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It definitely cares about the propagation of the EU and its associated gravy train. I learned yesterday that the EU has a wine cellar with more than 40,000 bot

• mattmanser 10y ago
  What a silly thing to be outraged about, why wouldn't it? It's got to entertain 10,000s of visitors per year, 40,000 sounds a reasonable number. Here's a list of the UK parliament's wine cellar, which has thousands of bottles of wine: https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/foi-and-eir/commons-foi-disclosures/catering-services-retail/content-of-house-of-commons-wine-cellar/ https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/foi-and-eir/c... Are you similarly outraged that the UK own 1128 bottles of coke?
  • zigzigzag 10y ago
    By that logic almost every organisation should have a private wine cellar. Normally when entertaining you buy wine from suppliers on demand, not build up an enormous stash yourself. But it's not the fact that they have drinks on site that surprised me. It's the vast quantity. The entire stock of all drinks including non-alcoholic drinks you point to is worth only about £30,000 vs the EU which has over 40,000 bottles of wine alone. I'd guess the value of the EU drinks cabinet is thus at least 10x great, probably more like 50x-100x greater. It's reflective of a wider problem with incredibly profligate spending on luxuries for EU staff at a time when most European governments are trying to cut their spending to manageable levels.
    • NetStrikeForce 10y ago
      Seriously mate, drop it, you're not looking good in this discussion. You're already leaving the EU, stop whining.
    • Normal_gaussian 10y ago
      It is cheaper to operate your own stockpile than to purchase on demand.