Argus buries Simon Kirby story

[Cheshire Cat]

It is quite difficult trying to convince the City that the government has a plan for brexit, when it is quite obvious that they haven't got one at all.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Not really.

The thread has been hijacked by those (including myself) who are having a downer on Simon Kirby, where the real story, as elicited by the OP, is that the Argus has buried a story which criticises a Tory MP, especially where (and they do have previous on this) with either Caroline Lucas or Peter Kyle, a story of this size would almost certainly be front page news.

Pretty much. And the point made earlier, that they had run the story previously on the website, suggests that they could easily have given it a decent run in the print version. But for reasons of their own, chose not to.

Conspiracy or uselessness? I usually believe the latter, actually.

 

[LowKarate]

The only good thing I will say for him is that he supports our club and is a double North Stand season ticket holder.

What makes someone a double season ticket holder?

Is he so big that he needs 2 seats?
Does he buy another seat for another person?
Has he had a STH for 2 seasons in a row?
Are both seats used every game? If not, are they made available on the Ticket Exchange?
Are these seats occupied for a full 90 minutes of every game or are they vacated after 80 minutes of use?

So many questions and nowhere near enough answers.

As he is a public servant we should have a Public Inquiry into 'seatgate'

 

[seaford]

From my reading of the article in the "i", the City were not happy with his credentials and were not confident in his ability to represent their interests.
The other interesting part of the article stated that Kirby "is the country's first City minister who did not have either a background in financial services or a doctorate in economics".

In a business environment I would be looking at the hiring managers for the role and giving them a kicking.

 

[Chicken Run]

He co-ran a pub chain with Martin Webb, who canvassed for Labour in Hove in 2015.

The dropping of 'Radford' from his name was an instruction from the Conservative Central Office for the 2010 General Election, as they felt double-barrelled names might put people of voting for 'posh people'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ells-leader-I-like-double-barrelled-name.html

Well I would hardly describe him as posh!

 

[Chicken Run]

He's likely to lose his seat at the next election with the boundary changes, in any case.

Mmm, you do actually know the boundary changes do you?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Mmm, you do actually know the boundary changes do you?

Yes, I've seen the new boundaries. It hasn't been passed yet, but if it does, it will vastly increase the Lib Dem vote.

 

[Chicken Run]

Yes, I've seen the new boundaries. It hasn't been passed yet, but if it does, it will vastly increase the Lib Dem vote.

Ok then[emoji106]

 

[Hugo Rune]

I doubt he could name a single Albion player.

He was at Newcastle away with his son. I do hope he was able to name a player or two.