I hope that all the expensive legal talent currently figuring out the financial benefits being showered on WHU will also find a moment to calculate the football-inflationary effect of a caked-up West Ham being able to join the big boys in bidding for top talent.
The latest addition to Stratford's highly impressive transport portfolio - The Gravy Train.
Looking at the london-stadium web site and Vinci claiming its a year round multi-use venue, along with the stuff about traveling to/from the stadium, is just rubbish and I dont know how they get away with it.
Looking at the london-stadium web site and Vinci claiming its a year round multi-use venue, along with the stuff about traveling to/from the stadium, is just rubbish and I dont know how they get away with it.
They won't. Rest assured that the Olympic Stadium Coalition has already moved on to "Stage 2" of the campaign, and a couple of important meetings are taking place, one today, and another early next month. Wish I could be there to participate but I cannot even claim credit; as I kept trying to explain to the hapless @gavros and his dumbass mates on KUMB, the control centre of the OSC planning team long since moved away from SE7 (or Prague) :-)
But I will keep this thread posted, as appropriate.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
If my club made a donation to any political party - including the one I support - I'd give up on professional football! Of course it is the best way to turn £272m of unusable tax payer's money into party funds- even if a small amount. But having the support of Gold and Sullivan over the years will benefit the Tory party and the £272m wasn't its money. I don't think this shows the Conservative party is corrupt - only one or two will be behind this! I think it also highlights were the donation system is morally wrong!
This whole affair is a spaghetti of left/right entanglements. Doubtless the lack of a clear division on party political lines has brought about an uneasy mutual smokescreen - will the true story ever be allowed to emerge ? The septics call this pork-barrel politics - bacon sandwich, anyone ?
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
Got a link?
It was in the i paper this morning. Only £12,500 but that's not really the point.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
Got a link?
It was in the i paper this morning. Only £12,500 but that's not really the point.
Of course, creating wealth through honest hard work, and taking risks, are admirable qualities. But the objects of Mr Cameron’s hero-worship, and the business people he strives to promote, are frequently very odd.
Take, for example, Karren Brady, since 2014 a Conservative peer, and something of a protégé of the Prime Minister — as well as being Lord Sugar’s obliging sidekick on The Apprentice. This self-made woman is also Mr Cameron’s ‘Small Business Ambassador’, which, on paper, sounds very good.
But she cut her teeth working for David Sullivan, who in the Seventies owned sex shops, pornographic magazines and a number of massage parlours. In 1982, Sullivan was convicted of living off immoral earnings, and served 71 days in jail. Some mentor for the young Karren Brady!
Mr Sullivan is now co-owner of West Ham United Football Club with David Gold, also a former pornographer. Their vice-chairman is none other than David Cameron’s new friend, Baroness Brady.
She distinguished herself, and helped to enrich West Ham, by playing a key part in negotiations which resulted in the Olympic Stadium being leased for a song to the club. This means that taxpayers subsidised West Ham with facilities worth a staggering £701 million — including £257 million to convert the stadium to football use — with the Government only getting back £15 million.
Oddly, there is someone else connected to West Ham who has also caught the Prime Minister’s eye. Jacqueline Gold is daughter of the aforementioned David, and something of a chip off the old block. As chief executive of Ann Summers, she is best known for bringing the ‘Rampant Rabbit’ sex toy to our shores.
Ms Gold has become a bit of a mover and shaker in Tory circles, and made quite a splash at the 2015 Conservative Party Black And White Ball, where her father — worth a reputed £240 million — sat at Mr Cameron’s right hand. So far, Jacqueline has only picked up a CBE, but it can’t be long before she joins Baroness Brady on the Tory benches.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
Got a link?
It was in the i paper this morning. Only £12,500 but that's not really the point.
Blimey, no wonder people don't buy the things anymore
Of course, creating wealth through honest hard work, and taking risks, are admirable qualities. But the objects of Mr Cameron’s hero-worship, and the business people he strives to promote, are frequently very odd.
Take, for example, Karren Brady, since 2014 a Conservative peer, and something of a protégé of the Prime Minister — as well as being Lord Sugar’s obliging sidekick on The Apprentice. This self-made woman is also Mr Cameron’s ‘Small Business Ambassador’, which, on paper, sounds very good.
But she cut her teeth working for David Sullivan, who in the Seventies owned sex shops, pornographic magazines and a number of massage parlours. In 1982, Sullivan was convicted of living off immoral earnings, and served 71 days in jail. Some mentor for the young Karren Brady!
Mr Sullivan is now co-owner of West Ham United Football Club with David Gold, also a former pornographer. Their vice-chairman is none other than David Cameron’s new friend, Baroness Brady.
She distinguished herself, and helped to enrich West Ham, by playing a key part in negotiations which resulted in the Olympic Stadium being leased for a song to the club. This means that taxpayers subsidised West Ham with facilities worth a staggering £701 million — including £257 million to convert the stadium to football use — with the Government only getting back £15 million.
