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Yeah, but like assassins.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not a fan of the guy.
But I have to say with this story, I thought to myself that if I have been completely untrained my entire life for the job and then handed the job of trade envoy for the UK, I too would struggle to know where the line is between what I can and can't say to people with money who are going to do trades.
Because, you know, because imagine what his life is like.
He was walking around doing nothing.
They went, this guy needs employment.
They give him trade envoy.
Now he's walking around with the same people.
Like every time he walks into an event, it's just everyone that he went to school with.
And some of them are politicians and some of them are not in politics, but some of them are lobbyists.
Like I'd also get very confused as to who I can say what to and when.
I mean, is this the same story kind of as the Mandelson story where we cannot hold the guy to blame?
We knew who Andrew was by the time we made him trade envoy.
It was clear who he was.
It was clear who Mandelson was.
It was clear who his friends were.
It was clear that the man couldn't be trusted.
Do we hold them to account for their own actions at this point or the people who gave them the job?
You know, I don't watch football, don't follow it, don't like it, think it's just a substitution for war evidenced by what their fans do afterwards.