A young man named Gordon bought a donkey from an old farmer for 100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day, but when the farmer drove up he said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news... the donkey is on my truck, but unfortunately he's dead."
Gordon replied,"Well then, just give me the money back." The farmer said, "I can't do that, because I've spent it already." Gordon said, "OK then, well just unload the donkey anyway." The farmer asked, "What are you going to do with him?" Gordon answered, "I'm going to raffle him off." To which the farmer exclaimed, "Surely you can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
But Gordon with a wicked smile on his face said "Of course I can, you watch me. I just won't bother to tell anybody that he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Gordon and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?" Gordon said, " I raffled him off, sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece, and made a huge fat profit ! !"
Totally amazed, the farmer asked, "Didn't anyone complain that you had stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?" To which Gordon replied, "The only guy who found out about the donkey being dead was the raffle winner when he came to claim his prize. So I gave him his 2 raffle ticket money back plus an extra 200, which as you know is double the going rate for a donkey, so he thought I was a great guy ! !"
Gordon grew up and eventually became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no matter how many times he lied, or how much money he stole from the British voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them, unfortunately, still thought he was a great guy.
一個名為戈登的年輕人從一個老農民買了一頭驢100。同意提供驢第二天的農民，但農民開車時，他說：“對不起，兒子，但我有一些壞消息......驢子是我的卡車上，但不幸的是他已經死了。”
戈登說，“那麼，只要給我錢。”農民說，“我不能這樣做，因為我已經花掉了。”戈登說，“OK，然後，只需卸驢反正”。農民問：“你打算怎麼做他嗎？”戈登說：“我要抽獎了。”農民驚呼，“你當然不能抽獎了死驢！”
但戈登在他的臉上邪惡的笑容說：“當然可以，你看我，我不會打擾告訴任何人，他已經死了。”
一個月後，農民遇到了與戈登問，“什麼事，死驢？”戈登說，“我抽獎了，賣一塊兩磅500票，並取得了巨大的豐厚的利潤！”
完全驚訝，農民問，“沒有人抱怨說，你偷了他們的錢，因為你是死的驢謊稱？”“戈登說，”唯一的傢伙，誰發現了驢，雖然死了，是抽獎的得主，當他聲稱他的獎金，所以我給了他他的2抽獎券的錢加上一個額外的200，你知道這是雙一頭驢，所以他以為我是一個偉大的傢伙！“
戈登長大，並最終成為財政大臣，無論多少次，他撒了謊，或者多少錢，因為他給了他們一些贓款，其中大部分，可惜，他從英國的選民，只要偷，還以為他是一個偉大的傢伙。
