Last Night at the Lion
Well wonks and wonkettes, hacks and bag carriers, lobbyists and bloggers, it's time to give Westminster's finest watering hole the send off it deserves. The dingy dark corners just right for plotting and gossiping will never be the same again.
So one last night at the Lion it is
.Be there on Friday 5th March after work. Peanuts optional.
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I wish I could be there. That pub seems like a pub should be, full of people enjoying themselves and putting the world to rights...will I be able to smoke when the pub is refurbished? No, thought not. Still, wish I could be there.
As a deeply concerned member of the Red Lion's loyal bar-propper-uppers brigade I, of course, enquired into the details of the planned refurbishment. I have managed to ascertain the following details from a member of the bar staff; the soft furnishings are to be deep cleaned (probably to get the ZaNuLiebor stench and slime out of them prior to, hopefully, a new breed of political animal taking up residence soon after May 6), the bar is to be re-varnished and some of the paintwork is to be re-done. A hot food bar will be added to the main bar area, apparently where the current kitchen area is.
I have had a guarantee that hot milk (brandy optional) will still be available to those seeking the nursery comforts of the House during recess.
All in all I think the refurbishment may be less of a tragedy than we at first imagined. Well I hope it is at least!