Loans and Politicians

Why would you lend money to a politician?

Because you like them! Give it a rest.

Because they'd do you a favour! Of course. Supposing you were a widget manufacturer and the government wanted to buy a million, then the odd political loan or donation might help.

For a knighthood or a peerage. Lloyd George had a scale for this. Surely, there isn't one now. But if you want one, then perhaps that load could just swing it.

Years ago, when I wrote Artemis and created Metier, we did something that had never been done in the UK before. We created a world-class company in seven years, that was responsible for the planning of half the major projects in the world.

We can count no honours at all. But we did win two Queens Awards.

Perhaps we should have made some political donations.