William Hague – a bargain at £16,000?

A night out with accountants might not be to everyone’s cup of tea, but the South Wales Chartered Accountants’ Awards Dinner went with a swing.
Its success, I understand, was down in no small part to its guest speaker, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague MP.
Mr Hague, I’m told, was worth every penny paid for Thursday’s 45-minute talk at City Hall, Cardiff.
I say ‘penny’, his rumoured remuneration was a little more generous… £16,000, anyone?
One of the event sponsors, by the way, was Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets. Credit crunch. What credit crunch!