New job for old PM

As old readers of this blog know, I’m not very fond of our former PM Göran Persson. Being on opposite sides politically I can take, but there is just something about him as person I can’t stand. Some people you just like some you don’t.

Since losing the election last autumn and retiring as chairman for the Socialdemocrats Göran Persson has more less been away from the media spotlight or almost. A documentary on national television earlier this year that really cemented already well-known facts about him.

Today it was announced that Göran Persson’s new job is going to be senior PR-consultant. This at a PR company who has close ties with Moderaterna (Conservative and totally opposite on the political scale). Interesting.

So what is there to say?! The man obviously needs a job… But the funny thing is that Göran Persson as PM several times slammed PR-companies and lobbyist. Even in his last speech as party chairman in March this year he was harsh.

"Lobbyists don't work for what is new. They work for what is old. The solutions of the future do not have lobbyists. It is the solutions of past that have lobbyists."

It is amazing what a difference two months can do.