Piers Morgan
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So why would you expect anyone of calibre to do that? So we don't pay people enough for important jobs in this country. I would personally pay the politicians an awful lot more. What they couldn't do is have any outside interest. So I might even pay them half a million pounds a year. But I say you cannot have any stock investments. You cannot have any outside business interest.
So why would you expect anyone of calibre to do that? So we don't pay people enough for important jobs in this country. I would personally pay the politicians an awful lot more. What they couldn't do is have any outside interest. So I might even pay them half a million pounds a year. But I say you cannot have any stock investments. You cannot have any outside business interest.
So why would you expect anyone of calibre to do that? So we don't pay people enough for important jobs in this country. I would personally pay the politicians an awful lot more. What they couldn't do is have any outside interest. So I might even pay them half a million pounds a year. But I say you cannot have any stock investments. You cannot have any outside business interest.
Yeah, well, he would, yeah. But in a way, the fact that Rishi was stinking rich, I was fine about that. I think you don't make decisions then based on what's going to benefit you, right?
Yeah, well, he would, yeah. But in a way, the fact that Rishi was stinking rich, I was fine about that. I think you don't make decisions then based on what's going to benefit you, right?
Yeah, well, he would, yeah. But in a way, the fact that Rishi was stinking rich, I was fine about that. I think you don't make decisions then based on what's going to benefit you, right?
I wonder if a lot of Tories have not got seller's remorse about Rishi, actually. I think the way he behaved after he lost, he was very impressive in the comments after that. I always liked him. I think he made a few strategic missteps, but actually pretty smart, committed, hardworking guy. And yeah, the fact he was rich didn't bother me at all. But no, I think it's going to be very interesting.
I wonder if a lot of Tories have not got seller's remorse about Rishi, actually. I think the way he behaved after he lost, he was very impressive in the comments after that. I always liked him. I think he made a few strategic missteps, but actually pretty smart, committed, hardworking guy. And yeah, the fact he was rich didn't bother me at all. But no, I think it's going to be very interesting.
I wonder if a lot of Tories have not got seller's remorse about Rishi, actually. I think the way he behaved after he lost, he was very impressive in the comments after that. I always liked him. I think he made a few strategic missteps, but actually pretty smart, committed, hardworking guy. And yeah, the fact he was rich didn't bother me at all. But no, I think it's going to be very interesting.
I mean, I do think we're deliberately attracting people mediocre people to politics now because we don't make it attractive enough to attract the smart people.
I mean, I do think we're deliberately attracting people mediocre people to politics now because we don't make it attractive enough to attract the smart people.
I mean, I do think we're deliberately attracting people mediocre people to politics now because we don't make it attractive enough to attract the smart people.
Because that wasn't why they were rioting. Of course, that's my point. They were rioting because they were whipped up by people who should know better and probably did know better into believing a certain set of circumstances had happened surrounding an appalling attack, right? They hadn't. It wasn't actually an illegal asylum seeker who committed these actions.
Because that wasn't why they were rioting. Of course, that's my point. They were rioting because they were whipped up by people who should know better and probably did know better into believing a certain set of circumstances had happened surrounding an appalling attack, right? They hadn't. It wasn't actually an illegal asylum seeker who committed these actions.
Because that wasn't why they were rioting. Of course, that's my point. They were rioting because they were whipped up by people who should know better and probably did know better into believing a certain set of circumstances had happened surrounding an appalling attack, right? They hadn't. It wasn't actually an illegal asylum seeker who committed these actions.
And so people were exactly, in a way, on a smaller, it was a smaller version of the Iraq war, which I oppose so pacifistically. I'll tell you why. It was fought on an entirely false pretext. Had Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, that war would have been justified.
And so people were exactly, in a way, on a smaller, it was a smaller version of the Iraq war, which I oppose so pacifistically. I'll tell you why. It was fought on an entirely false pretext. Had Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, that war would have been justified.
And so people were exactly, in a way, on a smaller, it was a smaller version of the Iraq war, which I oppose so pacifistically. I'll tell you why. It was fought on an entirely false pretext. Had Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, that war would have been justified.
Had the person who perpetrated this crime been an illegal asylum seeker, you're not entitled to commit violence, but you're certainly entitled to feel rage about that happening at a time when this whole issue of illegal asylum seekers coming in taking over the country, all that argument they put forward, it would at least have had some validity that that was why they were angry.
Had the person who perpetrated this crime been an illegal asylum seeker, you're not entitled to commit violence, but you're certainly entitled to feel rage about that happening at a time when this whole issue of illegal asylum seekers coming in taking over the country, all that argument they put forward, it would at least have had some validity that that was why they were angry.