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I was thinking about how much Owen Paterson got paid for relatively little work and wondering what guarantee and oversight his paymasters had that he actually did what they paid him to do? Until he got busted, could his backers know for sure that he actually sent those letters or took those meetings?
There must be a lot of faith involved in that deal. And if so Patterson would have been paid at the sort of discount you'd expect to get on a used car – you pay less when you don't know exactly what you are getting for your money.
Which made me think about how much a lobbying service would really be worth. What would be the going rate for a definite result?