Moonlighting MPs
Gordon Brown (GB) - former PM and sometime MP for Fife - is apparently being touted for a job as Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Nice job - if you can get it - since it comes with a salary of £270,000 a year - though it's not clear if you can accept the post and still hold on to your day job as an MP.
But if I were GB, I wouldn't be getting my hopes up - because he has to be nominated for the job by his successor - David Cameron (DC)- which seems a tad unlikely.
And DC has repotedly said that GB is not the "most appropriate person" to lead the IMF - because he would not admit the UK had a "debt problem".
DC apparently the BBC Radio 4 Today programme:
"I haven't spent a huge amount of time thinking about this but it does seem to me that, if you have someone who didn't think we had a debt problem in the UK when we self-evidently do have a debt problem, then they might not be the most appropriate person to work out whether other countries around the world have debt and deficit problems."
From that I think it's safe to say that GB shouldn't be packing his bags for Washington DC - anytime soon.
PS - don't you think there are too many acronyms in this post?
Nice job - if you can get it - since it comes with a salary of £270,000 a year - though it's not clear if you can accept the post and still hold on to your day job as an MP.
But if I were GB, I wouldn't be getting my hopes up - because he has to be nominated for the job by his successor - David Cameron (DC)- which seems a tad unlikely.
And DC has repotedly said that GB is not the "most appropriate person" to lead the IMF - because he would not admit the UK had a "debt problem".
DC apparently the BBC Radio 4 Today programme:
"I haven't spent a huge amount of time thinking about this but it does seem to me that, if you have someone who didn't think we had a debt problem in the UK when we self-evidently do have a debt problem, then they might not be the most appropriate person to work out whether other countries around the world have debt and deficit problems."
From that I think it's safe to say that GB shouldn't be packing his bags for Washington DC - anytime soon.
PS - don't you think there are too many acronyms in this post?
