MEPs can swig champagne and whisky at their desks thanks to booze delivery service
They also enjoy slap-up meals like lobster and guinea fowl in their private dining rooms
WHEN you can order cases of champagne and scotch to your desk at the taxpayers' expense, it is no wonder some UK MEPs are desperate to stay in the EU.
European Parliament lavishes its elected members with a boutique booze delivery service alongside slap-up meals in restaurants reserved just for them.
The only catch? They need a minion with the know-how to work ancient fax machines to send off for their choice of tipple for that day.
All 751 MEPs can use their £243 daily subsistence allowance to stock their office booze trolleys, with six bottles of champagne costing £149 and three bottles of 10-year-old Islay single malt setting them back £103.
Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott attacked the eurocrats for blowing UK taxpayer cash to feed their luxury lifestyles.
He told the : “This is literally the gravy train that the £350 million a week we send to Brussels is paying for.
“If we weren’t paying for the fine dining and extravagant cuisine of MEPs we would have more money to spend on our priories like the NHS.
“‘Too many in Brussels seem more concerned with their lunch menu than they are with dealing with the challenges the EU is incapable of solving.
“If we want to take back control of our borders, economy and democracy we have to Vote Leave on 23 June.”
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A leaked menu reveals MEPs can also enjoy extravagant meals like guinea fowl and lobster tempura with asparagus foam in private dining rooms at one of European Parliament's two sites.
A European Parliament spokesman said: “As MEPs work in another country than their own and cannot be at home to sleep or cook, they need a per diem to pay for accommodation and meals when in Brussels or Strasbourg for their work.
“All meals [served in European Parliament catering outlets] need to be paid for – they are not subsidised by the Parliament since it changed contracts last year.”
Around half of the UK’s MEPs, who pocket a £75k salary a year, are voting to Remain. Around half of the Tory MEPs and all of Ukip’s MEPs have declared they will vote out.