A touching story from the National Lottery. Some poor, hapless, downtrodden office workers have been given the liberating chance of having yoga classes and going for walks at lunchtime. Hurrah! They work for a small northern sporting outfit and have been given £30,000 from the lottery to fund their activities. And which beleagured sporting outfit might I be talking about? Accrington Stanley? Whitby Town? Ilkley Moor Rangers? Nope. Manchester Fucking United. The richest soccer club in the world. I ask you. Another 30,000 reasons why I don't buy a lottery ticket anymore.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Another 30,000 Reasons to Boycott the National Lottery
A touching story from the National Lottery. Some poor, hapless, downtrodden office workers have been given the liberating chance of having yoga classes and going for walks at lunchtime. Hurrah! They work for a small northern sporting outfit and have been given £30,000 from the lottery to fund their activities. And which beleagured sporting outfit might I be talking about? Accrington Stanley? Whitby Town? Ilkley Moor Rangers? Nope. Manchester Fucking United. The richest soccer club in the world. I ask you. Another 30,000 reasons why I don't buy a lottery ticket anymore.
Your voting list is impinging on the column texts and makes them difficult to read
ReplyDeleteSecond-richest club in the world...don't build them up any more than we have to!
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if I can apply for my gym fees to be paid too, surely dedicated bloggers, journalists and Tory press officers are entitled to the same generosity and a little bit of pampering.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm at it, I could send them my hairdressing bill as well!
By the way, hope you are enjoying Andrew Marr's book, it's a great read and we seemed to share similar experiences going back to the hot metal press days - and every news room I worked in seemed to have a Glaswegian news editor, strange that.
I bumped into AM during the election campaign last year and he signed my copy.
I see Nigel Evans has (quite rightly) slagged this off. I assume its the funding organisations as opposed to Camelot who have allowed this to happen? I also read that Coronation Street have also received cash for fitness classes. Great to see its those groups who could really benefit from the cash who are getting it!!!
ReplyDeleteno it doesn't.get some glasses!
ReplyDeleteas for the £30,000,that's jsut unbelievable.it's three days wages for Rooney.
Is it significant that Alec 'Taggart' Ferguson is a know Labour groupie?
ReplyDeleteWhat a hypocrite Nigel Evans is ? I wonder if he has ever used the House of Commons gym paid for by taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteLets lose the subsidised bars and restaurants in parliament as well.
MP's can afford to pay their own way. We have a choice over whether or not to buy lottery tickets, not whether we pay taxes to pay for even more MP's perks.
Of course it's the funding organisations who are responsible, in this case Sport England or something. They could do with some brain fitness sessions themselves. Camelot just raise the money but don't have any say on how it's spent.
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