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Originally Posted by Hugh
"They" don't - "some of them" do.....
If it is in line with the guidelines above, they should get paid - or do you think that, when you retire, and you are asked to do something on behalf of your previous employer, you should do it for free?
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I'm talking about ex-prime ministers, who will all get appearance money, and will all get a full pension after just 12 years as an MP.
When they have retired, then it is up to them if they do public speaking or not. They aren't obliged to do it, they choose to do it either for money, for the love of it, or for their ego. But either way, why should the tax payer foot the bill for someone who is no longer in office to talk to a group of people?
We have to remember that they are no longer in office because the country didn't want them there.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
The atttending occasional dinner or meeting is, IMHO, speculation.
As posted above, it is paid in respect of office and secretarial expenses incurred by former Prime Ministers in connection with their public duties.
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They don't have any public duties once they have retired.
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Originally Posted by Welshchris
i read somewhere that for blair alone it costs the taxpayer around £2million a year in security as the same post posed the question should the tax payer be paying when he had earned around £15 million in the same year.
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Exactly. If they want to continue earning money through public speaking etc, then they can do it as a business, and pay for their own security.