Huge delivery of Champagne arrives at Tory conference as Boris Johnson's pals discuss

A huge delivery of Champagne has arrived at Tory conference as MPs discussed poverty and homelessness.
Dozens of bottles of Pol Roger bubbly were delivered to the Manchester Central conference centre this morning, as MPs gathered to discuss housing and social care funding.
The posh plonk, which costs as much as £46 a bottle, was seen piled high on a pallet being wheeled in to the venue.
The moment was captured shortly after the Office For National Statistics revealed a shocking 726 people died while homeless last year - a 22% increase on the year before.


Fringe events being hosted at the conference this morning included a discussion on "Working your way out of poverty"
Small business minister Kelly Tolhurst and Tory London Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey were both expected to attend the event.
Another event, to which a senior cabinet minister was said to be invited, was to discuss "saving lives by ending rough sleeping."

Former deputy PM Damian Green and Care Minister Caroline Dineage were expected to discuss solving the social care crisis at another event.
And another fringe discussion was entitled: "Could low-income voters hold the key to the next election."


It's thought the Champagne is set to be handed out to cabinet ministers, MPs and party members at a glittering party hosted by the Spectator magazine, of which Boris Johnson was formerly editor.

Literally couldn’t make this up... What a bunch of *****.

You do know that's this is not unusual?

I've been to labour conferences where champagne was served, are we just getting outraged at any random thing nowadays?

Well this is a touch awkward now isnt it? At least they have taste though, even if i am more partial to a Bollinger

I think it's more the irony of the article. Whoever's in charge of PR for Boris should be hauled over the coals for this. At a conference discussing poverty and you allow champagne to be photographed and published. It's just laughable. I have no problem with it being a regular thing, I have a problem with the irony of it.

Not really. Shaming people with money to go without luxuries will just make unemployment and poverty worse.

That's not to say there isn't a case to tax the rich more if the market continues to fail to constrain a widening gulf between rich and poor that is in no way correlated to who is working hard and who isn't. However, we need to focus on that rather than whether or not people are drinking fizzy plonk.

People have champagne at a conference, not really news is it?

You do know that's this is not unusual?

I've been to labour conferences where champagne was served, are we just getting outraged at any random thing nowadays?

Well personally i just enjoy seeing the fireworks but then again it is 2019 and all that, i believe its par for the course to get uppity about minor things isnt it?

Well this is a touch awkward now isnt it? At least they have taste though, even if i am more partial to a Bollinger

I've been to labour conferences where champagne was served,

I'm sick of being called a champagne socialist just because I have worked and a massed some small wealth.

The idea we should all have too sit around dressed in steptoe and son rags

and drinking tap water to discuss the poor and what's best for the majority of the counties working people, is flawed and ridiculous.

Well this is a touch awkward now isnt it? At least they have taste though, even if i am more partial to a Bollinger

Feel like this one story kind of epitomises the entire Conservative Party. One rule for them and their rich mates, another for everyone else.

Wasn't it you complaining about Eastern European immigrants making it difficult for you to find fruit picking jobs? (We're going back some way now so you may not remember what stories you have told in the past)

I've looked them up and they weren't poor and didn't dress in rags. They were scrap dealers, a very lucrative profession. Did you assume because their work clothes were dirty that they were poor? How elitist!


Ah, a good opportunity to explain "straw man" to you.
No one is saying that those with power and wealth should not enjoy their benefits. The argument is that the board should not arrive at a meeting with workers to discuss pay cuts and job losses in brand new Bentleys (to give an example). They may have the new Bentley, and they may even be able to justify it to themselves, but it is simply wrong on every level to throw P45s out of the window as they drive past, quaffing champagne while laughing and shouting "get a job, pleb" (which I admit is verging into reductio ad absurdam territory).

I think it's more the irony of the article. Whoever's in charge of PR for Boris should be hauled over the coals for this. At a conference discussing poverty and you allow champagne to be photographed and published. It's just laughable. I have no problem with it being a regular thing, I have a problem with the irony of it.

That's just litterally a load of nonsense, for clairy the story about me being a fruit picker or wanting to be a fruit picker is a lie, you are getting quite good at lying. I confirm I have never been a fruit picker and whatever point I was making (if the conversation ever existed) had nothing to do with my career.

Try watching the programme and you will see what I meant, rather than trying to 'win' a virtual fight I'm not trying to have.