PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

pace89 said:
That's not really true.

The VAO would take into account a range of features and amenities including developments such as patios and paved driveways to inform council tax banding decisions and this applied all over the UK. The Tories instructed the VAO to end this work as part of their agenda to keep council tax artificially low. 15 years later councils are practically insolvent, the public services for which they are responsible are in dire straits and they have been stripped of capacity to anything that may support economic development or improve public services.

The idea that patios and built in wardrobes would have been subject to a tax.

In contrast, the economy grew in every year that Brown was Chancellor, public satisfaction with the NHS was at record levels, roads weren't full of potholes, new schools had been built, the armed forces retained war fighting capacity. And no councils were going bust. A terrible chancellor wouldn't have delivered any of these things.
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And it was Brown who oversaw the creation of the monetary policy committee to independently fix interest rates - a move vehemently opposed by the opposition, but a very wise move.
 
Dribble said:
Would she have asked the question if our owners were from America, where the Mango Mussolini recently tried to steal an election, kill the elected Leader of the House, execute his own Vice President, overthrow the government, all in a "democracy" where shopping at Walmart with an AK47 slung over your shopping trolley handle is perfectly normal & legal?
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Maybe it’s down to executions, oops below the US still….

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Alan Harper's Tash said:
Anyway, we’re going round in circles. I think we’ve all put our points across and now we can return to slagging off the next journalist to ask a question or suggest something bad.

Today Tiffin, tomorrow SJIAC will be no doubt top of the agenda.
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I don’t bother with that I report them straight to the IPSO instead once I’ve sent an initial email/letter to their editor.
Got to start somewhere with this witch hunt that’s going on.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There is an underlying narrative in the media which can't be shifted. It is essentially a colonial/racist atttitude that somehow money from the Gulf region can't be trusted. The UAE is not even in the top 100 places for human rights abuses and a long way behind Russia, most of Africa and South America, and of course the USA. It is one of our best allies in a very unstable part of the world and one of our biggest trading partners. Without overseas investment Manchester would be like Middlesbrough because we have had precious little investment from successive London goverments of all politcal persuasions. No amount of sneering from posh people at the BBC will change that reality.
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Not just the BBC. Try those on the right with the Telegraph and the Mail.

They hate the UAE. They don't want the Telegraph part owned by Sheik Mansour.
 
argyle said:
Not just the BBC. Try those on the right with the Telegraph and the Mail.

They hate the UAE. They don't want the Telegraph part owned by Sheik Mansour.
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I think it’s more about losing control, they’ll oppose anyone that isn’t like minded.
 
LeonardoDaVnci said:
The 5 person PL board who collectively chose to charge City with the "115" includes a barrister/judge Mathew Ryder. He describes himself as a "passionate" football fan (well he would do). He's very coy in public about where he directs his football "passion". He uses X to express his views on legal matters and hand out guidance to rookie lawyers.
In his tweet below he emphasises the critical distinction between FACT and OPINION. So can we assume the PL submissions will be devoid of opinions, conjecture and unjustifiable inferences when dealing with our Etihad sponsorship?, Hope he's not a hypocrite...
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He sounds like a prick
 
LeonardoDaVnci said:
The 5 person PL board who collectively chose to charge City with the "115" includes a barrister/judge Mathew Ryder. He describes himself as a "passionate" football fan (well he would do). He's very coy in public about where he directs his football "passion". He uses X to express his views on legal matters and hand out guidance to rookie lawyers.
In his tweet below he emphasises the critical distinction between FACT and OPINION. So can we assume the PL submissions will be devoid of opinions, conjecture and unjustifiable inferences when dealing with our Etihad sponsorship?, Hope he's not a hypocrite...
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Sounds a fucking moron.
 
Son of Merv said:
I can understand why they don't back him more.
I'm thinking of the NW Tonight piece on the topping out of the new arena as an example. Nearing completion of Europes largest, state of the art indoor arena, Burnham is interviewed and is naturally buoyant about the project. So what does Annabel Tiffin ask.. 'this is all well and good, but how do you feel about accepting investment from a country with such an appalling human rights record?'. (The way she emphasized 'appalling', I thought she was going to throw-up)
Anything positive MCC say about any investments will be totally twisted into a 'whatabout...?' and it's just not worth their while to stick their head above the parapet.
Frankly, if some people dont appreciate what UAE (and Chinese, for that matter) investment has done for the residents of Manchester, they should piss off to one of the many bankrupt shithole cities that will charge them a fortune in CT to not empty their bins.
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What was his reply, out of interest?
 
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