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if you’re not paying attention to minor news cycles in british politics fist of all congratulations second of all you’re missing the entire media and political class defend day drinking on the job right now

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.

Every parliamentary system has these sort of practices that contribute to greasing the wheels at relatively low cost and would not make it past any modern firm with a well functioning legal or compliance department

"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