A few councillors did very well out of it I bet. Not that it will ever be investigated.
I’ve often thought that far too many Brits (English) would sell their own grandma and then complain they don’t birthday cards anymore.
Problem is stuff like this fills empty holes in council budgets (caused by central government cutbacks) and makes councils look like they are doing regeneration.
Does anyone remember that story from that comedian Dane Cook just after his height of popularity of how bewildered he felt when he realized his accountant brother had stolen/lost all his money, like as his new accountant went through everything it became clearer and clearer he had nothing left, that the person he trusted to have his best interest just didn’t until they got caught.
Looking back at the last 40 odd Years of the UK kind of feels like that.
Here’s another article about China’s involvement in Greater Manchester if anyones interested
A 999 year lease. 10 centuries. Councils turning over city centres for a fucking thousand years?
What is the actual point of that? It’s obscene. These buildings won’t even last that long. How are city planners supposed to work around adapting cities to future needs with 1000 year long leases?
I refuse to believe that the scheme would have been unviable with a 100 year lease. How can they tie up future generations like that? Rant rant rant.
This can’t be a coincidence – on Manchester Council Chief Executive Sir Howard Bernstein..
>A few months after Bernstein retired from the council, he was appointed as the senior strategic adviser for City Football Group, owned by Sheikh Mansour.
Wish the govt would do something about the rampant corruption of councils in this country, it’s even worse than Westminster, sometimes by an order of magnitude, as evidenced here
It’s like how you can buy our politicians for a pittance compared to what you would have to pay in another country. Politicians here can be bought for a few grand and a window box seat at a major sporting event, compared to the tens or hundreds of thousands you would spend in more corrupt countries. Foreign millionaires must be laughing at how badly we negotiate bribes here, it is no wonder they love our politicians so much.
It’s this sort of thing that really makes me hate the people that run this country so much
This is nothing. A NHS trust is renting a building they they have to repair(not the owner). The rental locks the NHS into a 25yrs leese and a fixed increase in rent every yr. The building is not fit for purpose so is empty. Not used.
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A few councillors did very well out of it I bet. Not that it will ever be investigated.
I’ve often thought that far too many Brits (English) would sell their own grandma and then complain they don’t birthday cards anymore.
Problem is stuff like this fills empty holes in council budgets (caused by central government cutbacks) and makes councils look like they are doing regeneration.
Does anyone remember that story from that comedian Dane Cook just after his height of popularity of how bewildered he felt when he realized his accountant brother had stolen/lost all his money, like as his new accountant went through everything it became clearer and clearer he had nothing left, that the person he trusted to have his best interest just didn’t until they got caught.
Looking back at the last 40 odd Years of the UK kind of feels like that.
Here’s another article about China’s involvement in Greater Manchester if anyones interested
https://manchestermill.co.uk/p/manchester-embraced-china-then-things-got-sticky
A 999 year lease. 10 centuries. Councils turning over city centres for a fucking thousand years?
What is the actual point of that? It’s obscene. These buildings won’t even last that long. How are city planners supposed to work around adapting cities to future needs with 1000 year long leases?
I refuse to believe that the scheme would have been unviable with a 100 year lease. How can they tie up future generations like that? Rant rant rant.
This can’t be a coincidence – on Manchester Council Chief Executive Sir Howard Bernstein..
>A few months after Bernstein retired from the council, he was appointed as the senior strategic adviser for City Football Group, owned by Sheikh Mansour.
Wish the govt would do something about the rampant corruption of councils in this country, it’s even worse than Westminster, sometimes by an order of magnitude, as evidenced here
It’s like how you can buy our politicians for a pittance compared to what you would have to pay in another country. Politicians here can be bought for a few grand and a window box seat at a major sporting event, compared to the tens or hundreds of thousands you would spend in more corrupt countries. Foreign millionaires must be laughing at how badly we negotiate bribes here, it is no wonder they love our politicians so much.
It’s this sort of thing that really makes me hate the people that run this country so much
This is nothing. A NHS trust is renting a building they they have to repair(not the owner). The rental locks the NHS into a 25yrs leese and a fixed increase in rent every yr. The building is not fit for purpose so is empty. Not used.