Pleased to see the Club recognised for CelticLive, the stadium WiFi and content imitative by the European Club Association. Anything which builds our profile at the ECA is welcome.
Today’s Telegraph assures us Newco Rangers chief executive, Graham Wallace, is set to leave the club with his plans to raise £4m at a pending share issue still in the balance. The newspaper further asserts the club is a “toxic brand” and is trying to secure an emergency loan from Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley.
The club, which informed the Court of Session on Friday that it had only £1.2m cash left, and last night informed the Telegraph it was losing £1m per month, requires vastly more money than the £4m they are struggling to raise in order to finish the season.
Some credit is due to the Daily Record for their splash with photo and leader, “Rangers director Sandy Easdale and a criminal wanted by Interpol tried to negotiate an Ibrox bailout yesterday”. They are reporting two years after Paul McConville’s blog initially broke the news of said Interpol-interested character, Rafat Rizvi.
Rizvi, who can take refuge in the UK as we don’t have an extradition treaty with Indonesia, is allegedly wanted for corruption, money laundering and banking crime, denies the charges, which he has already been convicted of. He should fit in quite well.
As we said at the weekend, irrespective of short-term events, the long-term fundamentals remain unchanged. The only thing to be decided is which of the characters hovering around the carcase will get to pick on the bones.
All credit to Sir David Murray.
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Bawsman
00:18 on
11 September, 2014
That would be a good outcome but according to TwittterYes if its a No they will embark on a series of punishing actions that will put us in our place.
I was reflecting the other day on two trips down to London to visit my daughters.
On two separate occasions I found myself in company of their neighbours, some from professional backgrounds. I was struck by how friendly and open they were to me.
I have no idea who they voted for but they were reasonably affluent and very down to earth. They have to put up with WM as well.
goodnight timland
roll on saturday
HH
Natknow
Maybe the dept you work in is not affected, but tell my wife it is not a fact. Tell my children who hardly see their mother that it is not a fact.
MWD
They cannot announce it as Government Policy at this time because of the Purdah rules preventing that.
They can make campaign trail promises but not as Government spokesmen.
Simples
Further to previous I had a look to see if there were any Food banks in Hampshire and there are 13!
http://www.trusselltrust.org/map
so its not just Scots that WM policies are affecting.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
00:30 on
11 September, 2014
Thanks. That was the impression I gained that as a socialist he wanted to fight for the UK worker and needed the unity of workers throughout the UK to elect Labour to do that.
The problem of course was Labour moving too far to the right so that they lost that connection with the working man.
Auldheid
After the 3 main parties panicked yesterday and headed north who do you vote for in the next general election? I for one haven’t a clue!
Mind blowing. Never have they looked weaker. Saltire over Downing Street? Why? Just ridiculous behaviour. The UK no matter what the result has lost a lot of credibility this week, bet the other European nations are amused!
LB
Saint stivs, James Connolly would vote YES of course.
Only our rivers run free
Keep the Faith vote YES
Margaret McGill
23:48 on
10 September, 2014
Auldheid
23:46 on 10 September, 2014
Has it been substantiated yet that the SFA represented “Rangers” without substance and that Celtic knew this?
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Sorry I missed the follow up. I thought the assume yes was to my first response.
The answer cannot be Yes or No because the question is wrong.
What I can say is you can take Celtic totally out of the equation and the SFA have questions to answer.
SFTBs
What happens when their so called extra powers go through Parliament en English and Welsh MPs are told by their constituents not to support this because we’ve voted no and don’t deserve anything else?
There is not a chance this will work because it is even less clear what you are getting than with Independence.
livibhoy
00:51 on 11 September, 2014
Saltire over Downing St?
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29129317
This from the same reptiles who told Glasgow City Council that flying the Palestinian flag at City Chambers was “gesture politics”.
snake plissken
Yes
A WM general election due in May 2015 and 280 Conservative MPs scared of losing seats to UKIP are going to obediently file brought the lobbies to approve additional powers for a Scottish Parliament
Aye and ahm oan a hoat date and a promise fae Christina Hendricks efter the game on Saturday.
Snake
Same as always happens.
Most of them will obey the party whip and grovel to their constituents. A few rebels may listen to the voters but not many. It is just another campaign promise. It really cannot be counted upon for much.
And that is not a partisan point. That applies to both sides.
Goodnight to you all
File through the lobbies
Squire
I don’t get it at all. The cynic in me says that one someone is that desperate to keep you then maybe you have something of worth. For me it was a huge own goal for the better together campaign. They may have gained some No votes in the city of Edinburgh financial houses today but their very presence there probably boosted the yes vote in other parts of the country.
LB
SFTBs and Squire Danaher
I suppose then it comes down to who you trust.
I don’t trust anything to be delivered by the Westminster lot because the groundswell of public opinion in England and within Westminster itself will be to punish Scotland and take away the freebies as they see it.
Those holding their seats until May 2015 are going to have a lot of disgruntled constituents if they give more powers to Scotland and this will cost them.
