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He once said he could have bought us for £5m. Seriously.
5m pounds is a lot of dildos to sell.
At a tenner each that's only 500,000 frustrated woolwich wives. They're always banging on about their fanbase. Chuck in the pikies and it's a winner.
The point is he didn't buy us when we were financially vulnerable. He didn't have the money, and he backed the Birmingham horse. Small bloke, small time.
Few thoughts.
1. This is a scandal when it comes to public funds. Heads should roll.
2. If not for our new stadium, which will actually be loads better and will be our own, for real, this deal would hurt, but fortunately it doesn't hurt us.
3. It would pain West Ham so enormously to have us share their ground while we're rebuilding WHL and it looks like Brady's bluff that she had a veto when she doesn't is just that; a bluff. With the taxpayers being so fucking angry they have to make amends and one way is to generate more revenue for the tax payer by welcoming other tenants to share it. For West Ham, it would be like a girl you fancy and fall in love with agreeing to date you but then having to let some cunt you detest fuck her as well, knowing they don't respect her, and are going to fuck the shit out of it...and worse, she's going to love it because he's more exciting than you. After that the girl, even if she is sweet to you, is never your own...not that the stadium is really theirs anyway, but they will pretend like it is if it is just them. Thing is, it isn't just us either, there will be clubs every now and again who want to borrow the stadium for a year or two and they may now have to let them. Imagine how we'd feel if we had to share WHL to any fucker who wants it.
1. This is a scandal when it comes to public funds. Heads should roll.
2. If not for our new stadium, which will actually be loads better and will be our own, for real, this deal would hurt, but fortunately it doesn't hurt us.
3. It would pain West Ham so enormously to have us share their ground while we're rebuilding WHL and it looks like Brady's bluff that she had a veto when she doesn't is just that; a bluff. With the taxpayers being so fucking angry they have to make amends and one way is to generate more revenue for the tax payer by welcoming other tenants to share it. For West Ham, it would be like a girl you fancy and fall in love with agreeing to date you but then having to let some cunt you detest fuck her as well, knowing they don't respect her, and are going to fuck the shit out of it...and worse, she's going to love it because he's more exciting than you. After that the girl, even if she is sweet to you, is never your own...not that the stadium is really theirs anyway, but they will pretend like it is if it is just them. Thing is, it isn't just us either, there will be clubs every now and again who want to borrow the stadium for a year or two and they may now have to let them. Imagine how we'd feel if we had to share WHL to any fucker who wants it.
That's very deep about the girl: Would you like to lie on the couch and tell us all about it!
i concede. But i still think most football chairmen would take advantage of the situation too.
Did any of Khan or Goldsmith said something about this disgrace? it's election time and that's exactly the time to squeeze the melons with politicians.
Which they borrowed from the Govt Treasury at favourable interest rates, and then gave to Spam.
Wy didn't they just share with Wembley if they didn't mind not having their own spiritual home. There is no legacy for athletics at the OS. Well, if if you call 3 yrs out of 50 and only 100 days of those 3 yrs a legacy for UK Athletics it is. . They already have a home which is in dire need of an upgrade.
Whatever happened to the Picketts lock 43k arena?
At that time Moorcroft, head of UK Athletics said:
"Football didn't want to know about a permanent track around its pitch at Wembley and I don't blame them.
The two sports don't mix well. The alternatives suggested of a removable platform or retractable seating, as in the Stade de France, are just as bad.
They are both poor compromises. Both sports are better off on their own. The last thing we need now is another change of mind."
10 yrs later we did. And we paid £800m in total so as Athletics could hold a few weeks of pomp and ceremony, then give it to Spam, but retain the the luxury of using it for 2 days out of one month every year. What a legacy.
Much more sense to have built Picketts lock, rebuilt NSC or built another athletics stadium as a home for all meetings.
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I have got the feeling that the OS was just one big con. The only winners were McAlpine, construction, contractors, multinational corporations, hoteliers and buy to let landlords ( most MP's)
They quoted a price that was nearly trebled and all this time nobody thought about how this £500m stadium was going to be used afterwards.
We had a jolly over the summer whilst others were raking in money at the taxpayers expense.
The biggest winners in the con are Spam. Who had nearly £300m more of taxpayer money so they can move into the £500m taxpayer funded stadium.
The biggest losers are UK Athletics, who still haven't got a fit for purpose home with decent facilities, and will get a 'legacy' consisting of 2 days, once a month each year for 50 years.
Why spend £300m keeping a track for that?
Apparently we were working on the Olympic bid since 2000.
At the same time it was announced that Picketts lock was to be the location of the National Athletics Stadium. Shortly afterwards, in April 2000, it was also announced that it would be the site of the 2005 World Athletic Chmps. The proposed stadium had a capacity of 43,000 and cost of £87m. It had new training facilities for athletes, the High Performance Centre, The project was completely abandoned by the Government in October 2001 on the grounds of increased costs and inadequate transportation links!!
We had to give up the 2005 WAC.
Then Sport England and UK athletics went ahead with plans to create the best modern athletics training venue in the south of England, Lea Valley Athletic Centre, which was opened in 2007.
