The report on Rangers on tonight’s Channel 4 News by Alex Thomson put meat on the bones of what has been going on at Rangers over the last decade or more. Former chief executive, Martin Bain, was revealed to have written to then-chairman, John McClelland, in late 2003 asking that his pay rise is paid through the club’s Employee Benefit Trust, which is not subject to Income Tax or National Insurance.
Bain goes on to make a sinister note to McClelland, “at the end of the meeting I gave her back the letter addressed to me from you that stated my contractual increase for her to shred.”
Shredding documents? Oh dear.
Bain declined to answer questions from Channel 4 but yesterday offered to drop his contractual claim against the club, suggesting his issue was with Rangers new owner, Craig Whyte. It was the most self-serving drivel I have read in a while.
If this was how he behaved as Rangers chief executive Whyte was right to suspend him last year. How Bain had the front to pursue Rangers for over £1m knowing the consequences of his letters to John McClelland beggars belief.
I wonder how HMRC view instructions to shred documents that could inform a view on a tax claim? These documents prove Rangers directors knew how EBTs worked, understood what they were doing and the consequences.
Paul Baxendale-Walker walked straight out of a Carry On movie to give a great cameo performance. In a couple of years some poor casting director is going to have to try to find actors to play Baxendale-Walker, Whyte, Bain, Paul Murray and Zsa Zsa himself. Could any actors do justice to these bizarre individuals?
I’d be interested in your suggestions. Zsa Zsa for Sir David is a given.
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Vmhan
http://t.co/0i9ArUJy
channel 4 news tonight
Enjoy.
MWD
Day2 of my wonderful wifes 40th celebrations…
one mor tim night tomorrow evening and if possible a righr good
night with the bhoys on Sunday…
Mrs BT you are a doll…
and a saint for putting up mith me…
Moonbeams
Sound pal.
Likewise.
Me and VP hoping to have a good day on Sunday.
HH.
HIvtae Run…
Good Night Scotland
Good Night Ireland
Good Night Wales
Good Night England
Good Night Canada
Good Night New Zealand
Good Night Australia
and
Good Night.. Curly Ferguson.. wherever You are.
Kojo
Still Laughin’… Sure, Dukes.. Ah am!
TET,prefer the version i posted at top of page,goosebumps
every time at the election announcement
@celticrumours: Hearing that 29th of april as been pencilled in for the final ever el Glasigo.
#celtic #rangers
MWD
BT
How are you my Blantyre friend ?
For oor philvisreturns.
No the worst
tarrant on 31 March, 2012 at 00:44 said:
I’ll probably be castigated, skewered and deboweled for this this but your post is why I only have one hun mate. Even the ‘mild’ ones have an intrinsic lack of understanding, it defies logic.
I’d rather talk to Tom Cruise and the psycho-oligists :-)
G64 wonderfulll.. o))
MWD no way thai tims that weekend no way we would play the orcs…
Philvisreturns IVO
Is a lefty trying to stir it up …..
Hey wait mibbee it’s because I want him to be a lefty because it wid fit with my round peg in a round hole view of life.
……….
The ONLY question Phil has to answer in the Vmhans opinion is ……
Whit team does Phil support? I already ken the answer :>)
onwards to victory!
V
G64
You n VP not joining us youngins for a couple after game on Sunday?
MWD
MWD
by the tim you turn up the game will be over…
HT
Did ye mean scientologists or were you having a go? :-)
BT
That’s true but how gloriously perfect would that be.
MWD
The South Pole after Channel 4 News
Ha Ha
BT
Should meet up soon for a beer
just to annoy VP.
The beer photo was classic.
Now wouldn’t it be nice that if the shredding officer (possibly the hardest working employee on the books) had made & kept a discretionary copy of every single document and that they somehow managed to turn up on a rubbish tip somewhere and accidentally be discovered by a C4 journo….
SFTB
My poor attempt at humour :-)
philvis,
I reckon the Young Tories playlist would be Phil Collins,Duran Duran,Screwdriver,Gary Newman and James Last. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcp8SE_FxBg&ob=av2n
Moonbeams
Where are you meeting ?
You know VP and me are creatures of habit
and will be in our second home.
The Vogue Bar Rutherglen.
Neil Lennon – A Celtic Giant
Sunday is a time to elevate this man even further.
gordybhoy64
It’s all about choices hermano.
I like the song when a woman sings it, the Mrs has me in tears when she sings it, she sings this one even better,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaHSt1bldU
ham’tim
I know. I can’t be arsed wiht them to be honest, but they’re her family so what do you do. I could’ve predicted the conversation. Of course, none of them wopld watch C4, and if they did they wouldn’t believe it.
I don;t actually care how they feel or how confused they are when the temple crashes…as long as it crashes.
HT
Mine’s too
Told ye a wuz…
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VMHAN gets it in a wanny.
The ONLY question Phil has to answer in the Vmhans opinion is ……
Whit team does Phil support? I already ken the answer :>)
onwards to victory!
G64
I’ve already emailed VP are you not coming out for a while on Sunday?
Kitalba at 00.56,
big smile on my face glad i opened another cidre now
Kojo – I find it difficult to disagree with your thoughtful post at 00:44
Thank God the United States of America is still a beacon of liberty in this weary world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x8kMvitM4 (thumbsup)
Moonbeams WD – Why you still wearing slip-ons then?
It’s called Italian style, my friend. (thumbsup)
petec – Most people on the Left and Right of politics want broadly the same things out of life, for themselves and others. The bitterness comes in when people convince themselves that those who disagree with their view of the world must be stupid or evil. (thumbsup)
TET
How are you mi amigo ?
At the start of the season all i wanted was to be Champions.
The reality is now upon us.
And whenever it happens we shall party.
Nice one knoxy.
Anyone else? I know I said it would be worth me posting if only 1 Bhoy or Ghirl signed up. But…
Maybe 2 would be goooood also.
Cost you nothing but time.
http://www.anthonynolan.org/register
MWD
MWD
knoxy
I love how you come on here and ask people to join and put money to charaties when your son Oscar is going through this…
I really do hold you up as the greatest man on CQN… god bless you..
even though I know you are not religous..
you are my hero mate…god bless
I think about Oscar daily….
been a while
Philvis
Are you serious ?
You post one load of complete US BS.
No offence.
Everything’s Ruined
I am going to dance on their grave.
This week I have been emailed or had posted on my FB page all manner of snidey comments about the game on Sunday, or the league cup, and NLs treatment by the SFA – I make an effort not to inflict my football on my FB friends, some of whom are small-h huns, some of whom don’t care…but do I get that tolerance in return?Nah it’;s only banter.
Revenge, sweet, cold.
Philvis
No! No! No!
That’ll be them unfashionable Italians then.
MWD