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yes, yes, The Thick of It, we’ve all seen it

But yeah, somehow drinking on the job is the story that drives these people, that's the hill they want to die on

Those are great

That was in public though. Totally different in the swanky, private, subsidised office club.

oh it's fine, they balance it out again www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

if they could stop being transphobic this country sounds prety cool

It's a bit fucked, and it makes you sound categorically insane to defend this sort of thing, but I would file this in a similar realm as Earmarks. On its face unjustifiable but in effect beneficial to the functioning of the legislature with significant negative 2nd order effects if removed.

Just to point out that pilots and cabin crew can spend 15 hours cooped up with irritating people and are not allowed to drink. They are also then not expected to drink BETWEEN duties either.

(taking notes) sundowning is an integral part of british democracy

So many crashouts it's great. Revealing about a lot of decisions they've made. I wonder if BREXIT would have been prevented by a sober parliament?

absolute fucking freaks

*person who has never been at risk of knowing what a normal job is* A normal job doesn't require you to hang around for 14+ hours.

"A normal job doesn't require you to sit around for 14 hours" At work I regularly drive two hours to sit in my truck for seven hours, do one task and then drive two hours back to the office and spend an hour filling out reports and I don't even get to have a single beer while I do it

James Ball has taken a side, which is how you can tell which side is the painfully stupid one

"a normal job doesn't require you to hang around on site for hours to do a basically mindless task" that is, almost definitionally, what a normal job is

Yeah we’re not super happy abt this either

if I had to spend time around bri*ish politicians i’d probably start day drinking too

At least you never had a prime minister call a schnapps election because he got off his face. 🤣

Alcohol is literally poison they don't need. If they have a physical dependency, they need rehab, not public office.

I wish I was that poorly paid ...

It's exactly the same shit as their refusal to move out of Westminster because they want to keep cosplaying Pitt the Younger amid all the collapsing masonry. Most of their problems are down to self-imposed refusal to engage with modernisation.

Weird that the perks aren't mentioned, like all expenses paid trips to Israel.

Probably not the best thing for them to draw attention to most MPs not having any qualifications for the role...

'Democracy *requires* Oxford inbreds to block constituency voices for 30 years' is a very funny line to throw in there.

"Everybody with power is severely crunched and sleep-deprived. So, in order to make these people - whose decisions will affect millions - more comfortable, they also get drunk on the job." Excellent. Very reassuring.

Whoever wrote that is talking absolute bollocks. I bet it was someone in the Westminster bubble. Poorly paid, long hours 🙄 There are many actual poorly paid jobs with actual long shifts that don’t get perks, expenses and subsidised food and drink and you actually have to work

I heard a candidate for parliament over here (denmark) talk about how the toughest part of campaigning was how much alchohol they were required to drink in order to maintain their political network (volunteers, stakeholders, candidates etc.) Seems like it's very ingrained in the political culture.

Everyone working in the MoD, civie or otherwise, should be allowed to tell them to Fuck Right Off.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

that's my goat

Oh sure, when MPs drink on the job it's "part of the culture". But when I do it I'm "unprofessional" and "teaching the maths wrong".

img-cat_with_newspaper.jpg . o O (i should become an MP)

This is helping me contextualize a lot of things but especially Industry

Is this why they spell things all funneaigh?

Apparently we’re ruled by the inebriati…

bloody sammy wilson just yells so fucking loudly i forgot about the SDLP existing

I am English and I've been too deep in my terror of the RefUK party getting elected next week to notice this sort of thing. But yes, it doesn't surprise me. Pigs in a trough as ever.

oh we already got that covered here

a famously non-rhotic people

me either so it's okay

Fist *for all

I got stuck at that.

Has the accuser lodged an official complaint?

Uhh based??

a reminder that this whole entire thing is also fucked in other places can be nice from time to time

I mean getting MPs drunk and writing down what they say is probably a good source of information for journalists.

(THIS USER DOES NOT ENDORSE THE THING THEY JUST SAID)

To be fair, they need it to take the edge of all that lobbyist-supplied cocaine