Members of Parliament in Coke habit shocker
February 1st, 2006 at 16:25
A while back now I e-mailed every single member of Parliament and asked them if they prefer CocaCola, or its age old rival, Pepsi. Cleverly, I’d written a script that sent e-mails that look personal but wern’t- it just put their name in the relevant places.
I’ve now got 44 responses, and I think that’s enough for me to draw some exciting conclusions.
It appears MPs love doing Coke as much as I do- statistically, and this is absolutely true: Eight out of ten Members of Parliament prefer CocaCola to the closest leading competitor.
What I find most odd is that loads of MPs specifically identified Diet Coke as their preferred choice… does it taste different in the palace of Westminster or something? It’s vile. Quite why Boris, among others like it is beyond me.
Among other celebrity responses: former foreign-secretary Malcolm Rifkind is a full-strength Coke man. We should have perhaps predicted that former Lib Dem home-affairs (!) spokesman Mark Oaten was gay… he drinks DIET Coke. I wonder what he was doing on his “Diet Coke break” etc etc.
Interestingly, Edward Davey, the man who sort of led the rebellion against Charles Kennedy, drinks Pepsi, whilst the rest of his party are apparently staunch Coke people. Was this what caused the rift? Was it a drink problem?
No one really interesting from the Labour party responded- presumably they were too busy governing to answer an inconsequential (if revealing) survey.
I’ve posted the full set of results as a page, so you can see what your MP drinks!
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