After the example shown by Rochester & Strood MP Mark Reckless last week, I am hoping for a command performance from our elected representatives this evening. The MPs may have to sit late and in these hot and humid days it is essential that they take on plenty of liquids.
Paul Waugh, deputy political editor, Evening Standard, asked the question. I had to respond.
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How about a reform so that they have to pay the same price for drinks as outside the “Palace of Westminster”? You could have a “basket” of London pubs which report their latest prices to your good self and then you issue an Order from the State Rooms to put the prices up in the said Palace. By the way what is the collective noun for several pubs?
Obiter J – I would be serving my country!
Without being over morbid – but a ‘closure’ of pubs seems an apt collective noun for which have closed because of the smoking ban and economy?
Like it – a “Closure of Pubs”. Of course, in the legislation creating this “Closure of Pubs System” you would be granted powers of inspection of the pubs within the “closure” at any time of your choosing. You would also be sworn of the privy council so that you could get the orders “nodded through”. I will put a junior on to drafting the relevant legislation.