You'd have thought that seeing as they wanted a new home the people planning the bid would have thought about the need for a new modern Athletic home with top facilities.
You would have thought that when they won the bid that whoever they charged with building the place had to make sure the place could be downsized by 15k so they could have a purpose built home of athletics with an infrastructure afterwards.
This, 'it would have been sitting there with no use' statement bandied about by Brady is bollocks.
Who builds a stadium with £500m of taxpayer money having no idea of what it will be used for afterwards?
It has to be a con. Especially as historically, Bejing, Athens and WC's, there were major caveats.
They quoted a price that was nearly trebled and all this time nobody thought about how this £500m stadium was going to be used afterwards.
We had a jolly over the summer whilst others were raking in money at the taxpayers expense.
The biggest winners in the con are Spam. Who had nearly £300m more of taxpayer money so they can move into the £500m taxpayer funded stadium.
The biggest losers are UK Athletics, who still haven't got a fit for purpose home with decent facilities, and will get a 'legacy' consisting of 2 days, once a month each year for 50 years.
Why spend £300m keeping a track for that?
Apparently we were working on the Olympic bid since 2000.
At the same time it was announced that Picketts lock was to be the location of the National Athletics Stadium. Shortly afterwards, in April 2000, it was also announced that it would be the site of the 2005 World Athletic Chmps. The proposed stadium had a capacity of 43,000 and cost of £87m. It had new training facilities for athletes, the High Performance Centre, The project was completely abandoned by the Government in October 2001 on the grounds of increased costs and inadequate transportation links!!
We had to give up the 2005 WAC.
Then Sport England and UK athletics went ahead with plans to create the best modern athletics training venue in the south of England, Lea Valley Athletic Centre, which was opened in 2007.
You'd have thought that seeing as they wanted a new home the people planning the bid would have thought about the need for a new modern Athletic home with top facilities.
You would have thought that when they won the bid that whoever they charged with building the place had to make sure the place could be downsized by 15k so they could have a purpose built home of athletics with an infrastructure afterwards.
This, 'it would have been sitting there with no use' statement bandied about by Brady is bollocks.
Who builds a stadium with £500m of taxpayer money having no idea of what it will be used for afterwards?
It has to be a con. Especially as historically, Bejing, Athens and WC's, there were major caveats.
There was only ever going to be one winner. Wales is on the boards of both the LOCOG and OPLC ( now LLDC).
He has his own self interests at heart.
Thus is a man who borrows £50m and lent it to Spam in times of austerity and also gave himself a pay rise to £80k a year at a time when Govt called for public sector wage restraints and there were job losses and pay freezes at Newham Council.
He has spent £111m moving offices to a nice dockside block, 18m of it on design and refurbishment.
Its Newham's stadium, they have a stake in it.
“We’re delighted that West Ham United has been chosen by the London Legacy Development Corporation to become the main occupant of the Stadium. It is a community club which shares our vision for Newham and the local area' said Wales, who is on the board of the LLDC.
The official statement also said:
'The deal will generate hundreds of new jobs, encourage many thousands of visitors to the local area and act as a catalyst for further economic investment and growth in the area. The proposed sale of Upton Park also provides further regeneration opportunities.'
Er, you mean the sale of Upton Park will pay Spam's debts, making them debt free, allowing Spam to move into a stadium for £15m when the adaption costs were met by the Legacy Corp ( taxpayer) less than the Govts proposed £25m ( taxpayer money) and Newham's £50m( treasury loan).
There will be no affordable facts on the site of Upton Park. This is in a borough where they have had to make tough restrictions on social housing allocation applicants.
Maybe it would have been wiser to invest money buying Upton Park, after all Gilliard got it for peanuts according to Spam, and build Social Housing on it. You know, benefit local Newham residents on low wages.
:dierpochhug:Nothing that I'd consider to be a "veto" essentially if you pay the dosh, and the FA accommodate the schedules of the two clubs ( or 3 clubs or 4 or however many ) then it's totally fine. I think the cunts at West Ham profit to some degree, maybe 7.5 million, if another club share within an agreed period.
But yet again Karen "peer of the realm" Brady has lied her fat arse off in public. A member of the House of Lords, seriously no matter how often I type that I can't get over it ! A liar and an unelected politician..... Shame oh her
Yes, but when your the Government's Small Business Advisor & have a seat in the House of Lords should you be involved in anything that is detrimental to the public good for personal gain ? I'd suggest not. I could suffer this more if it were simply the Pimp and his mate, but Baroness Brady should not be anywhere near such a joke deal "great deal for the tax payer" how ? Surely there is a code of conduct somewhere that prevents a peer from a) lying to the public b) being involved in something that looks bad for the public and c) writing crap in a national newspaper about it to re enforce the lies. It's the total lack of humility shown that angers me so very much.
To borrow a well known quote "your so obsessed if you could you did not stop to think if you should" That very much is applicable here !
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That stadium will be a disaster. As soon as the novelty wears off they'll be stuck with it and no assets.
The porno brothers will have scarpered with the Upton Park money
The porno brothers will have scarpered with the Upton Park money
It's not funny, because it is true.