Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP
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93k for chatting shit and being a cunt.
Damn.
I feel robbed
Does not bother me. Also he donates his mp salary to charity, or at least he did before he had his own party to run - he probably reinvests it into the party now.
The thing is, if he can get money from posting on x, then other politicians of all persuasion can do so too.