Jesus. That’s like winning the lottery every damn year. Why should a politician make that much? Let him go into corporate private business if he wants to make more. I guarantee you there will be someone who cares more about your country who is perfectly fine with making 200k-300k per year.
To underscore the point that he already worked in banking. The op said “if someone wants to make that much they should work in the private sector”…Rishi Sunak very much did work in the private sector.
His job is to represent the people of his electoral riding and manage the day to day work of the PM’s office. That he’s making £2M on the side is grounds for an immediate recall if you ask me.
I don’t think he’s making active investment decisions. In fact I’m almost certain it will be some sort of blind trust which is the usual mechanism ministers use for their investments when they go into office.
I know that’s common practice and sometimes even the law, but it doesn’t matter if it’s a blind trust. The decisions made by the person getting the money are more influenced by how much they stand to gain or lose, and less by what the people want and need.
The point is that the people cannot possibly trust a representative who has higher priorities than serving the people.
Jesus. That’s like winning the lottery every damn year. Why should a politician make that much? Let him go into corporate private business if he wants to make more. I guarantee you there will be someone who cares more about your country who is perfectly fine with making 200k-300k per year.
Did you read the article at all? His salary as PM was like 10% of his income. The rest was from investments he made FROM his time in banking.
Why is your FROM capitalized? To you type a lot of SQL on your phone and it got auto-capitalized or what?
Normalize SQL formatting IN normal text conversations
To underscore the point that he already worked in banking. The op said “if someone wants to make that much they should work in the private sector”…Rishi Sunak very much did work in the private sector.
SQL on phone sounds like a nightmare
His PM salary is only about 7% of that total.
His job is to represent the people of his electoral riding and manage the day to day work of the PM’s office. That he’s making £2M on the side is grounds for an immediate recall if you ask me.
I don’t think he’s making active investment decisions. In fact I’m almost certain it will be some sort of blind trust which is the usual mechanism ministers use for their investments when they go into office.
I know that’s common practice and sometimes even the law, but it doesn’t matter if it’s a blind trust. The decisions made by the person getting the money are more influenced by how much they stand to gain or lose, and less by what the people want and need.
The point is that the people cannot possibly trust a representative who has higher priorities than serving the people.