Oddly, there is someone else connected to West Ham who has also caught the Prime Minister’s eye. Jacqueline Gold is daughter of the aforementioned David, and something of a chip off the old block. As chief executive of Ann Summers, she is best known for bringing the ‘Rampant Rabbit’ sex toy to our shores.
Ms Gold has become a bit of a mover and shaker in Tory circles, and made quite a splash at the 2015 Conservative Party Black And White Ball, where her father — worth a reputed £240 million — sat at Mr Cameron’s right hand. So far, Jacqueline has only picked up a CBE, but it can’t be long before she joins Baroness Brady on the Tory benches.
I see in the press today WHU made a donation to the Tory party as a club. Businesses can do what they want with their money of course but it does show further the levels of connectedness between them.
Got a link?
It was in the i paper this morning. Only £12,500 but that's not really the point.
All they can afford after the big outlay on the stadium move...
Funny that this satirical website with made up quotes have managed to say something almost identical to what our CEO *actually* said in real life...
"We’re not really bothered about what anyone thinks. While the fans might think that paying money gives them some rights, or some artificial sense of ownership, it doesn’t."
Actually re-reading that link it seems the opening paragraph is might be the bit that's true and it's only the quotes that follow that are made up. Anyone have a copy of the i?
"Premier League club West Ham United is facing criticism from Labour MPs after a revelation from the Electoral Commission that a £12,500 donation was made to the Tory party in January. The following month the club’s chairman, David Gold, and vice-chairman, Karren Brady, attended the Tory party’s annual black and white ball in London reports the i."
Just got a Whats App from the OSC, and it seems the story is genuine, Doug from Orient has sent a snap of the article which claims the info has come from the Electoral Commission. Should get a link at some point, and will post it if no one else does. Interesting...
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I hope that all the expensive legal talent currently figuring out the financial benefits being showered on WHU will also find a moment to calculate the football-inflationary effect of a caked-up West Ham being able to join the big boys in bidding for top talent.
The latest addition to Stratford's highly impressive transport portfolio - The Gravy Train.
But I will keep this thread posted, as appropriate.
Thank you so much Boris.
Oh...err....yes.....ummmm....well don't forget to make a nice donation to the party...erm...um...yes. More champagne please garcon!
I simply can't believe that there aren't West Ham fans who think it's appalling, but what do they care? Huh?
To heaven it high stinks.
This whole affair is a spaghetti of left/right entanglements. Doubtless the lack of a clear division on party political lines has brought about an uneasy mutual smokescreen - will the true story ever be allowed to emerge ? The septics call this pork-barrel politics - bacon sandwich, anyone ?
WHU's brazen Tory contributions - shameless. Labour's co-conspirators (especially Newham's heirs to Kier Hardie) - shameful.
Yes please, need that link, ta.
Take, for example, Karren Brady, since 2014 a Conservative peer, and something of a protégé of the Prime Minister — as well as being Lord Sugar’s obliging sidekick on The Apprentice. This self-made woman is also Mr Cameron’s ‘Small Business Ambassador’, which, on paper, sounds very good.
But she cut her teeth working for David Sullivan, who in the Seventies owned sex shops, pornographic magazines and a number of massage parlours. In 1982, Sullivan was convicted of living off immoral earnings, and served 71 days in jail. Some mentor for the young Karren Brady!
Mr Sullivan is now co-owner of West Ham United Football Club with David Gold, also a former pornographer. Their vice-chairman is none other than David Cameron’s new friend, Baroness Brady.
She distinguished herself, and helped to enrich West Ham, by playing a key part in negotiations which resulted in the Olympic Stadium being leased for a song to the club. This means that taxpayers subsidised West Ham with facilities worth a staggering £701 million — including £257 million to convert the stadium to football use — with the Government only getting back £15 million.
Oddly, there is someone else connected to West Ham who has also caught the Prime Minister’s eye. Jacqueline Gold is daughter of the aforementioned David, and something of a chip off the old block. As chief executive of Ann Summers, she is best known for bringing the ‘Rampant Rabbit’ sex toy to our shores.
Ms Gold has become a bit of a mover and shaker in Tory circles, and made quite a splash at the 2015 Conservative Party Black And White Ball, where her father — worth a reputed £240 million — sat at Mr Cameron’s right hand. So far, Jacqueline has only picked up a CBE, but it can’t be long before she joins Baroness Brady on the Tory benches.
http://www.satiricaltimes.co.uk/Stories/west-ham-pays-tory-party-12500-to-attend-lavish-ball/
"We’re not really bothered about what anyone thinks. While the fans might think that paying money gives them some rights, or some artificial sense of ownership, it doesn’t."
ismight be the bit that's true and it's only the quotes that follow that are made up. Anyone have a copy of the i?"Premier League club West Ham United is facing criticism from Labour MPs after a revelation from the Electoral Commission that a £12,500 donation was made to the Tory party in January. The following month the club’s chairman, David Gold, and vice-chairman, Karren Brady, attended the Tory party’s annual black and white ball in London reports the i."
Was this it, @Bournemouth Addick ?