There’s a gentleman that’s going round
Turning the joint upside down
Stool Pigeon – ha-cha-cha-cha
He’s an old ex-con that’s been away
Now he’s back, no one’s safe
It’s quite likely that David Grier and Craig Whyte had many conversations they didn’t want replayed on BBC Reporting Scotland. Their deal to acquire Rangers from Sir David Murray and Lloyds Banking Group would have required many scenarios to be considered, some of which would certainly be unpalatable. So with this in mind, Grier may have been comfortable discussing strategy with Whyte when the latter recorded their conversation in May this year. They had been in the proverbial trenches together before and at one time would have had a bond of trust.
What frankly beggars belief is that either party would consider this bond to be still in place a month after Duff and Phelps sued Craig Whyte’s company for £25m. It’s even more surprising that Mr Grier and Mr Whyte were on such convivial terms – chatting liberally in a restaurant about such a serious matter – while they were supposed to be on opposite sides of a £25m legal action.
We now know that Rangers administration went miles off track soon after it started. Whyte, as we predicted back in October last year, hoped to present creditors and Scottish football with a fait accompli. Duff and Phelps were to complete the task within days for a fixed fee of a fraction of what they eventually raised.
Instead Duff and Phelps fee increased by a factor of six, Whyte lost control of events and inherited a great deal of litigation, not to mention a police inquiry. Duff and Phelps must now prepare to tell the truth to Lord Hodge next week. There are millions of pounds at play here and anything short of the truth could land them in heaps of trouble.
Credit to Mark Daly and Reporting Scotland for landing the recording. The BBC are taking a pounding this month but this was a stunning item for an evening news bulletin to present.
Craig Whyte, you will remember, threatened to sue Daly last year and managed to convince the hard of thinking that Daly, and the BBC, were victimising Rangers by dishing the dirt on Whyte. Some still adhere to this belief, despite now realising their Messiah was just a naughty boy, it’s a cognitive dissonance thing. Another lesson that football fans are fools for bombast.
After all the talk then they wired him
And he took a walk with his crooked friends
And they joked about the good old days
And he recorded it on a reel of tape
He caught the mug who did in the forgery
And the babe in charge of larceny
We have to wonder what liquidators BDO will make of Duff and Phelps actions when they take over next week. Ha-cha-cha-cha.
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Ronald Raegan on bbc2 now, 3rd rate president, 2nd rate actor, 1st rate spitting image puppet.
bed.
goodnight all.
Anyone wanting to go to the Weeoscar night from Gods town of Greenock and the poor towns around get in touch
TET – see above. How can there not be one, when at least £100M of taxpayers money is involved? It’s a huge scandal and not just in the context of British sport.
There are a few people who post on here who would know how to present all the relevant political & legal arguments in a carefully worded letter. After that, we get posting and mailing and spread the word.
T4
Any Stirling CQNers who want to share a taxi from the WeeOscar race night, let me know.
Doc
When you take a hun out of their enviroment, they are nothing, they thrive on being one of the peepil, and trust me, over here they are not one of the peepil.
………………………………..
JQB
Sleep well mi amigo.
I remember last week Celtic First mentioning that the Barce Police were out to get us,I honestly couldn’t believe that Barce people were like that.
But I must Agree with what Celtic First said,everywhere there was a gathering of Celtic Fans,there was a large gathering of police,
In the square off La Ramblas there were four large Police Vans strategically placed in three streets off. the square,You don’t have a dozen vans place around a square unless you expect trouble.
More so,after the game,when they blocked of a couple of stairwells and ferried us up to around a mile out of our way,and they’re performance on the stairwells was downright shocking,they could have caused a major catastrophe, Great that the Celtic Supporters didn’t accept their Bait on Tuesday.
Geordie M- He gives the club publicity you couldn’t buy.hh
Doc – I would love to see evidence of tangible links between Murray’s MIH/Oldco and Operation Hornet. As you say, they would find it difficult to stop an enquiry after that.
Probably involve names like Masterson, etc….alledgedly! :-)
T4
T4
I have probably sent over a hundred e-mails to various politicos,and all I have received is a standard thanks for your mail.
As has been said many times, us internet bampots can dig up all the info, but unless the msm say anything, nothing gets done, they are still the ones with the megaphone.
It will takes proper jurnos like Daly and Thompson to get anything done.
Thompson will be the one who can take it to the brits down south.
He still has a problem with saying anything against the masonic brotherhood though, that still is a worry for me.
T4, allegedly. But the more we see the more I believe.
Time alone will tell, but pressure on or political leaders will tell.
good night all can you all say a prayer that my sister and nephew get home from Barcelona tomorrow
Thanks
HH
I discovered id rather sit on cqn in work rather than actually do any work on cqn
Oldtim
you got back safe from Barcelona
have you seen twists recently
T4, TET, tomorrow I will look out the email from the Ayrshire politician who started making noises re-saving the Huns and post the contents, of to bed now, work in the morning.
Goodnight Bhoys.
