How much should you get paid for failure?

[bobjimwilly]

£800,000 apparently...

"A no-deal Brexit will not trouble David Cameron who pocketed almost £800,000 within a year of quitting as Prime Minister.

The ex-Tory leader has filed the first set of accounts for the firm through which he channels his earnings.

They reveal that as of last April, the Office of David Cameron Limited had £627,227 in cash and £119,395 in 'other investments’."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-pocketed-800000-within-13923919

[Donnywolf]

.. and dont forget he always said he should be "ok" in retirement as his Wife Sam Cam has a field she tells me somewhere near Scunthorpe

Yes Normanby Park is some field

[drfchound]

But let’s not mention his voluntary work for the Alzheimer’s Society.
I guess he will pay his taxes as well.

[bahrain rover]

And Sutton Park Wolfie.

[redwine]

But let’s not mention his voluntary work for the Alzheimer’s Society.
I guess he will pay his taxes as well.

We would all like to do voluntary work however some of us are so knackered from having to work to provide for our families that we have neither the time or energy. We can't all pull our trotters up.

[roversdude]

Why did he fail ? He jumped ship before he could fail

[Boomstick]

So name me an x pm who doesn't make money from giving speeches.
The war criminal Tony Bliar makes shed loads from it

[drfchound]

But let’s not mention his voluntary work for the Alzheimer’s Society.
I guess he will pay his taxes as well.

We would all like to do voluntary work however some of us are so knackered from having to work to provide for our families that we have neither the time or energy. We can't all pull our trotters up.

That is as maybe, however he should get some credit for his help in trying to find a cure for that dreadful disease.

[BillyStubbsTears]

So name me an x pm who doesn't make money from giving speeches.
The war criminal Tony Bliar makes shed loads from it

Gordon Brown.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Let's weigh it up Hound.

One the one hand, f**ked the economy through Austerity, then threw up into a socio-economic-political crisis of historic proportions through a catastrophic misjudgement, then f**ked off.

On the other hand, does a bit of charity work in between earning 30-odd times the national average through a few consultancies and lectures.

You judge.

[drfchound]

Maybe he should pack it all in then and not offer any help.


Do I smell a touch of jealousy over the amount of money he earns?

[BillyStubbsTears]

No Hound. Not in the slightest. Because I haven't got the least interest in earning that sort of money. I'm perfectly comfortable thank you, and have turned down an offer of serious 6 figure annual salary because it would have meant shitting on my colleagues and giving up a job from which I get ample pay and a lot of satisfaction.

What you might get a whiff of is incandescent rage that the second worst PM in the past 150 years, who tipped us into this shitstorm then ran away, has the gall to so much as come out of his front door. If people want to pour money into his pockets for his advice, given his track record, then more bloody fool them. If he's so lacking in self-awareness as to accept it, then he's as much of a t**t as I'd always assumed.

[RobTheRover]

But, he's a tory, Billy. We know they have no shame.