A tiny article in the paper about the funding of tea.

[mikel429]

I was reading The Sun today (probably my first mistake) and noticed, tucked waaaaaaay at the bottom, an article that consisted of 4 lines and one sentence:
"Hard-up MP's are having to form a kitty for their tea and biscuits as the old way wasn't working."

All I could think was "........what?"

Apart from the issue of "There's bigger things to worry about than the tea break", it raised a couple of questions:

• what was this "old way"? Expenses?
• are MPs actually complaining about tea? Really? God forbid they put their hands into their pockets.

Anyone else think this or am I just being skeptical?

[TheEnd]

It's a coded message.

Quickly, to the fallout shelter my brothers!

[thinfourth2]

How can anything be more important then a cup of tea you foolish boy

[NoNeed]

thinfourth2 said:

How can anything be more important then a cup of tea you foolish boy

+1

[Stu R]

The old way was an expenses fund assigned for that sort of thing. It was damned expensive so it got canned.

[mikel429]

thinfourth2 said:

How can anything be more important then a cup of tea you foolish boy

I'm more of a coffee man myself.
Question is, will the MP's now have to go de-caff? And the biscuits! However shall the poor souls cope?

[johnfm]

The Tea Kitty supervisor may have had his phone hacked.......

[grantone]

mikel429 said:

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• what was this "old way"? Expenses?

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