Who cost us hundreds of billions and now earns £15500 a hour
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Yes that’s right folks, Gordoom "Winky" Brown, the man responsible for amongst other things, the UK government spending around £170,000,000,000 more than it collects every single year just to stand still, has earned almost £250,000 in the past 3 months from spreading his lies to other countries. . . . . . Yet the w
ker and the rest of the traitorous incompetents in the labour party still claim that city bonuses are obscene.
I’m sure the millions of people who are suffering directly because of HIS “financial genius” would love to be earning a tiny fraction of the amount this hypocritical sack of ste is. . . . . . . . . I'm sure the thick fkers who voted for him as their MP are thankfull he's never around to represent them!
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/...
As the story is in the times . . . . a C&P of the article
He may have been the “invisible man” at Westminster since leaving Downing Street, but Gordon Brown’s globetrotting has helped him quietly earn £250,000 in just three months.
Despite his low profile in Britain, speeches on the international lecture circuit, an honorary post at a university in New York and a book deal have recently enabled the former prime minister to generate a small fortune.
Brown’s overseas commitments mean he has also clocked up nearly £45,000 in air fares with his staff — most of them in business class — since exiting No 10 nine months ago.
One speech last autumn in Lagos, Nigeria, which Brown claims involved four hours’ work, secured him £62,181 — that is £15,545 an hour and just £3,557 less than the sum he receives annually as a backbench MP.
Another speech delivered in Delhi in November, which he says involved the equivalent of two-and-a-half hours’ work, paid £37,047. On that occasion, he addressed his Indian audience for 50 minutes — meaning that he earned about £741 for each minute he spoke.
Details of both talks, which centred on the world’s faltering economy, are in the latest Commons register of interests. One speech last autumn in Lagos, Nigeria, which Brown claims involved four hours’ work, secured £62,181
Like Tony Blair, Brown, 59, is understood to be keen to build a speech-making career and has plans to carry on with this lucrative avenue of work this year. However, he has little chance of rivalling the earnings of his predecessor. Blair is the world’s highest-paid public speaker and was given almost £400,000 for two 30-minute lectures in the Philippines in 2009.
Blair’s earnings are estimated at more than £12m a year and he has suggested his annual staff bill alone is £5m. This weekend it emerged that employee costs for his Faith Foundation were more than £1m in the year to April 2010, with two staff members getting in excess of £110,000 each.
The charity received £3.67m in donations over the same period — £130,000 more than in 2009. New parliamentary records reveal for the first time the amount Brown was paid for writing his latest book, Beyond the Crash. The proceeds of the book, which tackles the global economic crisis, will be given to charity.
In a deal brokered by Sterling Lord Literistic Inc, Brown’s New York literary agency, the publisher Simon and Schuster has so far handed over a “signature and delivery” fee of £78,290 to the former prime minister. Royalty payments are expected to follow.
The latest figures show the book has sold 11,500 copies in Britain, generating cover price revenue of £145,000, and 2,400 copies in America, where it is published by Simon and Schuster’s academic imprint, Free Press.
Brown’s other significant source of income is from New York University (NYU). Last month he was appointed its inaugural “distinguished global leader in residence”.
He has been paid £71,544 for agreeing to spend two weeks a year attending and addressing public functions at the university’s New York campus, as well as one week in Abu Dhabi, and a week at one of 12 “study-abroad” sites.
Brown does not teach or lecture, but in November he was flown to the university’s campus in Florence, Italy, to attend a two-day symposium entitled Politics 2010: America and the World.
Described as the jewel in the university’s crown, the campus was bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton, the Anglo-Italian writer, and consists of five historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves.
As a visiting fellow of Harvard University, Brown has twice visited the Massachusetts campus since November. Accommodation and air fares for the trips came to more than £13,500.
Despite spending so much time abroad — he waited until last November to make his first Commons speech since defeat at the general election — Brown still earns £65,738 a year as an MP and was entitled to a tax-free ministerial severance payment of about £20,000 on leaving office.
He is also in line for two pensions — one for being a Fife MP since 1983; the other for being a cabinet minister for 13 years.
Like all former prime ministers, Brown is entitled to a chauffeur-driven car and 24-hour security.
According to his entry in the Commons register, the bulk of the money he has made since leaving office will be kept by the “Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown, for the employment of staff to support my ongoing involvement in public life”.
This organisation, which has offices in the City of London, aims to “campaign for jobs and justice” in Britain and abroad.
