For those of you who missed Wretchard‘s link to the G8 dinner menu, here are some of the money lines:
The Prime Minister [Gordon Brown] was served 24 different dishes during his first day at the summit – just hours after urging the world to reduce the “unnecessary demand” for food and calling on British families to cut back on their wasteful use of food.
The dinner consisted of 18 dishes in eight courses including caviar, smoked salmon, Kyoto beef and a “G8 fantasy dessert”.
The banquet was accompanied by five different wines from around the world including champagne, a French Bourgogne and sake.
The dinner came just hours after a “working lunch” consisting of six courses including white asparagus and truffle soup, crab and a supreme of chicken.
Mr Brown arrived at the G8 summit held on the holiday island of Hokkaido in northern Japan on Monday morning.
He arrived on a plane chartered from Texas, America, which had to fly empty for thousands of miles to pick up the Prime Minister and his entourage.
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Flying empty planes around the world to attend crisis summits. Sounds a lot like that Bali climate change summit where they didn’t have enough room to park all the private jets.
Isn’t hypocrisy on this sort of scale supposed to earn people lightning bolts and stuff?
