Olympic Stadium deal to be investigated

What makes you suspect that?

 

RCL's post was clearly sarcastic/ironic, yours didn't seem to be at all. That's all. If so, it would be a legitimate viewpoint.

 

The fact that it didn't seem to be adds to the irony.

 

What would piss me off more about this entire shady episode is if the move had enhanced the Spanners' performances on the field. However, given that they are currently sitting just a point off the relegation zone, I cannot help but think that they are reaping their just-desserts.

I doubt few of us would have wanted THFC to move to that ground, so I certainly do not envy WHUFC the move.

Nonetheless, it is extremely frustrating that the fans of other clubs do not seem to appreciate the fact that it is all of us, as tax-payers, who have been swindled by the dodgy-dealings surrounding the acquisition by WHUFC, and gloat in the mistaken belief that this is something that affects only Spurs!

 

It s even more infuriating to see the long-repeated statement that the Spammers are just a good business that 'negotiated' a good deal - overlooking the fact that they were working hand-in-glove with Seb Coe, the LLDC and Newham Council from Day 1 and that their bid was always going to be the one accepted.
They may have benefited from the stupidity and romantic whim of Coe and his cronies to retain the Athletics legacy, but they are up to their necks in the associated corruption.
And the BBC (notably Dan Roan) continue to be their greatest apologists!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37843313
Quote: 'But others do not see why the club should be punished for doing its job, and for striking such a good deal for itself.' FFS!!!

 

I am going to the London Stadium on Sunday (Rugby League International). My seat is in row 28. I reckon the far side of the pitch will be half a mile away.

 

I went to the Olympics in 2012. I was at the back on the bend nearest the Olympic flame. It was a long, long way to where the farthest goal is now situated.

I was towards the back of our end at Wembley in '81. The end both goals went in during the first game was about as far away as it would be in Stratford. I had no idea that Hoddle's free kick hit Hutchinson until later that night. the view was shocking and I had good eyesight in those days. I'd be taking binoculars now to have any idea of what goes on from that vantage point. I wouldn't be keen on sitting there on any regular basis, no matter how cheap the ticket was.

The owners of West Ham have sold their fans down the river. Tottenham wanted to buy the site but wouldn't touch the stadium with a barge pole, even though it would have saved £500m and maybe more.

This entire episode is a stitch up. It has lined the pockets of some unpleasant individuals and a political party, furthered the ambitions of a bent sports administrator, been funded out of public funds at the expense of the taxpayer and to the detriment of the existing fan base of the club. Shameful.

 

For just £10 a month you can sponsor someone who really needs to find employment at the Olympic Park

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Shock horror! Tories strike bad deal for the nation.
1970s[edit]

• British Petroleum (1977, 1979, 1981, 1987)
• International Computers Limited (1979)
• Lunn Poly (1971)
• Rolls-Royce Motors (1973)
• State Management Scheme (1973)
• Thomas Cook (1972)

1980s[edit]

• Amersham International (1982)
• Associated British Ports (1983, 1984)
• British Aerospace (1981, 1985)
• British Airports Authority (1987)
• British Airways (1987)
• British Airways Helicopters (1986)
• British Gas (1986)
• British Leyland
  • Alvis (1981)
  • Coventry Climax (1982)
  • Danish Automobile Building (1987)
  • ISTEL (1987)
  • Jaguar (1984)
  • Leyland Bus (1987)
  • Leyland Tractors (1982)
  • Leyland Trucks (1987)
  • Rover Group (1988)
  • Unipart (1987)
• British Rail Engineering Limited (1989)
• British Shipbuilders (1985-1989, shipbuilder companies sold individually)
• British Steel plc (1988)
• British Sugar (1981)
• British Telecom (1984, 1991, 1993)
• British Transport Hotels (1983)
• Britoil (1982, 1985)
• Cable and Wireless (1981, 1983, 1985)
• Council houses (1980–present, over two million sold to their tenants) - see main article Right to buy scheme
• Enterprise Oil (1984)
• Fairey (1980)
• Ferranti (1982)
• Harland and Wolff (1989)
• Inmos (1984)
• Municipal bus companies (1988–present, bus companies sold individually) - see main article Bus deregulation in Great Britain
• National Bus Company (1986 - 1988, bus companies sold individually)
• National Express (1988)
• National Freight Corporation (1982)
• Passenger transport executive bus companies (1988 - 1994, bus companies sold individually)
• Rolls-Royce (1987)
• Royal Ordnance (1987)
• Sealink (1984)
• Travellers Fare (1988)
• Trustee Savings Bank (1985)
• Vale of Rheidol Railway (1989)
• Water companies - see main article Water privatisation in England and Wales
  • Anglian Water (1989)
  • North West Water (1989)
  • Northumbrian Water (1989)
  • Severn Trent (1989)
  • South West Water (1989)
  • Southern Water (1989)
  • Thames Water (1989)
  • Welsh Water (1989)
  • Wessex Water (1989)
  • Yorkshire Water (1989)

1990s[edit]

