When Labour held its big gala dinner recently, the union Unite booked several tables, and the union provided a list of names with their "dietary" requirements.
Union big-wigs are not great vegetarians, not even these days, and so the word "none" was written in name after name.
Until the list got to Unite's co-leader Derek Simpson, where someone wrote "fish and chips".
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Comment number 1.
At 23rd Sep 2008, barriesingleton wrote:PUNITIVE REGIME
Michael - do you have to stay in after school if you don't come up with a posting?
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Comment number 2.
At 23rd Sep 2008, JunkkMale wrote:I hate to follow Barrie as he's still awaiting moderation but risking it, and sniggers aside, don't these defenders of the working class know the price of fish and spuds these days???
What kind of signal does this extravagence send out?
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