Saturday 10 November 2007

Holyrood Spring.


Fresh from revelations about the usage of bottled water by the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government it would appear that some MSPs have had the bright idea of bottling their own Holyrood Spring water.

"SCOTTISH Parliament bosses today described how they could set up their own water bottling plant at Holyrood in a bid to become more environmentally friendly. The parliament supplies up to 600 bottles of water a week for MSPs at committees and in the debating chamber. Tory MSP Alex Johnstone, of the cross-party Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, said the volume was "relatively small" but the parliament wanted to do what it could to minimise the environmental impact, and he said they were investigating the possibility of bottling filtered tap water on site."

Now is Mr Smith alone in thinking that letting a load of MSPs loose with bottling equipment in the £420 million Scottish Parliament really probably isn't a good idea given their history of messing things up: the Parliament shop that loses money; the Parliament restaurant and bar that loses money ... Surely it would be easier to just use regular tap water (decanted from jugs)?

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