‘I’ve earned £575 in six months’: The ex-Tory MPs who can’t get a job
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/16/ex-tory-mp-unemployed-political-views/
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‘I’ve earned £575 in six months’: The ex-Tory MPs who can’t get a job
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/16/ex-tory-mp-unemployed-political-views/
Posted by IsWasMaybeAMefi
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Surely the Tory graph can offer them a job? Maybe they can use AI to help them write some more slop?
“Theresa Villiers, former MP for Chipping Barnet, has a profile that says she is “exploring a new career in the academic and business worlds… seeking new opportunities – University roles, non-executive directorships and advisory/consultancy”
A woman with no beginning to her .. talents?
A woman of no substance?
I’m not terribly suprised that a CV of being a mediocre backbencher installed by the party apparatus doesn’t really impress. People have largely cottoned onto the fact that most MPs exist to be seatwarmers toeing the party line.
I think the main problem is that none of these ex-politians want to work anymore.
I am sure there are plenty of positions in face to face customer service or call centres for them, they just don’t want to work.
It couldn’t of happened to a nicer bunch of people.
TLDR: *”I spent many years fucking over the working class, then moved onto fucking over the middle class for a laugh, whilst displaying a very clear history of incompetence to the point where even some of the most devoted Tory supporters lost all faith in my abilities, and now no one wants to work with me, it’s so unfair!”*
>“However, no ex-MP should ever expect sympathy and nor should any ex-MP ask for it.
They probably make more from their rental properties than most people do from their wage, what is there to feel sorry for them about?
Plenty of minimum wage customer service apprenticeships they could apply for to learn some on the job skills and gain experience while getting paid.
[Oh dear, how sad, never mind.](https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2022/01/29/1339335813769248301/640x360_MP4_1339335813769248301.mp4)
Surely they can claim benefits? Apparently it is do easy and so generous that a lot of people just do it as a lifestyle choice.
Apparerntly supporting the likes of Boris Johnson and taking us through the lies of Brexit are a negative to an employer. I guess that people don’t want to have employees that will openly support lies.
They should just try harder. Maybe get some fruit/veg picking jobs or something. The sooner they have to live like the peasants they despise and fucked over for 14 years, the better.
From a former teacher turned MP
>Post-parliament, he added, he could not work in education because there are “too many activists in the classroom”. As of January, he is still looking for a full-time role.
What do you think a Tory MP would tell a claimant on Universal Credit if they used that as an excuse for not working?
Genuinely pathetic and a long overdue taste of their own medicine.
If that’s a statement fro Sea Gullis he’s been paid too much already.
Plenty of part time or 0 hour contracts in retail and social care, get to it.
Oh, and welcome to our world.
No sympathy for “Sea”Gullis. I don’t think he’s correct to say that ex-MP’s are seen as a problem – the problem is that he spent x years publically acting like a boorish, braying simpleton. Some MP’s are serious adults, some are not.
Bollocks. They can get a job, they simply choose not to.
Have they no bootstraps by which to pull themselves up?
He got over £80.000 a year plus loads of expenses. Tough shit. Now you have a small understanding of what most people have to put up with because your lot ripped everyone off.
Nice of the Telegraph to give us a good news story for a change
They’re experiencing the reality their time in parliament created.
Hark at them trying to make out it’s because they were MPs and not because they showed the world how incompetent they were and for some of them, what terrible people they are.
Pass my a very tiny violin! For most of them, being closely associated with the Tory party is a career-killer for any other walk of life. The party that peddled xenophobia, took us out of the EU, trashed the economy whilst overseeing massive deterioration in public services and a massive increase in inequality is not likely to be a place where people would have been likey to develop the skills necessary to get a job in the real world. Still, they can always seek advice on how to manage in reduced circumstances from their former colleague, 30p Lee, and tuck into all those delicious cheap meals that are so easy to prepare.
– they are discovering that, more than ever, their parliamentary experience does not translate.
If you’ve been a Minister and had responsibility for running a department, then OK, I could see how that could translate to a number of corporate executive type roles.
If you’ve spent most of your Parliamentary career as a backbencher, then your experience is…. what exactly? Some constituency casework, the odd bit of public speaking, and being noisy when someone else is talking?
they should try signing on and living on the abysmal pittance they give to the vulnerable. might give them some perspective, although if they had the empathy for that they wouldn’t have been conservatives in the first place.
Did that £575 come from Nativity appearances? With their track record of braying, they’ve made excellent donkeys
> “I thought I had a couple of board jobs to go to, but they did not materialise post the general election result.”
Well yeah, there’s not much point in bribing someone who’s not in a position to grant political favours.
That’s plenty of money though. You only need 30p a day to live, don’t you ?
But, really, who wouldn’t want to employ these wonderful people ? These models of probity who have selflessly sacrificed their lives for the furtherment of the country ?
Anyway, they can sign up for Universal Credit but they’ll need to demonstrate they’re spending 35 hours a week looking for work and be prepared to have the DWP go through their bank accounts and obviously go into the Job Centre on demand no matter how inconvenient or difficult and expensive that may be.
Sounds like these Tories need to ‘get on their bike’ and take whatever is offered to them. Like they told us. I’m guessing they’re just lazy and workshy, living on scratchcards, 3L cider, and cigs. I don’t need nuance, the Tory position is you’re slovenly if you’re not working. Plenty of shelves need stacked, plenty of old people need carers. Just retrain and get into a trade sure.
Sounds like some people need to start skipping the avocado toast and £3 coffees, while they fill in their 100th CV that week. Hope they can explain the gaps in their employment.
It’s very easy to dismiss this and revel in schadenfreude. So easy in fact I intend to for several days.
I have 0 sympathy for these idiots that continued to ruin the country for the last decade or so
Cut their benefits if they refuse to work, I’m sick of these former politicians sucking cash out of the System if they don’t like it they can go back to where their dad’s company is registered
>The shift from parliament to unemployment is both swift and brutal. It is not only the salary of £91,000 (ministers are paid up to £67,000 more) disappearing almost overnight – save for the “loss of office” and “winding up” payments given to outgoing MPs, amounting to about four months’ salary – but the loss of colleagues, a career, and a sense of identity.
Leaving a job with 4 months salary to tide you over as you enter unemployment is neither ‘brutal’ nor ‘swift’. Short of taking an unusually generous voluntary redundancy payout or leaving a c-suite role this is far more than the average pleb would get, and at almost 3x the national average salary too.
Is there something I’m missing here? And the sheer sense of entitlement and privilege in the statement ‘i thought i had a few board jobs to go to’ also. What did he promise to people whilst in office to think he’d be able to just walk into a senior board position somewhere?