Gordon Brown travels in UC.. for the food!!!!

[Nottingham Nick]

According to page 17 of today's Daily Mail (so it MUST be true [:(!] )

Chancellor Gordon Brown, and his chums from the Treasury, travelled with VS to the IMF meeting in Washington today, instead of taking their usual seats on BA.

The reason given by 'a DC bound source'... 'He wanted to avoid food produced by Gate Gourmet, I imagine' [:0]

The small article in the 'Ephraim Hardcastle' column goes on to say... Virgin Atlantic's grub - by LSG- is considered a cut above Gate Gourmet's [}:)][}:)]


Sorry, can't find a link, and I hope I haven't quoted too much of the article to offend the copyright rules.[:I]

Nick

Whoever he and his numerous entourage travel with we pay the bill,hope the food was up to the standard of recent reports.
[}:)]:D

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by jaguarpig
Whoever he and his numerous entourage travel with we pay the bill,hope the food was up to the standard of recent reports.
[}:)]:D

LMFAO

Whatever the reason ... if HMG use Virgin that's ace

Respect!

(in Ali G impersonation mode!)

[mitchja]

Good on him!!

I'm sure I read somewhere that the PM has to fly BA wheather he likes it or not.

Regards

[Decker]

You're normally guaranteed to meet v. nice MOD types on the IAD routes...

I'm sure I read somewhere that the PM has to fly BA whether he likes it or not.

He usually takes queeny's ride:D

Originally posted by Decker
You're normally guaranteed to meet v. nice MOD types on the IAD routes...

Thank you! [:I]

[Decker]

You're not Nimrod are you?

[mcmbenjamin]

(OT sorta)

Now Dunkin' Doughnuts is now open in the B terminal at Dulles. Right before Ben and Jerry's ice cream! [:I]

Benjamin

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
(OT sorta)

Now Dunkin' Doughnuts is now open in the B terminal at Dulles. Right before Ben and Jerry's ice cream! [:I]

Benjamin

Uh....yeah...thank you for um...notifying us of this...event.[B)]

I think its about time our top politicians
( in office ones ) started flying upper and driving flash cars, makes me sick the "guilt trip" attitude people have to have for being a success.

Though I would rather Tony stayed on top, accountants are hardly go for it are they.

I bet Tony would get the LAMB if he asked for it....sulk

Originally posted by easygoingeezer
I think its about time our top politicians
( in office ones ) started flying upper and driving flash cars, makes me sick the "guilt trip" attitude people have to have for being a success.

Though I would rather Tony stayed on top, accountants are hardly go for it are they.

I bet Tony would get the LAMB if he asked for it....sulk

Now how different we are. I would prefer to see Tony and his sad little gang going Travel city direct and on a one way journey at that![}:)]

Originally posted by Nottingham Nick
Chancellor Gordon Brown, and his chums from the Treasury, travelled with VS to the IMF meeting in Washington today, instead of taking their usual seats on BA.

The reason given by 'a DC bound source'... 'He wanted to avoid food produced by Gate Gourmet, I imagine' [:0]

I guess that this has nothing to do with his registration of interest:

"On accompanying visits to Washington DC in April and December 2004, my wife and baby were upgraded by Virgin Atlantic Airways." (Registered 10 January 2005)

Do you really think that you'd ever see the Chancellor of the Exchequer pay to be at the pointy end? Surely not!

Cheers, Howard

Oh dear am I the only Brit that likes Tony, at least he is a good honest Tory:D

Not sure about Gordon though, an accountant running a first world nation, how exiting will that be....not.

Tony, at least he is a good honest Tory

and I still don't like him and gordy even less:D

Originally posted by easygoingeezer
Oh dear am I the only Brit that likes Tony, at least he is a good honest Tory:D

No of course not - I know of at least two others!

accountant running a first world nation, how exiting will that be....not.

Speaking as an accountant, the same critism could be made of funeral Directors perhaps;).

Actually our Gordon is not an accountant. He is the son of a clergyman, then after a short academic career as a university rector, he became a journalist[xx(]. He is blind in one eye, which is of course why he has been able to be totally honest all these years in saying

I do not have my eyes set on the Prime Minister's job

. His biggest regret is making deals when he was p,%sed in Granita retaurant in Islington.

Originally posted by sailor99
His biggest regret is making deals when he was p,%sed in Granita retaurant in Islington.

Allegedly...

You know I just re-read that registration of interest: "On accompanying visits to Washington DC in April and December 2004, my wife and baby were upgraded by Virgin Atlantic Airways."

So, the way I read that was that Gordo had booked himself in UC (presumably at our expense) but was prepared to let his poor long suffering wife and sprog sit at the back, presumeably with the sprog sitting on her knee. Nice guy... the last person I heard admitting publicly popping their other half at the back while they larged it up at the front was the lovely (!) John McCririck (whom I was unlucky enough to involuntarily bump into for the second time in my life when he was completely trollied in a lift at the Four Seasons in Vegas a couple of years back).

Are Gordon Brown and John McCririck by any chance related? Shirley not! But you heard it here first.

Cheers, Howard

[Bazz]

Are they the same person Howard? You never see them in the same picture ;)

Well Sailor if I were primeminister I would implement the first gay dictatorship, there would be a tax on shell suits and hoodies, champers would be tax free and posh cars would get police escourts
dressed fashionably of course. Single people would at last not be taxed to death in order to pay for other peoples children and there would be a no tolerance policy towards infants that scream and run wild in airports and my upper class lounge:D

The armed forces would naturally be dressed in Versace. first mission to invade the chapagne region of france and occupy the vineyards, they would surrender in any case.

OK. You've got my vote then. But suggest you cut the army dressed in versace bit - that's just kinky:D.

How about some diamante pistols then:D

How about some diamante pistols then

Probably function better than the SA80:D

Originally posted by easygoingeezer
How about some diamante pistols then:D

Nah - Too Liberace. Suggest pristine navy with gold braid all over the place. Not so much Village People, but more Russell Crowe in Master and Commander[:p]. Good God, the very thought makes me weak at the knees and IÕm not even gay[:0]