It’s a lovely summer’s day and you just want a bit of me time. A quiet lunch of champagne and oysters. Anything to get away from having to pretend you are interested in the people of Clacton.
Hell, it’s bad enough being expected to actually visit Clacton – who in their right mind would want to do that? – let alone having to talk to the little people who live there. So, you’re just minding your own business when who should turn up but two of your closest mates in politics – or contractors who you’ve barely heard of, as you prefer to call them – saying they have been having meetings with an American donor and his son who have already given you more than £30,000 for an opinion poll you have commissioned and now want to bung you another £500,000. And these guys would like to meet you.
Two strangers, one of them even a foreigner, who want to take up an hour of your time. And all you’re going to get for it is half a million quid. Who do they think you are?
Don’t they know Thai crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne stumped up a £5m gift? Admittedly, several hundred Cameo users have bought you for £80 a pop, but that was at least a few months ago. Besides, that wasn’t really being bought.
More a short-term rental. These wasters are basically insulting you. But you’re a tolerant kind of guy.
You choose to indulge them. If you have a fault it’s that you’re never chippy and are unfailingly polite. So you go along with them even though they have nothing of value to offer you.
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