For that much money. . .
WE shall now observe a moment of silence, to mark the plight of some of Britain's best- paid businessmen. (Sssh. Thank you.) Colin Sharman explains why 114 of them put their names to an advertisement in the Financial Times, urging the government to make up its mind and join the euro. 'Businessmen dislike uncertainty,' says Mr Sharman. 'It forces them to gamble with the future of their busi- nesses on the basis of inadequate informa- tion.' Well, tough. We all take decisions like this every day of our lives — marrying the girl, taking an umbrella to work — but they want to be spared. We might have thought that they were paid to take decisions, that some of those decisions would be difficult and that their rewards reflected this. At the head of one of the Big Five accounting firms, Mr Sharman got £510,000 last year, plus £188,000 as his share of the partnership and £206,000 towards his pension.
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