Alistair Darling
Politics Show - Alistair Darling interview
24/05/09 11:59 Filed in: Personal
I just caught Alistair Darling on the Politics Show getting a proper drumming down by the interviewer. It was a performance worthy of Jeremy Paxman.
Poor old Alistair Darling had a little panic session, which was pretty good.
But the part of the interview that really shocked me was that he had to pay for rates in the number 11 AND at his home on Edinburgh (where his family lives). What, like EVERYBODY who has two homes has too. I mean his FAMILY live in his Edinburgh house and use the services there and HE lives in number 11 and uses the services there.
Am I missing something?
Just what is it about politicians? Doesn’t his £180k+ salary doesn’t cover that!
Barclays are going to pay out £5 million in bonuses. What did A.D. think of that? Well, he stated that NO bonus would be paid out to anybody who was involved in the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland.... {pause} “unless there was some contractual agreement”. What, like an employment contract then? *Ahem*
Talk about paper tiger....
Poor old Alistair Darling had a little panic session, which was pretty good.
But the part of the interview that really shocked me was that he had to pay for rates in the number 11 AND at his home on Edinburgh (where his family lives). What, like EVERYBODY who has two homes has too. I mean his FAMILY live in his Edinburgh house and use the services there and HE lives in number 11 and uses the services there.
Am I missing something?
Just what is it about politicians? Doesn’t his £180k+ salary doesn’t cover that!
Barclays are going to pay out £5 million in bonuses. What did A.D. think of that? Well, he stated that NO bonus would be paid out to anybody who was involved in the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland.... {pause} “unless there was some contractual agreement”. What, like an employment contract then? *Ahem*
Talk about paper tiger....