Bit naughty to put that on one’s cv – unless, of course, he managed to condense 3 years into one which seems unlikely.
But he DID go to Sandhurst soon after, though again his commission in the Grenadier Guards was quite short (a couple of years or so).
Sir Alan Sugar wouldn’t have been impressed if he’d been on The Apprentice when it got to the examination of the cv stage!
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Hugo, Most will be familiar with the name, and the 16 years I have been in Exmouth I did see him at an Election meeting once.
It is not so surprising the Swire family interests are in the trading houses of the old British Empire with what was the lucrative businesses that made so many of those involved with China and Hong Kong rich. Unfortunately a large amount of commerce was in the Opium trade. This was our main export market to China, making people rich was not a problem of our Government.
One of the most prominent companies in the 1830s happened to be a William Jardine and James Matheson who still have a gleaming Hong Kong headquarters and still a commercial success, they returned to Britain and acquired Highland estates and both got seats in parliament and Matheson was made a Lord.
I believe the Swire association with the colony of Hong Kong was in the early 20th century but for sure it was the hard-faced capitalism that made us drive the expansion that the British believed would make us all rich.
We lost the Empire because of the preoccupation of a mixture of greed and need, nothing has changed, money is still the king.
But our new candidate Claire Wright has no part of this old system of medals and knighthoods, she can be breath of fresh air
with no establishment or party money pushing her agenda, apart from a need of change, from the controlling powers that be.
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Perhaps he got Jeffrey Archer to write it for him.
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