Happy to subsidise our mps food?

What ? Never. Overfed windbags ! They're all millionaires for God's sake.

Signed

Thank you.
I was going to tack this onto the school dinners thread, but thought it deserved one of it's own.

I signed a few days ago.

An MP on twitter was trying to make out that the Members Dining room was just like any old works canteen with subsidised food. Have you seen the menus?

(To be fair, not all MPs are wealthy.)

I worked for an emergency service and they had a canteen serving hot meals for around £3, rolls for £1 etc. They weren’t subsidised, just not profit making. Nothing like the MPs choices, mind!

I think that if workplace canteens are subsidised it is hard to say to the CEO but you can't have a coffee & sandwich here. I have a friend whose place of work serves lovely food in their cafe and that is subsidised so it happens in private business too.

The HoP is , allegedly, available to all those who work there.
To make it work more fairly those earning less than a certain amount could be provided with a discount card to present when paying. Those that can afford to pay should pay. I think MPs earn enough to pay the going rate for their lunches. They are only supposed to claim expenses for food , no alcohol, if they are away from home on Parliamentary business.

Emergency services don't have the power to suspend our money on their greedy selves.

Spend!!

sorry managed to delete 'canteen'..should read "The HoP canteen is"

Signed a few days ago too. Bloody disgrace. They are well paid and get huge expenses plus they should not be drinking alcohol at work so I think the liquor licence should be cancelled.

Signed last week.

To make it work more fairly those earning less than a certain amount could be provided with a discount card to present when paying. Those that can afford to pay should pay.

If you are talking about people who earn very little, then it wouldn't be fair at all - as soon as someone got a pay rise they would lose it in lunch bills, or have to bring in sandwiches. Means testing always levels down, not up.

If you are talking about MPs on £75k a year, then it's impossible to defend subsidised food when they are voting against the poor being given a few quid to feed hungry children, but it would get silly to allow some people in and others not (and not as economical as catering for larger numbers). The ones who claim for getting their moats cleaned would find a way around it anyway.

I think it would make more sense to have a menu of soup and sandwiches/baked potatoes or similar, as Pantglas describes, regardless of earnings. They could take it or leave it and go to The Ivy instead if they aren't impressed.

The info with the petition has a link to show what mps can claim for, on top of their 70 odd grand a year.
They certainly aren't going short of anything!

I signed too and today was very p....d off to read that my local MP (for whom I did not vote ) was one of those who voted against FSM.

Mine, too.

And mine. He's a useless $%@# anyway and it should have surprised me that he was one of those who voted against. But it didn't.

Signed

Almost 979,000 signatures now

good, good!
Not that I think it will make any difference.

MaizieD

I signed a few days ago.

An MP on twitter was trying to make out that the Members Dining room was just like any old works canteen with subsidised food. Have you seen the menus?

(To be fair, not all MPs are wealthy.)

No all MPs are wealthy?
If I had a salary of £82,000 a year, allowances to maintain a residence in London or in my own constituency, allowances to maintain an office and office staff (very often family), stationery and postage paid (now you understand why you get a Christmas card from your MP), subsidised meals, huge pension etc. I would consider myself wealthy. But then I’m an OAP, what do I know?

They should take sandwiches like everyone else.

Read and signed

Signed

Signed a few days ago. Thanks for starting this separate thread Miss Adventure, you're right it deserves it's own place rather than tacking on to the FSM discussion

The menu choices, along with prices made me so cross. Talk about elitist.

I should have been more specific, Esspee, and pointed out that my comment was in response to EV saying that MPs are all millionaires.

They are not.