Brown’s decision to give the proceeds of his new book to charity was announced by his publisher last July. Blair, by contrast, waited until less than a month before publication of his memoirs, A Journey, to make it known he was giving the multi-million-pound profits to the Royal British Legion.
Money spinners
High earning speeches:
Brown £741 a minute (Delhi, 2010)
Blair £6,667 a minute (Manila, 2009)
Jobs for the boys
Brown £71,544 a year at New York University
Blair £2.5m a year at JP Morgan investment bank
Battle of the books
Brown’s Beyond the Crash £78,290 advance Sales: 11,500 (UK) Proceeds: to charity
Blair’s A Journey £4.6m advance Sales: 305,000 (UK) Proceeds: British Legion
ker and the rest of the traitorous incompetents in the labour party still claim that city bonuses are obscene.I’m sure the millions of people who are suffering directly because of HIS “financial genius” would love to be earning a tiny fraction of the amount this hypocritical sack of s
te is. . . . . . . . . I'm sure the thick fkers who voted for him as their MP are thankfull he's never around to represent them!http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/...
As the story is in the times . . . . a C&P of the article
He may have been the “invisible man” at Westminster since leaving Downing Street, but Gordon Brown’s globetrotting has helped him quietly earn £250,000 in just three months.
Despite his low profile in Britain, speeches on the international lecture circuit, an honorary post at a university in New York and a book deal have recently enabled the former prime minister to generate a small fortune.
Brown’s overseas commitments mean he has also clocked up nearly £45,000 in air fares with his staff — most of them in business class — since exiting No 10 nine months ago.
One speech last autumn in Lagos, Nigeria, which Brown claims involved four hours’ work, secured him £62,181 — that is £15,545 an hour and just £3,557 less than the sum he receives annually as a backbench MP.
Another speech delivered in Delhi in November, which he says involved the equivalent of two-and-a-half hours’ work, paid £37,047. On that occasion, he addressed his Indian audience for 50 minutes — meaning that he earned about £741 for each minute he spoke.
Details of both talks, which centred on the world’s faltering economy, are in the latest Commons register of interests. One speech last autumn in Lagos, Nigeria, which Brown claims involved four hours’ work, secured £62,181
Like Tony Blair, Brown, 59, is understood to be keen to build a speech-making career and has plans to carry on with this lucrative avenue of work this year. However, he has little chance of rivalling the earnings of his predecessor. Blair is the world’s highest-paid public speaker and was given almost £400,000 for two 30-minute lectures in the Philippines in 2009.
Blair’s earnings are estimated at more than £12m a year and he has suggested his annual staff bill alone is £5m. This weekend it emerged that employee costs for his Faith Foundation were more than £1m in the year to April 2010, with two staff members getting in excess of £110,000 each.
The charity received £3.67m in donations over the same period — £130,000 more than in 2009. New parliamentary records reveal for the first time the amount Brown was paid for writing his latest book, Beyond the Crash. The proceeds of the book, which tackles the global economic crisis, will be given to charity.
In a deal brokered by Sterling Lord Literistic Inc, Brown’s New York literary agency, the publisher Simon and Schuster has so far handed over a “signature and delivery” fee of £78,290 to the former prime minister. Royalty payments are expected to follow.
The latest figures show the book has sold 11,500 copies in Britain, generating cover price revenue of £145,000, and 2,400 copies in America, where it is published by Simon and Schuster’s academic imprint, Free Press.
Brown’s other significant source of income is from New York University (NYU). Last month he was appointed its inaugural “distinguished global leader in residence”.
He has been paid £71,544 for agreeing to spend two weeks a year attending and addressing public functions at the university’s New York campus, as well as one week in Abu Dhabi, and a week at one of 12 “study-abroad” sites.
Brown does not teach or lecture, but in November he was flown to the university’s campus in Florence, Italy, to attend a two-day symposium entitled Politics 2010: America and the World.
Described as the jewel in the university’s crown, the campus was bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton, the Anglo-Italian writer, and consists of five historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves.
As a visiting fellow of Harvard University, Brown has twice visited the Massachusetts campus since November. Accommodation and air fares for the trips came to more than £13,500.
Despite spending so much time abroad — he waited until last November to make his first Commons speech since defeat at the general election — Brown still earns £65,738 a year as an MP and was entitled to a tax-free ministerial severance payment of about £20,000 on leaving office.
He is also in line for two pensions — one for being a Fife MP since 1983; the other for being a cabinet minister for 13 years.
Like all former prime ministers, Brown is entitled to a chauffeur-driven car and 24-hour security.
