Charlie StrossLiz Truss paid £15,770 an hour for second jobs - as outside earnings of MPs revealed
In what mad universe is a politician so incompetent they nearly destroyed the pension system in less than two months worth a salary that works out at £32M a year?!?
Simon Hain@cstross Maybe if you are a company destroying the pension system?
Dreadnought Holiday@cstross if we'd paid her that rate to do absolutely nothing in her two months in office we'd be billions ahead, so I can see how it might work...
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@cstross
It's not even as though the money is to buy influence. Surely she has no influence, right?
Besides, is there anyone whose ear is worth £15k to whisper into for an hour, who you'd want to be accessing by playing a game of whispers via Liz Fucking Truss?
I think some people have way more money than sense, and they enjoy playing at Being Rich People by very aggressively not caring about value for money.
@petealexharris Truss *is* in tight with the Tufty Club and the Tufty Club has Tories on all its tentacle tips (and quite a few Labour front benchers too) as well as famously opaque funding from non-dom billionaires.
@cstross
Actually, yeah, maybe it's shrewd to have your go-between for sinister machinations be too thick to understand what's going on.
Actually, yeah, maybe it's shrewd to have your go-between for sinister machinations be too thick to understand what's going on.
random thoughts@cstross So, India just sent something to the moon for £58M, so almost for the price of two Liz Trusses, we can send her there too.
I think that's something we can afford.
Axel Foley@hittitezombie @cstross Don't we (the UK) still give India Foreign Aid ?
@Roadwarrior29 @cstross This launch is relatively cheap compared to the effort. Also it's an investment for the future tech industry, also it's a big country. Finally we should be able to afford the foreign aid, or could before Brexit.
@Roadwarrior29 @hittitezombie Direct financial aid to the Indian government ended in 2015. The budget for "aid" since then has diminished and is now basically a subsidy for British exports.
Mei Lin@hittitezombie @cstross
Didn't they send something to Mars at around that price point a few years ago?
Didn't they send something to Mars at around that price point a few years ago?
FlorianTischner
Killa Koala@hittitezombie Until recently you could have sent her to the Titanic for like £200,000.
Rik M@hittitezombie @cstross
Surely, we don't need to send her all the way...? Just anywhere out of the atmosphere will do
Surely, we don't need to send her all the way...? Just anywhere out of the atmosphere will do
CheDN@cstross Like rust, grift never sleeps.
Daily Grail@cstross It doesn't take a mad universe...just a corrupt one.
poisonwomb@cstross it makes more sense when you realise ‘speaking fees’ is a typo, it’s meant to be spelled ‘B-R-I-B-E’
Not The LBC Guy@cstross from each according to their incompetence; to each according to their contact list