23-02-2015, 11:34 AM
The following is from The Needle and raises the point that neither of these two former Foreign Secretaries consider the not inconsiderable salary they receive from the taxpayer as Parliamentarians to be of any meaningful consideration - but instead ply their insider trade like a Hansom Cab for £5-8k a day for a "salary" from the highest bidder.
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Quote:Malcolm Rifkind "Nobody Pays Me A Salary"
Two former foreign secretaries have been secretly filmed apparently offering their services to a private company for thousands of pounds.Self-employed ? No salary?
Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind are the subject of the allegations, arising from a joint investigation by the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches…
…Sir Malcolm is reported to have claimed he could arrange "useful access" to every British ambassador in the world.
The Conservative MP for Kensington and chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee was recorded saying: "I am self-employed so nobody pays me a salary. I have to earn my income."
He said his usual fee for half a day's work was "somewhere in the region of £5,000 to £8,000″.
Rifkind must have temporarily forgotten about the salary that the British taxpayer foot the bill for…
How much do Select Committee Chair get paid?My guess is that both Jact Straw and Malcolm Rifkind will be shuffled off to the House of Lords where this kind of fiddling is par for the course and where they will both fit right in.
The salary entitlement of a Select Committee Chair is £81,936 (this figure comprises of MP's salary of £67,060 and additional salary for Select Committee Chairs of £14,876) from 1 April 2014.
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14