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Thursday 20 October 2011

More on amateurism

I don't know whether it is the truth or the end result of a meme started by my last posting, but Paul Waugh of the Evening Standard has blogged today that Cameron appointed Chloe Smith to a Treasury ministerial post under the misapprehension that her 4 years at Deloitte entailed qualification as a Chartered Accountant.

According to Waugh, she disabused him of this idea .. before accepting the post, trusering a considerably higher ministerial salary than she could have ever expected as a spreadsheet jockey at Deloittes.

Still, with Cameron's "real world" experience limited to PR, we can hardly expect him to understand.

2 comments:

Demetrius said...

At one time we were governed by amateur politicians but recently by professionals. The amateurs seemed to have done rather better. But when a professional is amateur what can happen, will it all just fall apart?

Alex said...

Very true, but in those days government spending represented considerably less than 50% of GDP.