I personally am starting to find this career path from politician to distuigished speaker and author quite irritating.
TB,Mandelson and now Brown all releasing books and getting paid stupid money to give public speeches.
Which is going to make them very rich, which means they will have more money to roam the world giving speeches and write books.
So what do a fly by night snake oil salesman, a thrice disgraced public servant and a dictatorial control freak have in common?
They have all become authors and are all public speakers and are set to do very well out of it.
Scepticism aside, are these men worth listening to? Do they have wisdom and intellect that now that they dont have demands of power, is worth taking note of? Does the fact that they have held high office mean that whatever they say is worth paying 6 figures for?
I personally would welcome the old days, when politicians who fell out of favour where grusomely tortured and executed publically. Bit of bloodletting and we all move on. Certainly would be more entertaining than reading Browns memoirs
TB,Mandelson and now Brown all releasing books and getting paid stupid money to give public speeches.
Which is going to make them very rich, which means they will have more money to roam the world giving speeches and write books.
So what do a fly by night snake oil salesman, a thrice disgraced public servant and a dictatorial control freak have in common?
They have all become authors and are all public speakers and are set to do very well out of it.
Scepticism aside, are these men worth listening to? Do they have wisdom and intellect that now that they dont have demands of power, is worth taking note of? Does the fact that they have held high office mean that whatever they say is worth paying 6 figures for?
I personally would welcome the old days, when politicians who fell out of favour where grusomely tortured and executed publically. Bit of bloodletting and we all move on. Certainly would be more entertaining than reading Browns memoirs
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