On 08/09/2010 20:48, allantracy wrote:

Ho ho ho, your wit knows no beginnings. Got any more? I bet everyone
loves chatting to you down the pub.

Pubs would be far to proletarian.


I’ll have you know I once drank in a not for profit state owned bar,
one of the members’ bars in the House of Commons.

When I checked the price of my beer, boy had the state delivered.

Figures I've seen quoted in recent "OMG MPs and their guests eat and
drink it's disgusting!!!!" newspaper articles suggested the prices are
more than in, say, a Trafalgar Square pub.

Isn't a reason for the "low" price to do with not paying rent for the
space? I suspect a lot of pubs could lower their prices if they got the
space free (a place I used to work used to go on about the "subsidised"
canteen, subsidised in that the contractors didn't pay rent. Nor did all
the empty floors in the block, of course)
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK