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Do as We say, not as We do.
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http://www.telegraph....d-champagne-bill.html
The politicians are forever going on regarding our drinking habits and their plan to stop the sale of cheap booze.
Yet they should look closer to home, and we should call a halt on the subsidy on their booze.
/// taxpayer contribution to the wine bill was the equivalent of £115,000, or £176 per MP. ///
Have you a subsisted drinking and eating venue in your place of employment?
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The politicians are forever going on regarding our drinking habits and their plan to stop the sale of cheap booze.
Yet they should look closer to home, and we should call a halt on the subsidy on their booze.
/// taxpayer contribution to the wine bill was the equivalent of £115,000, or £176 per MP. ///
Have you a subsisted drinking and eating venue in your place of employment?
The following Related Articles make interesting reading also.
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Daffy, maybe so, but we often did, until the bosses eventually banned it, even though they did, exec lunches and all that. I don't think it happens in many big companies now, partly cost, partly too much work, and you can't function too well in the afternoon with lots of booze inside you. MP's and drinking, not a new thing, with the infamous George Brown, a well known drunk, not sure how effective an MP he was either.
Daffy, so have i, in the days when we had pub closing time at 3pm, then open again at 5.30pm or thereabouts. It wasn't unusual for the men office workers to knock back 4/5 pints at lunchtime, go back to work, then be waiting outside for the pub to open at 5.30, and still be there at closing time. That is why i get cross when young people are castigated for drinking too much, many of their parents, even grandparents were no better.
The place I worked was the lunch establishment of choice for a lot of people from BAE Systems Warton. It used to worry me that these people would throw back a few beers at lunchtime then return to working on the designing and testing of military jets. We also had a few of the teachers from the local primary school who were lunchtime regulars.
Daffy, biggest drinkers were journalists, followed by black taxi drivers, who more often than not rolled out pub and got in cab to go to work, no one thought anything of it then, about putting passengers lives at risk. It was a culture of heavy drinking, at lunchtime we would go to the local eaterie, have food and wine, back to pub in the evening, and it wasn't once in a while, but most days.
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