It only takes enough of the English and Welsh MPs to get together to block it from all parties to either kick it into the long grass or drop it all together.
If you believe that after a no vote we’ll be allowed powers to continue with free prescriptions, bus passes, no tuition fees and the like while other parts of the UK have to have them you are a far more trusting man than me and maybe that is to your credit.
I on the other hand will take no pleasure in being right but I will say I told you so if proved correct.
Auldheid
00:54 on 11 September, 2014
So its a mibbes aye mibbes naw answerable question that facilitates endless waffledom?
Like up till now?
LiviBhoy
00:51 on
11 September, 2014
Auldheid
After the 3 main parties panicked yesterday and headed north who do you vote for in the next general election? I for one haven’t a clue!
Mind blowing. Never have they looked weaker. Saltire over Downing Street? Why? Just ridiculous behaviour. The UK no matter what the result has lost a lot of credibility this week, bet the other European nations are amused!
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The problem is that this referendum is being treated like a general election and it is not, but a Yes vote means that the next General Election will be fought on an entirely different basis, because it will only apply in England.
I believe they are looking at postponing it until after Scotland separates as it would be wrong to have Scots MPs voting on matters English who would not be around when the resulting Parliament ended.
However if it is a No, I believe the party who gets in power will be the one that recognises the lessons of a close referendum and seeks a mandate on policies that bring the country (ie UK) back to a more centrist path in recognition of the fact that the UK as a whole and its continuing existence as the UK, depends on Scotland not just for the resources they bring to the table but the price of agreed access to them is not just in £p but also recognises social justice values and policies implemented with empathy across the UK as a whole.
I mean ATOS and The Bedroom tax, how alien to empathy are they ffs? I know there had to be reduction in public spending but why no tax increases to reduce the cuts and more thought given to the human cost of benefit cuts, not just to those directly affected but the wider supporting family to reduce the impact on all?
I remember having a discussion with an English chap last time I was in London.
English chap: if Scotland get independence you won’t see my money again!
Me: really?
English chap: yep I won’t go to Scotland I will spend me cash elsewhere.
Me: how often do you visit Scotland?
English chap: never been. Heard its nice tho. Me and the wife have been meaning to go for years. Got a time share in Spain tho. Go there twice a year.
Me: (shakes head)
LB
Auldheid
A very decent response. If the big vote is no I can’t see anything other than a Cameron and Farage double act in Westminster after the next election. Pray I am wrong tho.
LB
Brendan O’Carroll on who do you think you are bbc2 now, worth watching.
Auldheid
00:54 on 11 September, 2014
Its a pity the major stakeholders in Celtic PLC dont have a vested interest in res 12 else you’d have an answer by now.
Dont be disappointed in more misrepresentation as they continue to delay for the never ending downward spiral of hundom to collapse in itself or maybe a Sept 18th distraction so that they can stall further and commit to nothing.
Like up till now.
Margaret McGill
01:15 on
11 September, 2014
Auldheid
00:54 on 11 September, 2014
So its a mibbes aye mibbes naw answerable question that facilitates endless waffledom?
Like up till now?
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One of the downsides of the approach that had to be taken to make progress is having to put up with comment such as this.
They belittle considerable effort that you necessarily know nothing about, not because we do not want to say more (and we have plenty to say), but because that would stop the one inroad we have for getting at the truth.
Auldheid
00:11 on
11 September, 2014
justafan
23:59 on
10 September, 2014
As I recall the Unions in Callaghan’s time had the final say in what was to happen in any factory or office. A sensible efficiency if it meant one man being able to do what two did before was resisted.
That made Britain inefficient and uncompetitive. By being unrealistic about the nature of business the Unions provided Thatcher with an opportunity to take them on and by God she took it.
I had to deal with the consequences that were most unpleasant and certainly delayed my career for quite a few years. The methods used were extreme in my view but the balance had swung too far left for the country’s health opening the way for a swing in totally the opposite direction.
The thing about the Tories though is that they never learn when they have gone too far until they run out of road.
Auldheid
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Well.
Marvellous to see realism about the `70s instead of ideology and the rewriting of history to suit a particular agenda.
The bleak decade of hopelessness in Britain was characterised by the nihilism of punk rock.
Not to mention the nearly “ten in a row”.
Oh wo wo,it`s magic,you know………………………..:-(
Since the Thatcher ‘Boom” British manufacturing has collapsed and its main foreign trade has been in financial services. Hence the London “Boom”. On a recent visit to Scotland the hinterland is worse off than when I can remember. Even at financial trading services the London based sector is crap at doing business. It’s basically corrupt and been funded from an unknown source leading to a large national debt. So I hear :). If Scotland does get its independence it should dump the debt too. How about using Swedish Krona or Bitcoins? Does it matter?
Britcoins even?
Auldheid
01:28 on 11 September, 2014
Trust me. I know.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
01:34 on 11 September, 2014
yeah the bleak decade of the 70’s was replaced by the bright egalitarian humanitarian 80’s. Away and bile yer heed. Its the reason I had to leave Bwittain.
