Those who know me are aware that I would gladly relinquish my virtue if someone would offer me a lobby pass and an expense account.
Yet one lobby journalist tells me that some MPs are experts at taking chunks out of a Hack’s hard-won exes.
LibDem elder statesman Menzies “Ming” Campbell for example. He is known never to accept a lunch or dinner without bringing his wife along, which adds a third to the bill for a start.
He also, always and without fail, orders champagne with his meal, which can add quite a chunk to a lunch bill. Recess Monkey hears that on one occasion, a journalist just stopped for a snack somewhere with Ming and ended up filing an expenses claim for sandwiches… with champagne.
Ming evidently believes there is such a thing as a free lunch.
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Surely adding Ming’s wife to the hack-plus-Ming equation would increase the bill by fifty percent — ie half, rather than a third?
Unless she’s a fussy eater.
BJ said this on June 5th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
Hack + Ming + Champagne is the equation.
Though your pedantry is welcome.
Recess Monkey
Recess Monkey said this on June 6th, 2005 at 10:43 am
the brutal equation is in fact
monkey + this rubbish = shit banana
Tapass said this on June 7th, 2005 at 2:30 pm