According to his entry in the Commons register, the bulk of the money he has made since leaving office will be kept by the “Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown, for the employment of staff to support my ongoing involvement in public life”.
This organisation, which has offices in the City of London, aims to “campaign for jobs and justice” in Britain and abroad.
Brown’s decision to give the proceeds of his new book to charity was announced by his publisher last July. Blair, by contrast, waited until less than a month before publication of his memoirs, A Journey, to make it known he was giving the multi-million-pound profits to the Royal British Legion.
Money spinners
High earning speeches:
Brown £741 a minute (Delhi, 2010)
Blair £6,667 a minute (Manila, 2009)
Jobs for the boys
Brown £71,544 a year at New York University
Blair £2.5m a year at JP Morgan investment bank
Battle of the books
Brown’s Beyond the Crash £78,290 advance Sales: 11,500 (UK) Proceeds: to charity
Blair’s A Journey £4.6m advance Sales: 305,000 (UK) Proceeds: British Legion
I think it was Thatcher who said that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.He has the audacity to call Cameron a rich toff. To think his closest ally and friend is Ed Balls, no doubt they both will still go on a rampage of destruction if the country give Balls power.
Does this do anything as an MP? The people of Scotland will still praise him. I despair, just unbelievable.
I would like to see his head on a stick.
Does this
do anything as an MP? The people of Scotland will still praise him. I despair, just unbelievable.I would like to see his head on a stick.
Not exactly a surprise is it ? You must have known that being PM on £160K a year is just the 2nd from top step to making serious money after you've been PM.
If some foreign country wants to pay him a wad of cash for talking crap, good, he'll be paying the tax here.
If some foreign country wants to pay him a wad of cash for talking crap, good, he'll be paying the tax here.
Edited by Mr_B on Sunday 30th January 10:58
M3333 said:
He has the audacity to call Cameron a rich toff. To think his closest ally and friend is Ed Balls, no doubt they both will still go on a rampage of destruction if the country give Balls power.
Does this do anything as an MP? The people of Scotland will still praise him. I despair, just unbelievable.
I would like to see his head on a stick.
Not everyone in Scotland likes himDoes this
do anything as an MP? The people of Scotland will still praise him. I despair, just unbelievable.I would like to see his head on a stick.
I think he's a useless prick
Mr_B said:
I some foreign contry wants to pay him a wad of cash for talking crap, good, he'll be paying the tax here.
Like Blair before him, some of the money is being paid to his charitable foundation and the rest to his limited company . . . . . . I'm sure everybody who was clobbered by IR35 will find the last highly amusing!
i have been in the USA for the last week or so, and imagine my horror at breakfast the other morning, when cnbc I think was on, (some business channel) and this fking gurning fool appeared on squarkbox. There were some "Asian guys" on the next table who actually started to watch him and listen, discussing what he was saying. After my "Benny" I leaned accross and just said, "sorry guys, you shouldn't listen to him, he's a real dumb fk!"
I felt better having educated my colonial cousins a little!!
Oh and BTW it was "Live from Kilcady" according to the TV so the prig wasn't "in at work" that day either.
king gurning fool appeared on squarkbox. There were some "Asian guys" on the next table who actually started to watch him and listen, discussing what he was saying. After my "Benny" I leaned accross and just said, "sorry guys, you shouldn't listen to him, he's a real dumb fk!"I felt better having educated my colonial cousins a little!!
Oh and BTW it was "Live from Kilcady" according to the TV so the prig wasn't "in at work" that day either.
Oakey said:
I thought he said he was going to do charity work when he stepped down?
He is still being paid to be an MP, he should be doing that and not gallivanting off giving the 'benefit' of his 'wisdom' for money.If that's what he wants to do, he should step down as an MP. I can't describe how much I despise this man and his ilk.
Funk said:
He is still being paid to be an MP, he should be doing that and not gallivanting off giving the 'benefit' of his 'wisdom' for money.
If that's what he wants to do, he should step down as an MP. I can't describe how much I despise this man and his ilk.
Guido has reported that he has been to parliament twice since the election. One of those times, he made a speech gloating about the fact that no one could cancel the aircraft carriers which by a remarkable coincidence, are being built by his electorate.If that's what he wants to do, he should step down as an MP. I can't describe how much I despise this man and his ilk.
Hanging's too good for the f
ker.You're not even slightly angry that he has plunged the country into ruin for decades to come, is still being paid by us and is now off 'earning' money as a result of his 'work' in destroying our economy (and he'll be avoiding paying as much tax on that as possible too)?
Damn right I think he's a.
Damn right I think he's a
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