Hungry MPs scoff ‘Full English’ fry ups for under £4 thanks to taxpayers

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1. They deserve it after all there hard work.

2. We’re paying for breakfasts for Hungarian MPs now ?!!! Worlds gone mad ! /s

3. This isn’t really news, the restaurants and the bars at the Houses of Commons have always been outrageously cheap. Just have a look at the menu here and compare it to a typical restaurant around Westminster – hell, compare it to a Spoons in Central London [https://x.com/steveclarkuk/status/1319373200195833856](https://x.com/steveclarkuk/status/1319373200195833856)

   I always thought that being an MP sounds like a great job. Just show up at lunch time, few beers and a steak lunch, head into the Houses of Commons for an afternoon snooze, few more beers when you wake up, get your driver to drive you home.

4. Isn’t it weird how stuff that has been happening in parliament for decades is suddenly outrageous largesse at the public’s expense when you get a Labour government?

5. A lot of workplaces have subsidised canteens. In mine you can get a full English or a roast dinner for 2 quid.

6. Not capitalising the word “SCOFF”, Daily Star? Proud of you, you’re showing real growth.

7. Am I the only one that finds the most interesting part that 70,000 portions of hash browns but only 60 portions of fried bread were sold?

   What have MPs got against fried bread?

8. Funny that MPs with a job get free lunch but the idea of school children getting free meals at school causes such an uproar

9. I simply do not care about this. Subsidised lunch at work is not controversial in my opinion and should be seen as a gold standard of a good employer.

   It’s such a lazy attack on MPs, who aren’t paid enough if anything.

10. Am I the only one who literally doesn’t have a problem with this?

11. Will Mandy still get sausage in the house of Lords.

12. I work at a place, private company, with an external catering company doing the canteen and you can get a “Full English” for pretty much the same price. Coffee from the proper coffee bit is £1.80 for a cappuccino or flat white. Americano is a quid. Likely subsidised by my company on some kind of contract. But it works…. the coffee place and the canteen are very well frequented. Heaving at lunch times. It makes a real difference to peoples moral and it fosters that cross-talk that stops departments becoming silos.

    IMO whatever it costs them to subsidise the canteen here, its clearly worth the price or they wouldn’t do it.

    I don’t know about you but I’d quite like this country’s MPs to be sat, chewing the fat together over lunch. Its how stuff gets rolling and ideas generated.

13. I used to have a pass for Parliament years ago (not an MP) and used to pop in the some mornings just for breakfast because it was cheap and quite good.

14. This isn’t just mp’s this is all the civil servants and staff that work at the mouse of commons, and subsidised meals are common within institutions like this in the uk.

15. So? Full English in my work canteen is only £2.10 so there can’t be that much subsidised by the tax payer to get the cost down to 4 quid

16. My friend worked for an MP for a few years – I’d go to the bars in the House of Commons and they were great – proper old boozers with very high standards and dirt cheap.

    I don’t have a problem with subsidised food and drinks for mps and staff btw. Lots of jobs have this and other perks.

17. I see this post so often but never see the explanation as to why. This practice is common across the uk in large businesses. Some have internal canteens others have catering vans that visit at set times. If you have a workforce in the hundreds and a lunch break of an hour you dont really want your entire force having to leave the site at once , have to go and find somewhere to eat and then return. It creates multiple issues on this scale from simple things like increasing chances of lateness and productivity to security concerns (in this case MPs and high ranking civil servants) like people talking over their lunch in public. The reason it is so cheap is often because it is done with the purpose of enticing staff members to use it rather than leave the site.

18. The canteen should have average market pricing so that MPs are able to stay in touch with how the population are charged. 

19. This feels like rage bait.

    Lots of canteens subsidise, a fry up is about a fiver where I work.

    When I was in the Army it was even less.

20. First thing that should be cut is all the perks for these shits.

21. I used to pay £2.50 for a full English, a cup of tea and a can of Coke, from ASDA staff canteen years ago.

22. Don’t forget the cheap pints and free snuff!

23. Rather this than they take an hour out of the commons – where they work – and then claim a more expensive breakfast on expenses anyway.

24. My wife works in catering.

    She has 15 or so staff canteens office buildings where they serve coffee for £1 and lunch for £5. Most people reading this probably have staff catering where you don’t pay full high street price.

    It’s because the food is not run for a profit so there is t as much mark up as the high street.

    These stories are bullshit outrage farming and always have been.

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