Iain Duncan Smith makes £1,000 an hour from speeches. He should give the cash to homelessness charities

Last Updated: January 14, 2017By

Iain Duncan Smith is a political washout who makes huge sums talking about his failures. The same people who pay him a fortune would quibble about skilled tradespeople being paid enough for their work to avoid having to claim state benefits. [Image: PA.]

I think we can all agree that the Gentleman Ranker’s claim to be able to live on £53 a week, like a benefit claimant, was a lie.

He likes the high life too much.

This latest revelation, about the man who took so much from the people who had so little, would only be acceptable if he was giving the cash away to a charity for the homeless, those with long-term sicknesses, or other people whose lives have been wrecked by his homicidal policies.

The scale of the payments really hammers home the fact that Conservatives do not understand the value of money; they are shameless about the amounts they demand for themselves while simultaneously claiming that others do not deserve a decent wage for a proper day’s work.

Labour should use Iain Duncan Smith as an advert for Jeremy Corbyn’s maximum wage.

Iain Duncan Smith is now cashing in to the tune of £1,000 an hour on the speaking circuit just months after he quit as Work and Pensions Secretary.

New figures show the benefit-slashing Tory – who claimed he could live on £53 a week in 2013 – was paid £11,280 for two recent talks, enough to fund one person’s Bedroom Tax for 14 years.

Together they took nine hours of work, giving him an average pay of £1,253 an hour – on top of his £75,000-a-year MP’s salary.

Source: Iain Duncan Smith making £1,000 an hour for speeches after quitting as Tory benefit slasher

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5 Comments

  1. Justin January 14, 2017 at 2:50 am - Reply

    wonder what he talked about, genocide, how he helped vunerable people get worse, his wonderfull breakfast at over 30 pounds, sak and sara, his two virtual friends from the dwp, more to the point who is sick enough to actually listen to this horrible thing and to pay 1k, no doubt as Mein Kampf is now being released in Germany I would not be surprised if he has his own version, horrible person, should have been sacked and jailed along with his cohorts

  2. Rupert Mitchell (@rupert_rrl) January 14, 2017 at 8:38 am - Reply

    I can’t understand how anyone would want to actually pay him in order to listen to a speech.

  3. John Costello January 14, 2017 at 9:45 am - Reply

    I am sure that there are many people who would like to see the punishment of being publicly hanged, drawn and quartered brought back for this man whose welfare reforms have inflicted misery on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed.

    John Costello
    Activist for ‘We Are Shadows’

  4. Florence January 14, 2017 at 11:28 am - Reply

    IDS really is the pound-shop ex Tory leader. £1200 per hour might be a kings ransom to us mere pauper villeins in the social order of the UK, but he must be feeling pretty hard done by when Cameron got £126,000 (I think?) for a single “talk” recently. He must be desperate to have anyone pay him, or even turn up to listen.

  5. NMac January 15, 2017 at 10:40 am - Reply

    It really does puzzle me who would want to listen to this dishonest and nasty hypocrite. I bet he doesn’t talk about the “inside story” of the Betsygate affair in 2003.

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