MPs’ Employees Indignant at Queuing Like Everybody Else for Queen’s Mendacity-in-State
The parliamentary staffer squabble over the Queen’s Mendacity-in-State is about to worsen. Regardless of rumours that Commons Chief Penny Mordaunt is reviewing the choice to ban MPs’ staffers from skipping the queue, a brand new announcement on the parliamentary intranet reveals those that have already got precedence entry – together with gray passholders similar to cleaners and cooks – are actually even allowed to ask a visitor as they pay their respects:
MPs and Lords are entitled to as much as 4 visitors; gray passholders are allowed one. Staffers, a lot of whom have a not dissimilar sense of entitlement, should queue up for 20 hours like everybody else. Until they make mates with a precedence attendee fairly shortly…
