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Cameron Definitely Is Heir To Blair
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Blair's example of his post PM activities with overpriced Speaches and charging millions to whitewash despots seems to be rubbing off on Cameron. Wouldn't you think that with his rich background, Eton Schooling and offshore money from Dad, he wouldn't need to do it. Blairs explanation a pushy wife who pleaded poverty.
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The reason Cameron does these speeches is not for the money - he is already independentl
21:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2018
Good value for money apparently...
// Former Prime Minister Cameron is one of those speakers I wish we could have had at least another hour with. It was so refreshing to be reminded of how a world leader should and can be: articulate, intelligent, and behaving with proper decorum. Thanks for a great evening! //
- St. Louis Speakers Series
// Mr. Cameron’s participation in our event was a huge draw for our audience. He and his team were flexible and accommodating to us and our sponsor, and our audience appreciated his insights and approachable demeanor. His speech was impactful and timely, and his participation led to the overall success of our Annual program. We were so appreciative of his constant juggling between the event sponsors and the event hosts who both came away from the event very pleased with the overall outcome of the event. He’ll be hard to top! //
- Futures Industry Association
// Former Prime Minister Cameron is one of those speakers I wish we could have had at least another hour with. It was so refreshing to be reminded of how a world leader should and can be: articulate, intelligent, and behaving with proper decorum. Thanks for a great evening! //
- St. Louis Speakers Series
// Mr. Cameron’s participation in our event was a huge draw for our audience. He and his team were flexible and accommodating to us and our sponsor, and our audience appreciated his insights and approachable demeanor. His speech was impactful and timely, and his participation led to the overall success of our Annual program. We were so appreciative of his constant juggling between the event sponsors and the event hosts who both came away from the event very pleased with the overall outcome of the event. He’ll be hard to top! //
- Futures Industry Association
The reason Cameron does these speeches is not for the money - he is already independently wealthy - he was in the Sunday Times Rich l List in 2009 at £10 million, before he became PM.
It's simply because the ego-massage, the endless fawning attention, the constant advice of wonderfulness, of influence, of wisdom, of intelligence, and over-arching need to be seen to influencing the world, is powerfully addictive, and politicians find it seriously hard to give up when the days of power are gone.
When that power was ultimate, as for Cameron and Blair, coupled with an ingrained sense of narcissism and perceived intellectual superiority - the need for an audience becomes as oxygen - necessary for life itself.
Add in the fact that outside the UK, you can enhance your achievements, value, and reputation out of all recognition to anything your previous 'subjects' would recognise, you can trot round the world trousering seven figures to get on your hind legs and talk garbage for an hour.
It doesn't matter that you were utterly unworthy of your position, that your electorate wouldn't recognise your current pre-speech brochure as being about you as they remember you in a month of Sundays, that your views and opinions on world politics are about as relevant and interesting as your views on the dark side of the moon ...
None of this matters at all.
It's the adulation, the rapt attention, the being listened to, admired, thought of as fabulous ... I reckon Call-Me-Dave and Tony Liar and Grey Major would do the speeches for nothing - it's not about the money any more, it's the inability to let go of that feeling of power, however non-existent it may really be.
God save us from ex-PM's - yesterday's men who have lost whatever shreds of dignity they may once have possessed, and bore foreigners, because the UK electorate wouldn't tolerate their fees, or indeed, their irrelevant, patronising perceptions of themselves as 'statesmen'.
It's simply because the ego-massage, the endless fawning attention, the constant advice of wonderfulness, of influence, of wisdom, of intelligence, and over-arching need to be seen to influencing the world, is powerfully addictive, and politicians find it seriously hard to give up when the days of power are gone.
When that power was ultimate, as for Cameron and Blair, coupled with an ingrained sense of narcissism and perceived intellectual superiority - the need for an audience becomes as oxygen - necessary for life itself.
Add in the fact that outside the UK, you can enhance your achievements, value, and reputation out of all recognition to anything your previous 'subjects' would recognise, you can trot round the world trousering seven figures to get on your hind legs and talk garbage for an hour.
It doesn't matter that you were utterly unworthy of your position, that your electorate wouldn't recognise your current pre-speech brochure as being about you as they remember you in a month of Sundays, that your views and opinions on world politics are about as relevant and interesting as your views on the dark side of the moon ...
None of this matters at all.
It's the adulation, the rapt attention, the being listened to, admired, thought of as fabulous ... I reckon Call-Me-Dave and Tony Liar and Grey Major would do the speeches for nothing - it's not about the money any more, it's the inability to let go of that feeling of power, however non-existent it may really be.
God save us from ex-PM's - yesterday's men who have lost whatever shreds of dignity they may once have possessed, and bore foreigners, because the UK electorate wouldn't tolerate their fees, or indeed, their irrelevant, patronising perceptions of themselves as 'statesmen'.
Hazi - // Why waste a superb education at Eton and Oxford by sitting back and dossing around? He is using his abilities as a public speaker- what's wrong with that? I personally wouldn't pay to listen to him, but if the others want to, that's their business, surely. //
The ability to land these mega-dosh gigs is nothing to do with their education or their 'abilities' as pubic speakers - have you heard John Major speak?
It's about their perceived wisdom and influence, and knowledge of the world of power and politics.
In other words, it's a sham, which is why they don't do it in the UK.
The ability to land these mega-dosh gigs is nothing to do with their education or their 'abilities' as pubic speakers - have you heard John Major speak?
It's about their perceived wisdom and influence, and knowledge of the world of power and politics.
In other words, it's a sham, which is why they don't do it in the UK.
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