Comments on: Sir Richard’s Congestion Charge Humbug http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2008/01/23/sir-richards-congestion-charge-humbug/ Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:57:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Iain http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2008/01/23/sir-richards-congestion-charge-humbug/#comment-863 Iain Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:15:36 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2008/01/23/sir-richards-congestion-charge-humbug/#comment-863 My point is Chris that Richard's only problem with Peel's intervention is that they don't agree with him. I don't think anyone involved in the debate is unaware of the interests that companies like Peel Holdings (and Ask, for that matter) hold and those interests do not and should not proclude them from entering into the debate. I'm not aware of any past Peel donations to any political party, but they have of course worked very closely with Salford City Council on a number of major projects (including most recently the Media:City development) - one could hardly consider them political partisans. There does seem - looking as an outsider - to be a good deal of friction between the MCC leadership and Peel (not sure how that started) but that is hardly grounds for accusing them of being closet Tories! My point is Chris that Richard’s only problem with Peel’s intervention is that they don’t agree with him. I don’t think anyone involved in the debate is unaware of the interests that companies like Peel Holdings (and Ask, for that matter) hold and those interests do not and should not proclude them from entering into the debate.

I’m not aware of any past Peel donations to any political party, but they have of course worked very closely with Salford City Council on a number of major projects (including most recently the Media:City development) - one could hardly consider them political partisans. There does seem - looking as an outsider - to be a good deal of friction between the MCC leadership and Peel (not sure how that started) but that is hardly grounds for accusing them of being closet Tories!

]]> By: Chris Paul http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2008/01/23/sir-richards-congestion-charge-humbug/#comment-861 Chris Paul Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:18:34 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2008/01/23/sir-richards-congestion-charge-humbug/#comment-861 Being a donor as Ask is of course overt political activity and it gets recorded at the Electoral Commission etc. Whittaker has gone bonkers over the possibility of congestion charging for a rush hour either end of the day, easily avoided by shoppers and workers alike at his various humungous car parks across the region. Don't know whether Whittaker or Peel have appeared on EC registers? They have a rep for being a donor to your party. But I've no idea whether that is on the up and up. But they are clearly in a grey area backing the position of one party only with hundreds of posters and dozens of bill boards and lots of press and PR and so on ... and not declaring their support. Whittaker has his mum's car enshrined in the Trafford Centre. His plaints about selling off the airport - he being a willing buyer and the owner of Barton - are clearly self interested in the extreme. Being a donor as Ask is of course overt political activity and it gets recorded at the Electoral Commission etc. Whittaker has gone bonkers over the possibility of congestion charging for a rush hour either end of the day, easily avoided by shoppers and workers alike at his various humungous car parks across the region.

Don’t know whether Whittaker or Peel have appeared on EC registers? They have a rep for being a donor to your party. But I’ve no idea whether that is on the up and up. But they are clearly in a grey area backing the position of one party only with hundreds of posters and dozens of bill boards and lots of press and PR and so on … and not declaring their support.

Whittaker has his mum’s car enshrined in the Trafford Centre. His plaints about selling off the airport - he being a willing buyer and the owner of Barton - are clearly self interested in the extreme.

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