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Brown earns £60K for 50-minute speech... about the economic crisis

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  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,737 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    More fool the tw4ts that paid to listen to him.... I bet they think they're clever.

    They probably wanted an important ex-political figure as an after dinner speaker. However with people like Blair and Clinton being more expensive and having to be booked months in advance they were stuck with Brown.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    edited 21 November 2010 at 3:12PM
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    To be fair on him, he is worth the money, after all he did save the world.


    No..... I believe that was James Blunt. ;)
    Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

    ......
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    halight wrote: »
    Brown earns £60K for 50-minute speech... about the economic crisis

    Good work if you can get it.



    Mmmm! Perhaps that was his ploy all along. Set it up in the first place and later on make pots of money telling us how to avoid the next one, !!!!!!.... :mad:
    He gave a 50-minute speech on the global economic crisis and how to prevent another one, which is estimated to have earned him around £1,200 per minute.

  • FATBALLZ
    FATBALLZ Posts: 5,146 Forumite
    Oh I get it now, this is why he !!!!ed our economy, so he could make a killing doing lectures about it afterwards. He's not as stupid as he looks.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    FATBALLZ wrote: »
    Oh I get it now, this is why he !!!!ed our economy, so he could make a killing doing lectures about it afterwards. He's not as stupid as he looks.


    Just beat you, by one minute, to that realisation Fatballz. :D
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    FATBALLZ wrote: »
    He's not as stupid as he looks.
    That'd be a feat in itself. He does look like he's stupid.
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    No..... I believe that was James Blunt. ;)

    I've always thought Brown is something of a 'James Blunt' ;)
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    Wheras I just think he's a C*nt.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Wheras I just think he's a C*nt.

    Why would he be a Cent?
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