At last the EU spends our money wisely

[InsaneApache]

.....err perhaps not....


The assembly kicks off with a “project visit” next Sunday. According to sources at the Barbados embassy in Brussels, this is an EU euphemism for a four-hour chartered cruise aboard the Harbour Master — a 100ft ship billed as “the longest floating bar in the Caribbean”.

The four-deck-high “floating entertainment centre” also sports a 70ft waterslide and an onboard craft village. “It will be a relaxed thing. They shouldn’t have to work too much on it,” said an embassy official.


The politicians’ spouses will have plenty to do too. Their programme includes water sports

OMG! :laugh4:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2450040,00.html

That's it, I'm in the wrong job, I'm going to stand for the EU parliament. :clown:

[Hepcat]

GLENYS KINNOCK, champion of the Third World poor, is to lead 70 members of the European parliament to a Barbados resort for a conference debating development and deprivation.

So they are spending lots of money to go on a luxury cruise to discuss poverty and deprivation.:inquisitive:

There is something wrong here.

[Scurvy]

:laugh4: - laughing aside, its a disgrace :beam:

[doc_bean]

Meh, this is how politics work. Same thing with top level business executives. Probably even the same with charity organisation...

[InsaneApache]

Meh, this is how politics work. Same thing with top level business executives. Probably even the same with charity organisation...

Yes but at least with business and charity you get to have a choice whether or not to contribute to their largesse. No wonder the UK keeps saying 'we want our money back' with this sort of beanfeast going on.

[doc_bean]

Yes but at least with business and charity you get to have a choice whether or not to contribute to their largesse. No wonder the UK keeps saying 'we want our money back' with this sort of beanfeast going on.

Actually the EU might be a good thing for spending. Now all the leaders sit together occasionally, less need for top level diplomats and diplomatic formalities (read: hookers and champagne), so we might end up actually saving money.

...or not.


FUN FACT: In my girlfirend's job contract there is a clause which basically says that if you're staying in a hotel for work you can't write of hookers as a business expense.

[Banquo's Ghost]

FUN FACT: In my girlfirend's job contract there is a clause which basically says that if you're staying in a hotel for work you can't write of hookers as a business expense.

Most courtesans employed for the EU provide invoices that range from "secretarial services" to "subsistence". They are usually VAT registered.

I kid you not. I used to work as a consultant to the European Investment Bank (amongst others) and we had to arrange this kind of stuff to get anything done.

[Spetulhu]

Most courtesans employed for the EU provide invoices that range from "secretarial services" to "subsistence". They are usually VAT registered.

I kid you not.

Why would you be kidding? There's plenty of countries where you can't officially register prostitution as a source of income. You'd have to call it something else when dealing with the authorities just because they don't have a code to put on your tax file.

[Kralizec]

A couple of months ago Greece artificially infloated her GDP by including income by prostitution and black market sales, to decrease her budgetary deficit expressed in percentage of the GDP.

IA, can I join your party?

[Rodion Romanovich]

Ha this is even funnier than "at least blah inches without normal curvature" ~:)

[BDC]

FUN FACT: In my girlfirend's job contract there is a clause which basically says that if you're staying in a hotel for work you can't write of hookers as a business expense.

Communists are everywhere these days... *glances around suspiciously*

[InsaneApache]

Are you on drugs? :inquisitive:

If you are....I'll let you join my 'Progressive Party' ; I'm open to suggestions for a manifesto.

[Inspired by Kralizec's response:yes: ]