Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot be a proper job. You would lose a proper job if you had lied on your CV, including your LinkedIn profile.
"I'm an economist, well, I work on the complaints desk of a bank" is a delusion of a common enough type, and the clues were always there. Professing to have learned it all at her grandmother's kitchen table made Rachel Reeves economically as illiterate as Margaret Thatcher, who thought that running the economy was like being a housewife, hardly something that she herself had ever been, and that the State, the sovereign issuer of currency, had no money of its own. Based on Reeves's record in office, what, exactly, did her grandmother teach her?
Suitably bracing stuff, Mr. L.
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DeleteI suppose being a Durham tutor can’t be a proper job either, given you weren’t fired from that (even though you lied about what it meant)
ReplyDeleteBut being a telegraph blogger was a proper job, because you were fired from that
Lord knows what the first part of that means, but I was never paid for the Telegraph Blog, which is why (the late?) Damian Thompson was never sued for racial discrimination.
DeleteThompson is still alive but unlike you he was sacked from his livelihood at the Telegraph.
DeleteWhen I buy the Telegraph for about 50p, then my office will contain Damian Thompson, stuffed and mounted. He has been both many times before. But not in that order. I shall charge people to be photographed with him, and I shall sell plastic miniatures of him, ideally ones that glowed in the dark. What tune should I wire him up to play, how much money should punters have to insert to hear that, and whereabouts upon him should they have to insert it?
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