Dogs Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 Heard he's been arrested for dodgy building deals and witnesses intimidation ? O dear ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storm in a teacup Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 BBC News - Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson arrested in bribery probe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-55192375 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 labour party have sacked him...... he looks a wrong'en if i remember rightly....years ago... Sadic Khan was involved (hearsay) in a bit of a naughty property deal that went nasty...and 2 men got beaten up in an indian resteruant one night funny old world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 He always looked shifty on the TV 🤔😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 22 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: He always looked shifty on the TV 🤔😁 Must be guilty then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 He's from Liverpool, he is whiter than white it's why he is mayor. Where else can you find an honest Scouser 😃 Is this the same fella who was spouting he was going to flout covid restrictions when the government told him to implement them. Funny how he's now dirty 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 Just use the good old "would you buy a used car from this man" test and avoid him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 Dodgy deals in the construction industry have been the order of the day on Merseyside for decades particularly where "public services" are involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 8 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said: He always looked shifty on the TV 🤔😁 I spent 28yrs checking people out and I agree I had the same feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 41 minutes ago, Walker570 said: I spent 28yrs checking people out and I agree I had the same feeling. Hello, well if it turns out that he was involved as the news report stated so much for those that voted him mayor, not forgetting the people of Liverpool have doing their best to get through this pandemic, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) Liverpool, + Labour Party, people must have short memories if they are surprised the legacy of Derek Hatton's era lingers He's been arrested too apparantly Back in those days they didn't even keep it secret, Edited December 5, 2020 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Walker570 said: I spent 28yrs checking people out and I agree I had the same feeling. soooo thats what you were doing...................and we all thought you were "the squirrel assasin...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, ditchman said: soooo thats what you were doing...................and we all thought you were "the squirrel assasin...." Naw that was only between shifts 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 2 hours ago, ditchman said: soooo thats what you were doing...................and we all thought you were "the squirrel assasin...." 28 years is a long time to do an investigation, almost as long as it took to catch a mole! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Heron Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 Are we really supprised at this? 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, The Heron said: Are we really supprised at this? 🤔 I'm not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 Corruption between council officials and developers has been known for a long time: Whilst my old company had done the scheme for the project that lost out in the last two in this Chinatown competition: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/13/buyer-funded-development-scandal I had done the scheme and brochure, our client was a proven developer with strong track record, and offered more money to the city for the land deal. Yet lost out with Nick Kavanagh the judge. The creation of these powerful mayors is idiotic as it is a breeding ground for corruption to concentrate power in just one person. I’ve met Joe Anderson a few times, he’s opened a few of our buildings etc. He’s just an old man, he has no charisma or intellect that would suggest his trajectory to high office and political dominance of a city. However he has been very good over Coronavirus. Taking it seriously from day one and calling out those who break the rules. His brother has subsequently died of it, so to say he was anything other than cooperative with the central government policy would be grossly unfair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, Vince Green said: Liverpool, + Labour Party, people must have short memories if they are surprised the legacy of Derek Hatton's era lingers He's been arrested too apparantly Back in those days they didn't even keep it secret, Hatton and Anderson are opposite ends of the Labour Party. Anderson has very little political conviction. Hatton certainly has some very capitalist tendencies for a former socialist. He cost this city many years. The interesting thing about Hatton was how badly the police handled it. I accept they were probably led by eegits back in the day but for example one of my memories is our house being raided (single mum with 5 young children) and searched by uniformed officers - all because my father was a prominent architect in the city. His practice didn’t even work on city projects didn’t seem to be a factor in the police thinking 🙈 Edited December 6, 2020 by WalkedUp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liverpool-mayor-joe-anderson-arrested-by-police-in-bribery-inquiry-m2m85zdb8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 Hello, I see he has been bailed along with a few other people ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 1 hour ago, WalkedUp said: Corruption between council officials and developers has been known for a long time: Not just the developers but the construction companies and subbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 For residential development the construction companies have so much less money to make. Planning permission for a developer can be worth tens of millions in profit so a £50k bung to secure it is nothing. The construction companies are more likely to fix prices with each other to try and increase OHP rather than bribe anyone involved for tender processes. Contractors competing directly for local authority contracts on the other hand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, WalkedUp said: For residential development the construction companies have so much less money to make. Planning permission for a developer can be worth tens of millions in profit so a £50k bung to secure it is nothing. The construction companies are more likely to fix prices with each other to try and increase OHP rather than bribe anyone involved for tender processes. Contractors competing directly for local authority contracts on the other hand... Still very much a Merseyside stitch up - and as for security, don't even go there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsdad Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 On 05/12/2020 at 06:58, TIGHTCHOKE said: Just use the good old "would you buy a used car from this man" test and avoid him. Londoners clearly didn’t use that test... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 Security is very amusing. On sites the contractors have to pay for “security” so that they aren’t burnt to the ground. They pay bigger gangsters to stop the petty thieves. One site we had in Dovecot kept getting boilers nicked. The security guys went into the local pub and said if anything else gets touched we will burn this place down. Next it will be your house. Something was stolen. The pub was burnt down. Thieving stopped. Very much frontier “justice”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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