"Ministers forked out an undisclosed sum — rumoured to be £200 each — towards the gift"
towards?
How much did I contribute?
(b3tards link to avoid driving traffic to the standard's webshite)
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:43, Reply)
Don't know how much you contributed but i contributed a Wham Bar and some Salt & Shake crisps towards catering.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:47, Reply)
I spend all day working with NHS people who don't know if they'll have jobs next April. It makes me rather sensitive to seeing tax-payers money being spent on tory photo-ops
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:49, Reply)
To be honest stories like this just don't surprise me anymore, we probably paid for Philip to order some porn and a curry whilst she was there.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:54, Reply)
seems to be the attitude at the top, they know nothings going to change.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:45, Reply)
and I wish them luck in finding a job where they actually have to do something other than find a reason for their own existence.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:03, Reply)
I'm a contractor. Rates have doubled lately as they are all struggling cos they have laid off everyone. Those "middle managers" used to do stuff that needs doing
(, Wed 19 Dec 2012, 6:30, Reply)
www.lady-clare.com/superbasket
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:57, Reply)
sounds like the kind of thing she'd think was a bit oiky. They should have got her one of those tv trays with the cushions on the bottom.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:59, Reply)
I believe you are legally obliged to contribute 5k towards the catering.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:06, Reply)
about having someone as poor as Brenda sitting next to him, so instructed the chaps to have a whip-round......I mean one has to help out the little people what?
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:15, Reply)
If they had got her some Marks & Sparks mats she could have exchanged them for a box of Cabernet Sauvignon Al-Tikriti.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:41, Reply)
to someone's present, it doesn't mean we've all then gone and asked our mum for another £50.
Why do you assume anyone but them paid for this? Tin foil hat much?
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:22, Reply)
... in an intrinsically right-wing, monarchy-supporting paper (in the same group as the daily-fail) that did it, You seriously think there was no tax-payer contribution?
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:27, Reply)
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(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:42, Reply)
Probably an exaggeration but I'll bet the majority of MPs are independently wealthy.
(, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:27, Reply)