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jaysay

14-11-2010 09:52

Is this to your taste sir

Commons ¿food-taster¿ will cost taxpayers £500 a day | Mail Online

Nice work if you can get it, £500 a day to taste food in the House of Commons

cashman

14-11-2010 11:01

Re: Is this to your taste sir

may be n idea to have n alcohol taster also, some good stuff in the bar n i'm sure the research team would assist fer less than £500 a day, thus saving the taxpayer money.:D

Benipete

14-11-2010 11:12

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 861407)

may be n idea to have n alcohol taster also, some good stuff in the bar n i'm sure the research team would assist fer less than £500 a day, thus saving the taxpayer money.:D

Well I for one am not prepared to take a drop in money for anyone.:drink::drunk:

MargaretR

14-11-2010 12:14

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Food tasters were traditionally used by kings and emperors to detect poison.
Politicians have become paranoic? - maybe rightly so:rolleyes:

We live in 'revolutionary times' - when anything that can happen, likely will.

Mancie

14-11-2010 12:51

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 861427)

From reading the article looks like there are rumblings of revolution in Parliment.. MP's are up in arms about being charged £1.90 for a bacon buttie and the increase of the "all you can eat" meal to £15... mind you if your'e in the queue behind Eric Pickles there's problably nowt left anyway! :)

jaysay

14-11-2010 17:50

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 861434)

Must have been totally horrendous when two jags was around

yerself

14-11-2010 18:08

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Originally Posted by Mancie

mind you if your'e in the queue behind Eric Pickles there's problably nowt left anyway!

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Must have been totally horrendous when two jags was around

Can you imagine what it might have been like if PB had achieved his ambition? Pickles, PB and fatty Soames first three in the queue.:D

Benipete

14-11-2010 20:08

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Of course now that judges are removing MP's from office that tell lies It won't be much of a problem in the short term.:eek::D

Councilors beware.The hand that has written moves on.;):D

Ken Moss

16-11-2010 06:47

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We're no better in Hyndburn.

Over £13k on lunchtime buffets for the councillors over the past five years, plus a few extra thousand on special events, all to one business. Someone up for election in Baxenden, I think.....

I think we councillors could stand to make our own butties like the rest of the country, couldn't we?

garinda

16-11-2010 07:29

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Originally Posted by yerself (Post 861502)

Can you imagine what it might have been like if PB had achieved his ambition? Pickles, PB and fatty Soames first three in the queue.:D

At least we'd know he wouldn't be starving himself to death, unable to get his hands on an affordable hot dog.

"Anybody who can find a meal for £10 in London should write a tourist guide"

'Surely you wouldn’t expect the leader to camp out in a tent in Hyde Park?"
Council makes a meal of rises - Accrington Observer

Though he would have been much happier camping in St.James Park, as it's much nearer to parliament.

Still, no used crying over spilt milk, or opportunities lost, now.

He's had my tourist guide to good value eating houses, I'm not doing the Rindy Roo guide to affordable accommodation in London...just yet.

garinda

16-11-2010 07:35

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 861769)

Perhaps significant savings could be made, and cuts, if they didn't take the crusts off, and stopped cutting the sandwiches into dainty little triangles?

:rolleyes::D

Ken Moss

16-11-2010 07:42

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 861778)

Perhaps significant savings could be made, and cuts, if they didn't take the crusts off, and stopped cutting the sandwiches into dainty little triangles?

:rolleyes::D

We don't do that anymore. Health and Safety were right onto that a few years ago when they realised how sharp the implement would have to be to cut off the crusts.

The Hyndburn Labour view of sorting out your own butties like the rest of the country might jar badly with those who still want cucumber sandwiches and tea on the lawn but how many private sector companies lay on a spread for their staff?

Wake up, Conservatives.

garinda

16-11-2010 08:34

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Is there a job going for someone to chew up the food for them first, and then feed it to them, like a mummy bird does for her little dickie birds?

S'ok, scrub that.

My breakfast's just come back up.

jaysay

16-11-2010 08:40

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 861769)

It maybe an idea if you looked into council printing cost over the last 5 years too:rolleyes:

Ken Moss

16-11-2010 13:38

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 861809)

It maybe an idea if you looked into council printing cost over the last 5 years too:rolleyes:

That's the Peter in you talking, particularly as two days after my FOI request about Terry Hurn (see Baxenden by-election) making a very tidy profit out of HBC feedings its councillors he tried to have yet another stab at Graham Jones by bringing Dalton's into it.

There's a bit of a difference between a local printer running off copies of council literature for them and councillors stuffing their faces on free butties.

You'll forgive me for thinking that the former is fairly essential and the latter is us simply getting our trotters in the trough at the taxpayers' expense.

jaysay

16-11-2010 18:09

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 861873)

That's the Peter in you talking, particularly as two days after my FOI request about Terry Hearn (see Baxenden by-election) making a very tidy profit out of HBC feedings its councillors he tried to have yet another stab at Graham Jones by bringing Dalton's into it.

There's a bit of a difference between a local printer running off copies of council literature for them and councillors stuffing their faces on free butties.

You'll forgive me for thinking that the former is fairly essential and the latter is us simply getting our trotters in the trough at the taxpayers' expense.

And you actually think that this would stop if Labour controlled the Council, think again lochinvar, I remember the last time they ran hyndburn mate, they even provided doggy bags

garinda

16-11-2010 18:13

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 861954)

...they even provided doggy bags

Was that part of a Community Cohesion manifesto?

Picnic lunches for doggers?

jaysay

16-11-2010 18:17

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 861957)

Was that part of a Community Cohesion manifesto?

Picnic lunches for doggers?

No to sustain some councillors through the week;)

Ken Moss

16-11-2010 18:23

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 861954)

And you actually think that this would stop if Labour controlled the Council, think again lochinvar, I remember the last time they ran hyndburn mate, they even provided doggy bags

Mark this day and throw it back at me if it isn't done pretty quickly under a Labour administration.

I imagine all the Tory cronies will ooze out of the woodwork onto this forum once it's safe so you'll have plenty of backup. As for disappearing once Labour get in again, how do you know? There hasn't been a Labour administration in Hyndburn whilst Accyweb has been around, you have no frame of reference.

Do I honestly sound like someone who runs for cover once things get a bit heated?

garinda

16-11-2010 18:26

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 861965)

I imagine all the Tory cronies will ooze out of the woodwork onto this forum once it's safe

Fe-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an elected man.

:D

jaysay

16-11-2010 18:26

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 861965)

you maybe told to shut it mate;)

Ken Moss

16-11-2010 18:31

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 861969)

you maybe told to shut it mate;)

Oh no!

Those ill-chosen words have been used in my direction before and are always rewarded with a caustic riposte. I notice Nick Whittaker hasn't been allowed out to play again by The LeadersOfficeHBC, also conspicuous by his absence.

Perhaps I have a thicker online skin than they do. Bless them.

andrewb

16-11-2010 18:32

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 861407)

may be n idea to have n alcohol taster also, some good stuff in the bar n i'm sure the research team would assist fer less than £500 a day, thus saving the taxpayer money.:D

They've been doing it for free for years. :D

garinda

16-11-2010 18:37

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Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 861974)

They've been doing it for free for years. :D

Do you have to pop things in your mouth, before your boss, Andrew Percy M.P., will do the same?

:rolleyes:

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