Like a decent meal out in central london and a couple of bottles of wine easy comes to £60-80 a head. Four people at a table and that's £2-300 without anyone indulging in any particular largesse.
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And to be honest if they went somewhere a bit trendier and got a couple of bottles of wine, for four people I could see it coming out to north of 400 pretty easily. Honestly that’s fine, when it comes to government budgets that’s basically a rounding error
I mean you can make the argument if you want, but it's kinda expected, especially at the level of visiting foreign dignitaries and whatnot. Maybe it shouldn't be but that's how things work right now!
Well it's not but given the specificity and origin of it, I am absolutely assuming the standard right wing press playbook of "local council spends a bajillionty pounds of YOUR TAX MONEY on wasteful frivolities!" is in play here.
Well it's the foreign office entertainment and outside restaurant budget, which is one of those things where, rightly or wrongly, a lot of "official meetings" take place in bars and restaurants. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
Yeah of course it is, which is why I think it's not necessarily something I'm that arsed about. The Express will say "why is the foreign office spending thousands on drinks" and Reeves will jump and say "this is an outrage" and then what did we even win?
Yeah I get that. I'm very much in general against "how things are now" and I think accepting them is a mistake. I'd agree that focusing on them is a bit trivial.
Yes and there's absolutely a "why is everything about going to a bar or having wine" point that can also be made but it's kind of, like, ancillary to this one.
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