As Sunderland FC were crushing the Magpies yesterday afternoon it occurred to me - Why is the Government propping up that nearly bankrupt football club ?
Northern Rock was the first bank that the Government decided to bail out, with a full scale 'nationalisation' package. However, is it really appropriate for the Northern Rock brand to be sponsoring Newcastle United FC, particularly sociopaths like Joey Barton ?
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Because the law says they must. It's usual for these shirt sponsor soccer deals to be two or three years long. If Northern Wreck wanted to pull out Newcastle United would sue for the cash and win.
Surely a Councillor should know this?
Get over yourself. Its a light-hearted dig. I am a lifelong Sunderland supporter.
Ahahahahaha!
I quite agree ;-D
I once thought of starting a blog, but after the last few postings I'm glad I didn't. Why host a forum in which you are attacked in personal terms? GL is apparently arrogant and egocentric because he likes being written about; and ignorant because he affects not to know the law over sponsorship; and lazy and frivolous because he wastes his time cracking jokes here rather than getting on with the job of representing his electors. To start with, every politician in history has liked being written about in the press; it shows they've made an impression. And yes, most councillors have fully functioning egos; they wouldn't have stood for election if they hadn't. Geoff has never struck me as a shrinking violet, but then if you don't develop the hide of a rhino, you throw silly hissy-fits, as Cllr Peacey-Willcox is currently doing after a harmless dig from Roger Mazillius. Is this what the Standards Board exists to do???
As one who knows Geoff a little, I can dismiss the idea that he wastes his time on trivia and doesn't get on with his job. You don't have to agree with him to know that this just isn't true. Most, though not all, councillors work extremely hard, and Geoff is one of those who does.
But on his own blog, he's entitled to indulge himself a bit now and then, surely to God.
Just a pity that he follows a football club, really. That's where his judgement worries me....
He, he, he, ha, ha, ha. Politics is such a jolly game.
Anyone who likes football must be a little strange; now wrestling and darts are a different matter altogether.
A bloke's got to have his hobbies, leave him alone and take notice of what Robert Jones has to say. What a lot of common-sense that man writes. Are you really that reasonable in real life Mr Jones, or only in blogland?
It's not the fact of a football club, but that club...must be a tribal thing?
As for sociopaths, that sounds a bit judgemental and not quite as humerous as the Northern Rock jibe. Surely if someone does the crime and does the time, they've discharged their debt? I thought a good trade unionist would see that otherwise people who are dismissed would never get re-employed if their past mistakes were constantly held against them. But then I might be missing the joke...?
I think Robert's observations are very sound and I don't quite understand why every comment on this blog is followed by a rake of accusations about 'Gorden this' or 'Peter M that'. Surely on the Island there are some local issues that can be debated? If there are criticisms of how Geoff does his job as a councillor, then let's hear them. The fact that he gets on your wick and winds you all up seems to me to be the point of the blog - as a means of articulation, publicity and provocation. Long may it continue!
It's about time the muck rakers got to work, there's local elections coming up and we have to know who's the least worst to vote for.
Only joking, what's sauce for the goose......
Anon at 12:08pm, I am of course reasonableness itself. To be dully serious, though, I've been a member of the Labour Party, ducked out for a while to join the LibDems, came back, and I know a good many Tories and those with no political views at all, and I've never yet found a man or woman the devil's work just because their point of view isn't mine. I don't agree with what Geoff said about Liberals a while ago, for instance, (basically that they only lied when their lips moved, as I recall). I've known some real horrors in all parties, and have close friends in all of them, too. I think it's what happens when you get older .... suddenly, you realize that we're all trying to get by as best we can, some have higher standards than others, but that the theory of the Untermensch is best left to rot with Hitler. Finally, I've never known what's wrong with disagreeing with people on policies; it doesn't, as someone said, make you a bad person......!
Now Geoff will remind me that I was less than lovable 20 years ago, when I led the expulsion of Militant from the LP... I'm a believer in the theory that you do what you have to do in life, and put up with the consequences without bitterness or self-justification; but I can still be a little horror on occasion.
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