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Bure budgie said:
Just popped into Sainsbury, selling turkey crowns for £4-60p,reduced from £16.
Thats next Christmas sorted<cracker>
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Nice, you don't get discounts as much as that in Australia, not that there was that much excess around this year in Perth. Most places were very unfestive this year.
 
Bure budgie said:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/liz-truss-takes-500000-private-flight-to-australia-8650180
Good God, what planet are these people on.
No regard for anyone but me, me, me, me, me
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A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “It’s necessary for the foreign secretary to travel abroad to pursue UK interests around security, trade and technology, as she did during this visit to Australia.

“This trip used government transport and was fully within rules set out in the ministerial code.”

Did Truss write that and put it out as an anonymous spokesperson, or does some poor civil servant have to come up with that?
 
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DHCanary said:
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “It’s necessary for the foreign secretary to travel abroad to pursue UK interests around security, trade and technology, as she did during this visit to Australia.

“This trip used government transport and was fully within rules set out in the ministerial code.”

Did Truss write that and put it out as an anonymous spokesperson, or does some poor civil servant have to come up with that?
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Whether something is within the 'rules' and morally right are different things. The one small thing I would say is that there are still hardly any flights to and from Australia, but what about a remote meeting? I Skype my parents pretty much daily!

The 'security concerns' is total BS. You have cubicles in most international business/first class these days and if you really want, book the surrounding seats! Still end up 1/10th of the price of a private plane! The ruling class have totally forgotten that the word 'minister' comes from the Latin for servant. They should be serving the people rather than being trough snuffling pigs on the (private) gravy train to wealth built of the backs of hard earning worker's taxes!
 
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zogean_king said:
Whether something is within the 'rules' and morally right are different things. The one small thing I would say is that there are still hardly any flights to and from Australia, but what about a remote meeting? I Skype my parents pretty much daily!

The 'security concerns' is total BS. You have cubicles in most international business/first class these days and if you really want, book the surrounding seats! Still end up 1/10th of the price of a private plane! The ruling class have totally forgotten that the word 'minister' comes from the Latin for servant. They should be serving the people rather than being trough snuffling pigs on the (private) gravy train to wealth built of the backs of hard earning worker's taxes!
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I love the 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' excuse. As if anyone is going to take anything seriously that comes out of the mouth of that airhead.
 
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