• AEA Technology (1996)
• Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (1997)
• Belfast International Airport (1994)
• Birmingham Airport (1993 - 51%)
• Bournemouth Airport (1995)
• Bristol Airport (1997, 2001)
• British Coal (1994)
• British Energy (1996)
• British Rail - see main article Privatisation of British Rail
  • 3 rolling stock companies:
    • Angel Trains (1996)
    • Eversholt Leasing (1996)
    • Porterbrook (1996)
  • 6 design office units (1995-1997, sold individually)
  • 6 freight operating companies
    • Freightliner (1995)
    • Loadhaul (1996)
    • Mainline Freight (1996)
    • Rail Express Systems (1996)
    • Railfreight Distribution (1997)
    • Transrail Freight (1996)
  • 6 track renewal units (1995 - 1997, sold individually)
  • 7 infrastructure maintenance units (1995 - 1997, sold individually)
  • 25 train operating companies (1996, operations contracted out as franchises)
  • British Rail Research (1996)
  • British Rail Telecommunications (1995)
  • European Passenger Services (1996)
  • Railtrack (1996) (18 October 2002 went into voluntary liquidation), now in public ownership as Network Rail
  • Red Star Parcels (1995)
  • Union Railways (1996)
• British Technology Group (1992)
• Building Research Establishment (1997)
• Cardiff Airport (1995)
• Central Electricity Generating Board
  • National Grid (1990)
  • National Power (1991, 1995)
  • Powergen (1991, 1995)
• Chessington Computer Centre (1996)
• Department for National Savings (1999, back office functions contracted out)
• East Midlands Airport (1993)
• Girobank (1990)
• Humberside Airport (1999 - 82%)
• Kingston Communications (1999, 2007)
• Laboratory of the Government Chemist (1996)
• Liverpool Airport (1990, 2001)
• London Buses (1994, bus companies sold individually) - see main article Privatisation of London bus services
• London Luton Airport (1997)
• London Southend Airport (1993)
• National Engineering Laboratory (1995)
• National Transcommunications Limited (1990)
• Natural Resources Institute (1996)
• Northern Ireland Electricity (1993)
• Property Services Agency (1994)
• Regional electricity companies
  • East Midlands Electricity (1990)
  • Eastern Electricity (1990)
  • London Electricity (1990)
  • MANWEB (1990)
  • Midlands Electricity (1990)
  • Northern Electric (1990)
  • NORWEB (1990)
  • SEEBOARD (1990)
  • Southern Electric (1990)
  • SWALEC (1990)
  • SWEB Energy (1990)
  • Yorkshire Electricity (1990)
• Scottish Bus Group (1991, bus companies sold individually)
• Scottish Hydro-Electric (1991)
• Scottish Power (1991)
• Severn Bridge (1992)
• The Stationery Office (1996)
• Student loans portfolios (1998, 1999, 2013)
• Transport Research Laboratory (1996)
• Trust Ports (1992–1997, ports sold individually)

2000s[edit]

• Actis (2004, 2012)
• BBC Books (2006 - 85%)
• BBC Broadcast (2005)
• BBC Costumes and Wigs (2008)
• BBC Outside Broadcasts (2008)
• BBC Technology (2004)
• British Nuclear Fuels Limited
  • AWE Management Limited (2008)
  • BNG America (2007)
  • BNG Project Services (2008)
  • Reactor Sites Management Company (2007)
  • Westinghouse Electric Company (2006)
• East Thames Buses (2009)
• Leeds Bradford International Airport (2007)
• National Air Traffic Services (2001 - 51%)
• Newcastle Airport (2001 - 49%)
• Partnerships UK (2000, 2011)
• Qinetiq (2002, 2006, 2008)
• South Eastern Trains (2006)
• Teesside International Airport (2003 - 75%)
• UKAEA Limited (2009)

2010s[edit]

• BBC Audiobooks (2010 - 85%)
• BBC Magazines (2011)
• Behavioural Insights Team (2014 - 67%)
• Bio Products Laboratory (2013 - 80%)
• Constructionline (2015)
• Defence Support Group (2015)
• Dr Foster Intelligence (2015)
• East Coast Trains (2015)
• Eurostar International Limited (2015 - 40%)
• Fire Service College (2013)
• Food and Environment Research Agency (2015 - 75%)
• Government Pipelines and Storage System (2015)
• High Speed 1 (2010)
• Lloyds Banking Group (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Manchester Airports Group (2013 - 35%)
• NEC Group (2015)
• Northern Rock (2012)
• Remploy (2012, 2013, 2015, factory businesses sold individually)
• Royal Bank of Scotland Group (2015)
• Royal Mail (2013, 2015)
• The Tote (2011)

Just consider most of those companies produced income for all of us now it is just the Tory mates. The Olympic Stadium is just another little project in line with all the above.

 

Reading that list has genuinely upset me.

The one I know particularly well is electricity since I was working for the CEGB just before "privatisation". I used the quotes deliberately because our electricity industry, sold partly on the basis to reduce "state interference", is now owned to a great extent by the national electricity company of France. Then there is the ludicrous excuses for hiking prices because of wholesale costs (where the companies are often the supplier and the wholesaler), but not reducing them under the same basis, the whole complex tariff thing and switching supplier, the lack of strategic planning and need for massive public subsidy to ensure a private nuclear power station is built (well private in some ways, in other ways owned by the French and Chinese governments), and many many more. It's depressing.

 

Worse than that, we're still paying for a lot of them.
The railways are probably the most obvious example.
Some things are just utterly stupid to privatise.