Bawsman
The SNP did vote against labour in 1979
Reasons where aplenty
Main reason-POLITICALLY – the 40% ruie in the then devolution referendum.a political betrayal from labour who inserted that rule due to the cobbled together voting nature of their power(liberals,ulster unionists, snp etc,
The assertion it gave us thatcher is electorally true, politically it is convenient for a labour oarty in disarray and which was unvoteablr (one sided memory at play)
ECONOMICALLY- The labour party at the insistence of the International Monetary Fund introduced freidmanite monetarist policies ending the post war keynesian concensus.The £583 billion bail out resulted in a labour government cutting public expenditure right across the board, it enabled thatcher to goad micheal foot then labour leader that her chancellors cuts where not as severe as Denis healeys.it resulted in mass industrial unreat, which as a fragile govt it could not contain
SOCIALLY- The cuts above resulted in strkes across every facet of the public sector.teachers out, health workers with no morale, army in for fire brigade and piles upon piles of rat infested rubbish on our street.queens park recs, south pollok.strike action would be called no matter how many ‘pie and pint’sessions were held by jim callaghan with union leaders len murray/jack jones.These union actions also affected the private sector as secondary picketing was allowed so affecting industries not nationalised.unemployment was rising due to monetarist cuts (recall thatchers labour isnt working poster in 1979)
Having no introspection is not new for labour, as I assert above socially, economically and politically they messed up.just like gordon and alistair did in the last decade by deregulating banks alongside easing access to money/credit.
Blame the snp if you like for thatcher, to me its a bit like saying you left the tap on and that flooded your house…when really you bolted due to save yourself from an incoming tsunami.
Hope your well :-)
HH
Would a Yes or a No vote affect Celtic’s offer to Spurs of sharing Celtic Park while their new stadium is being built?
The additional income would surely be of ‘interest’ to us, as well as broadening the minds of the EPL. Celtic Park would then, of course, become a registered home ground, even if only for a season, of a team in the EPL.
Is Spurs one of the teams that we could accept playing their ‘home’ games at Paradise?
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/article/165/9463444/tottenham-to-move-out-of-white-hart-lane-for-a-season-during-new-stadium-build
LookingforawayintoEPLCSC
AN TEARMANN
It was nowhere near £583bn.
Try £2.3bn.
Maggie.
Seriously.
The suggestion that it was ” All Thatcher`s fault ” is unsustainable.
You must remember this.
1976 sterling crisis[edit]
James Callaghan came to office in 1976. He was immediately told the economy was facing huge problems, according to documents released in 2006 by the National Archives.[29] The effects of the 1973 oil crisis were still being felt, with inflation rising to over 27% in 1975.[30] Financial markets were beginning to believe the pound was overvalued, and in April that year The Wall Street Journal advised the sale of sterling investments in a story titled “Goodbye, Great Britain. It was nice knowing you”.[31] At the time the UK government was running a budget deficit, and Labour’s strategy emphasised high public spending. Callaghan was told there were three possible outcomes: a disastrous free fall in sterling, an internationally unacceptable siege economy, or a deal with key allies to prop up the pound while painful economic reforms were put in place. The US government feared the crisis could endanger NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC), and in light of this the US Treasury set out to force domestic policy changes. In November 1976 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced the conditions for a loan, including deep cuts in public expenditure.[32]
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The living conditions of Tims as demonstrated on this board are infinitely better than those I left late `70s.
Guys have mortgages.Travel abroad.Discuss the relative merits of malt whiskies.Fathers proud of the degrees attained by their children.
This is a dramatic improvement on the conditions of the Tims of my day.
How did that happen?
Who`s to blame?
BMCUW
Sorry the same deflection was suggested by yourself as a spoiler the other day, it was my figure and I may be forced to buy you a 2nd pint when your next up as explainin it to you will take time :-):-).if it were your figure it would have been rounded up.
Think 1975 Bmcuw
Inflation at 26%
FT index at 156
Trade deficits
Industrial unrest
Post oil crisis of 1973
Hope yir well ya bam lol your spoiler is wrang
HH ;-)
BMCUW
On the more interestin point you up this weekend or in a month?when you in McGhuills?
HH
AN TEARMANN
I’m back on 4/10,mate.
Saturday is just a chance for you all to whoop it up in my absence!
Funny how the moon howlers can debate the referendum issues, politely and without ad hominem attacks or resorting to improper and inappropriate language.
It makes a wee change.
It is of course the night of the super moon.
Pity it’s cloudy.
I can’t wait to see us shear the sheep.
I’m happy to trust George Galloway on the BBC reason for dropping him from the show.
The CIA and American resources were spent trying to discredit him and failed. He’s losing me on the vote though
‘GG
04:36 on
11 September, 2014
I can’t wait to see us shear the sheep.
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This may well be interpreted by some, as a reference to inappropriate relations.
Such is the lot of the sun ( beatin` doon on ma heid in Oz) howlers.