Labour MPs in champagne drinking competition

By Caroline Gammell Published: 10:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Labour MPs in "champagne celebration competition"

Bill Etherington drank so most at the Council of Europe accepting that he upheld out and was ill whilst seated at an losses paid cooking for representatives from twenty countries.

Geraldine Smith - the alternative MP concerned - told yesterday how she poured her drinks a flowering plant pot as she pounded the "macho" enlightenment of celebration between associate MPs.

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The situation was highlighted in a book by Paul Flynn, a backbench Labour MP for Newport.

He pronounced the celebration foe took place at a accepting in the Bois de Boulogne, a play ground in the city, and left one MP utterly doubtful as he had not beheld the alternative MP was "cheating" by not drinking.

"One had used up a nearby fatal peculiarity of alcohol," Mr Flynn wrote in his book The Unusual Suspect, being serialised in a Sunday newspaper.

"He was placed on the tip list where he babbled incoherently. The repute of the British is still shop-worn by this situation and it happened a decade ago.

"It was not the stupid foe or the wild inebriation that left an memorable memory. It was the arrangement of missile queasiness opposite the tip table.

"The MP afterwards slipped in to unconsciousness. A alloy was called. The studious was widespread eagled on a cot in an adjoining room with electrodes trustworthy to his chest.

"To this day, he says he has no mental recall of the incident."

Miss Smith, MP for Morecambe, pronounced she refused to take piece in the foe and poured her drinks away.

"It is not the initial time men have attempted to manipulate women with a drink, but I wouldnt have a splash if I dont wish to," she said. "I have never been dipsomaniac in my hold up in parliament.

"I did flow drinks away, but it is not surprising for that to occur in sure amicable situations.

"It is a little macho thing for a man to think he is carrying a little macho celebration foe but I positively dont."

Miss Smith pronounced champagne and white booze were used up but that she accepted Mr Etherington, MP for Sunderland North, might have had a heart complaint that is because he was so ill.

"I dont repudiate that Bill Etherington had as well most to splash that night. In integrity to him, he is not the usually MP who had as well most to splash on that occasion."