Lets go Eurodance daft
What the hell do we care?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPQD2DUo20
Yes, we are living in the disco years, lets dance.
The Bhoy Jinky.
Are you going to the game on Saturday,could meet up,
No phone,so can’t contact you,other than by E-Mail.
When I looked at my e-mails this afternoon there were 985 mails received regarding facebook,they were sent in the 5 days I was away.
Thanks for the Mail Paul,received it a day late so wasn’t able to meet up with the person.
Sad that some folk still relate their happiness to an irrelevant daft wee division 3 club.
Doc
I could possibly pick you up (if bjmac agrees) on the way back from Pittodrie and take you directly to the race night.
Can’t help with the return journey though, sorry.
One last post, congratulations to Fraser Foster and Efe Ambrose, Champions League Team of the week, well deserved.
TET/Doc – the position of a certain Mr Dallas became untenable after a number of upright citizens contacted Strathclyde Police to register their concerns about allegations of sectarianism within the SFA….or so I hear!
I’m hopeful of enquiries, court cases and even incarceration for certain individuals!
T4
HT, that would be very welcome. Cheers. Bundoran Bhoy and CRC and Bjmac have my contact details.
HT, I live very close to the motorway, so pick up would be easy.
Oldtim
I don’t think the polis were expecting trouble from the Celtic supporters.
They would have been slaughterd by their own politicians if they had not been out in force, and there had been any trouble.
I picked up a couple of the Spanish sport papers in the morning, and they had nothing but praise for us, some even though we were a half decent football team.
They, unlike the scottish jurnos, do actually research their stories before the go to print, and they know we are a club who have very limited finances, and they thought we competed better than most who go to the Camp Nou do.
Doc – is that the same politician who lost his £1600 Club Deck debenture when they went bust?!
Night.
T4
oldtim67
unfortunately my nephew partially rose to the bait
was accused of hitting his aunt (she said he hadnt) by consierge he argued he hadnt was taken to holding cells that was tuesday night . Sister wasnt allowed to go with him told to follow in Taxi, when she got out they told her as it wasnt a station she couldnt see him , she stayed all night alone on a bench outside he’s still in cells hasnt had a phone call (not allowed one until tomorrow morning) has not had a lawyer, my sister hasnt been able to see him, has no change of clothes, and is appearing before judge tomorrow (sometime) but we dont know when .only flight to Dublin 3.30pm tomorrow but they cant say if he.ll be dealt with before then. why are we still allowed to be treated like this?
HH
T4, that is yer man, in correspondence he was polite, and to the point, perhaps I should send the email privately, it has that long disclaimer at the bottom.
Now bed.
THE EXILED TIM 23:50
I hope BT behaved in you company…
You going to Lisbon?
EN
HamiltonTim,
Did you hear the verdict from the edinburgh court (deliberate lower case)?
when the 4 horseman banner was displayed and include Craig Whyte i complained he was the wrong man, but now on refelction the googly eyed jockey is indeed waging war on the huns.
keep it lit
alasdair maclean
23:24 on
25 October, 2012
Just tuned in for a status and after reading back through six pages of complete nonsense discovered that you can’t always rely on CQN for your information.
What’s HAPPENING?
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Agree mate some real ‘noise’ on here tonight, should calm down soon.
T4
I think it was the involvement of the church that put paid to dallas.
We are talking bankers, politicos, the polis etc now, a very different ball game.
But pressure hopefully will out at the end of the day.
THE EXILED TIM, 23:40
Keep on keeping on and don’t forget only a year ago Jelavic was about to collect his medal.
Tomorrow will bring more shame and embarrassment upon them and to a broader audience than anyone Daly can reach. He doesn’t have a problem saying anything against anyone – he can only report on what he finds and can back up and there has to be a hook to hang his pieces off.
Masons isn’t one of them
What is the Stars.
No. I haven’t been on the blog much lately.I was wanting to speak to him re the Cesarewiche (sp) a couple of weeks ago He gave me a copy of horses that he had to follow a couple of years ago,and there were more winners than losers by a long way,any horses that were running I usually tipped him off that they were running that day.
Anyway,The cesarewiche a couple off weeks ago had one of the horses from the book,Can’t remember the name of it but it won at 66/1,first two letters of it’s name started Aa.I had a bet on it.
But hope tnt had a few on it if he saw it was running.
TET,
looks like our suspicions on media house getting a mention last night was spot on :o)
Estadio Nacional
He did, as did Oldtim, a couple of gents.
I will be in Lisbon for a few days, taking the wife with me this time, about an 8-9 hour drive, can’t get a direct flight from Granada so, at least we will have a bit of leway.
Doc
I’ll be in touch.
THE EXILED TIM 00:02
Glad you met two great fellas. Im planning on Lisbon via Madrid, hope to see you there.
EN
Oldtim
There is a horse in the last race at Wolves tomorrow night (Friday)
Its called Goal,its ridden by Fallon and its colours are Green and White Hoops,
It should win