Botham: Trade envoy for Australia, whatever next?

Maybe - my thoughts exactly!

A business opportunity to promote those circulation machines he puffs on daytime TV. 400 people held captive travelling London-Sydney for over 20 hours.

I’m waiting to hear of Anne Widdecombe being offered a trade envoy job….

And Eamon Holmes and Carol Vordemann….

and talking of jobs for ex cricketers; what about Geoffrey Boycott as envoy for women's rights? This is a joke........but you never know. Irony is dead at the moment, reality has overtaken it.

Mind you, Boycott would make a good name for a sales envoy.

MayBee70

Mind you, Boycott would make a good name for a sales envoy.

Good one hehe.?

Botham said Australians were just like their country "big and empty" Does anyone think that will help us to trade with Australia?

GillT57

It is rumoured that the main reason for this questionable appointment is so that Liz Truss can say that Botham Bats for Britain, oh and that he is a staunch Brexiteer.

It's so that Liz Truss can cram as many cliches possible into as few words.

We could debate who appears to have fewer brain-cells - Liz Truss or Botham?. Hard to tell.

jaylucy

Sometimes those with no expertise can do the best job!
Australia sets great store by sports stars and many will remember him from the Ashes.
He could probably do a much better job than many politicians or bods with letters after their names could do.
His passion for his country and probably belief that some items produced can't be beaten. Let him have a go !

Couldn’t agree more!

We obviously need to boost trade with the likes of Cameroon and Lichtenstein and need special envoys for those places , why not one for the biggest trading bloc in the world?

Exactly. Does our government not realise that the biggest trade bloc in the world is actually on our doorstep?