PM’s Chief Secretary defends MPs drinking in the Commons insisting ‘they’re not conducting open heart surgery’
Source: tylerthe-theatre
PM’s Chief Secretary defends MPs drinking in the Commons insisting ‘they’re not conducting open heart surgery’
Source: tylerthe-theatre
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Trivialising the role of governing the country to justify drinking on the job, in this political temperature… would he like another bullet for his other foot?
Neither am I, but I’d still get a disciplinary for showing up to work pissed. Willing to bet the vast, vast majority of people reading this would too.
So everyone apart from surgeons are allowed to drink at work?
If I turn up to work after a night out drinking, I can get sacked. If I’m caught drinking In work, I would get sacked. Absolutely under no circumstances should they be fucking drinking on the job.
Personally, it’s the fact it’s subsidized – if they were paying London pub prices I’d be less miffed.
>”I don’t have a problem when MPs are on the estate until 10 or 11 o’ clock at night, having a glass of wine with their dinner. I mean, I don’t think that’s a problem in the South.
>”I think if you worked in insurance or banking or in legal services or even in a call centre and you’re working until late, you’re allowed to go and have something to eat on an evening.
As if he can’t sound anymore out of touch
“Why shouldn’t MPs drink? It’s not like we ever do anything important” is a hell of a sobering defence for the country to hear
Refreshingly honest tho
They’re not doing open heart surgery, no. They’re deciding on major issues impacting every single person in the country Darren. Why don’t we let everyone get pissed while they make critical decisions?
I worked with one company where drinking after midnight when you were due in work, for an office job, was strictly forbidden. If you were found to have the smell of alchol on your breath it was a disiplinary. Twice and you were out. Staff were terrified by this regime.
This is why nothing ever seems to improve in the UK. The governing class are so far out of touch with the real world they aren’t capable of understanding problems let alone fixing them.
The vast majority of jobs you are not allowed to nip away for drinks on your break and then return to work. That world just doesn’t exist for most of the country.
Who the fuck decided that would make a good soundbite?
At the very least, surely those with important roles in government shouldn’t indulge at all? Imagine the defence secretary having an emergency briefing about a Russian incursion after several pints.
>”I think if you worked in insurance or banking or in legal services or even in a call centre and you’re working until late, you’re allowed to go and have something to eat on an evening.
A meal is different from a drink though, I’m not sure coming back from a break with the whiff of alcohol will go down well at most jobs. I’m sure the MPs can survive without some wine or whatever until they finish and get home, if they can’t they have issues they need to address.
The fact that they feel it doesn’t matter if they’re drinking proves how useless they are.
Missing the point again, most of us could do our job after a couple, but almost all jobs in the real world come with non-drinking during work hours clauses, absolutely while lots of us flount them at lunch, we aren’t doing it in subsidised bars on site.
So everyone can drink at work except Heart Doctors?
There’s no double-standard they won’t entertain.
Everything that would not be acceptable or allowed for all of us general members of the public, is fine, and just considered normal for politicians apparently.
They don’t give two shits about it either, as long as they have their privilege they’re happy.
Oh in that case, let’s sack them all since we should be able to replace them so easily
Yeah, it’s not like you’ve got the lives and welfare of the entire population in your hands, is it?
Eff me
If you’re going to publicly argue that MPs should be allowed to booze in between voting then you clearly don’t take your role seriously enough, and should get out of the way for someone who does.
What a bunch of entitled bellends.
Nope!
They shouldn’t be drinking whilst working in the first place.
It’s place of work, not a social club.
If I started drinking at work, id be sacked for gross misconduct.
If they want to drink, they can do so on their own dime. I’m sick of my taxes subsiding bottom feeders.
They should all be drink and drug tested, then kicked out if positive.
No, they’re running the, checks notes, fucking country!
Unless your job is professional alcohol tester, you shouldn’t be drinking at work. And even then you shouldn’t be getting pissed.
After work is a different kettle of fish. If you work a tough job, you do you. I get why they need a pub in parliament as it’s unlikely 600 odd MPs and aids will all go to the local spoons after work. But it should be closed until after work.
If you can’t manage your job without a drink and a bar at work you may want to reconsider your career.
They’re supposed to be running in the sodding country. Imagine a board director of a major plc drinking at work – they’d be out the door in no time. It’s completely and utterly unacceptable.