Reply to: Cease and desist

[vetran]

Doesn't matter Reform have 180,000 members.

[DoctorStrangelove]

You can't buy a better motor oil.

Jeremy Hunt, on the other, not so much.

[vetran]

Dig only a tiny bit deeper and you find that actually he wasn't that great a commodities trader and his success was that he was good at persuading people to invest in his less than stellar ventures.

Personally, I'd much prefer to be governed by people who've done jobs that help people than those whose sole motive was to enrich themselves. There's a greater likelihood that they'll make decisions that are genuinely intended to benefit the country as a whole, not just themselves and their wealthy chums or backers.

Oddly he was employed by plenty of reasonable companies and made a few quid without any shock exposes.
Best they have managed was is his ex wife was German..

I love this idea that only the truly saintly can possibly run a government fairly, Jeremy Hunt was hated by the left when he tried to fix the NHS. Starmer is in the middle of a mess of his own making, Angela claimer has honesty issues with her CV etc. I assume you loved Maggie who truly believed and walked the walk.

[malvolio]

Good luck with that one, Comrade!

It's not that hard. Make 40 the minimum age to apply to be an MP. It would greatly increase the chances of someone having had a real job first...

Although of course, as long as being a political advisor is a "real" job, perhaps it wouldn't help that much!

[Zigenare]

Dig only a tiny bit deeper and you find that actually he wasn't that great a commodities trader and his success was that he was good at persuading people to invest in his less than stellar ventures.

Personally, I'd much prefer to be governed by people who've done jobs that help people than those whose sole motive was to enrich themselves. There's a greater likelihood that they'll make decisions that are genuinely intended to benefit the country as a whole, not just themselves and their wealthy chums or backers.

Good luck with that one, Comrade!

[Snooky]

Be glad that someone more experienced in commerce than a failed lying bank teller or an incompetent human rights lawyer got in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage

Dig only a tiny bit deeper and you find that actually he wasn't that great a commodities trader and his success was that he was good at persuading people to invest in his less than stellar ventures.

Personally, I'd much prefer to be governed by people who've done jobs that help people than those whose sole motive was to enrich themselves. There's a greater likelihood that they'll make decisions that are genuinely intended to benefit the country as a whole, not just themselves and their wealthy chums or backers.

[vetran]

Imagine what the markets would do if Farage's lot ever got in.

Be glad that someone more experienced in commerce than a failed lying bank teller or an incompetent human rights lawyer got in?

After leaving school in 1982, Farage obtained employment in the City of London, trading commodities at the London Metal Exchange.^[24] Initially, he joined the American commodity operation of brokerage firm Drexel Burnham Lambert,^[26] transferring to Crédit Lyonnais Rouse in 1986.^[26] He joined Refco in 1994, and Natixis Metals in 2003.^[26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage

[sadkingbilly]

So the Bank of England is running the UK.

Comfortable, that tin foil hat?

it's the tinfoil pants he has trouble with

[woody1]

They had to as the financial markets panicked due to the unfunded mini budget.

Imagine what the markets would do if Farage's lot ever got in.

[SueEllen]

I had a little lookie into after dinner speakers fees.

Truss is charging this much.

https://gothamartists.com/liz-truss/

(Venus Williams costs more.)

Other former politicians are with a different agency who charge a lot less but I know that they actually get bookings.

I do hope Truss takes someone to court. It would be like Wagatha Christie again but with a lettuce standing in for Truss.

[Eirikur]

That was the Bank of England not taking action in time. Deliberately. In order to get their man Rishi into power.

They had to as the financial markets panicked due to the unfunded mini budget.

[vetran]

wasn't Kwasi then chancellor?

[Fraidycat]

She did cause the mortgage intrest rates to go up with her mini budget

That was the Bank of England not taking action in time. Deliberately. In order to get their man Rishi into power.

[Eirikur]

Tobe fair I don't think she was in long enough to crash the economy but that's hardly a shining argument.

She did cause the mortgage intrest rates to go up with her mini budget

[northernladuk]

Tobe fair I don't think she was in long enough to crash the economy but that's hardly a shining argument.