Paying Gordon Brown £70k a speech
Posted by Christie Malry on May 23, 2010 at 8:01 pm
GMHuman forwards me the following interesting question:
RT @mattrcb: Seriously who would pay £70k to hear Gordon Brown speak? http://j.mp/aKNiQo << rich massochists
From National Statistics we learn that the national debt in 1997 was approximately £350bn and that by 2010 it had risen to about £850bn, an increase of £500bn in 13 years.
This works out at £38bn a year, or £73,000 a minute.
That's right, as a result of Gordon Brown we have increased our debt by £73,000 for every minute of his wretched rule as Chancellor and PM.
I trust that the quoted after-dinner speaking fee is for rather more than sixty seconds. He owes us.
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