using the name of my late husband to add a bit of interest to your very dreary point? Furthermore, anyone who believes what they read on the gossip page of the Daily Mail has no place in an intelligent discussion of anything.
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