It now emerges that our former Prime Minister is to be paid $5 million per year for his part time job with US investment bank JP Morgan. For this price the senior management at the firm will get the chance to meet him around four times a year to listen to his opinions on “world affairs”.
With both parties being coy about the exact amount and what the bank are getting for their money it is pretty hard to be definitive about what is going on.
Since leaving office he has “earned” £500,000 from lectures and a £5 million advance on his memoirs so he is in no way short of a bob or two. But I hear you say, the poor man has a £3.5 million mortgage on his mansion in London and a further £500,000 on two flats in Bristoi, not to mention the wife and kids to support.
All politicians leave me with a bad taste in the mouth, they get elected on promises about only wanting to serve the people but then they start to cash in with lucrative directorships, or consultancy roles either while still in office or after their departure.
What is the world needs is more Anarchism which is defined as “a doctrine urging the abolition of government or governmental restraint as the indispensable condition for full social and political liberty.”
Not convinced that it would work but it has got to be worth a try given what we all have to endure today.
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Reminds me of the Crass lyric I was just thinking of the other day:
"If there were no government
wouldn't there be chaos?
People running round the place
setting petrol bombs off.
What if I told you to fuck off?"
It makes me laugh, anyway. In the end, a sense of humour is about the best we can manage, but most of the time, it's just infuriating. I believe some folks go into politics of pure motivations, but I believe few emerge un-slimed from having traversed the morass. Effing evil, most of them, and morally bankrupt. They begin to see themselves as above the law, and above morals that apply to everyone else. Obscene, people behaving like that.
Phlegmmy, I am with you all the way on this one sister - forgot to throw in a rant about their lack of morals.
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