Is Heseltine corrupt or just stupid?
Yes, this is sour grapes.
Yes, I am bloody angry that the people of Skelmersdale have been crapped on yet again by the Tories’ refusal to fund the development of a town centre now forty years overdue.
Yes, I think the whole design of the Regional Growth Fund is shite.
And yes, I think it’s pretty fucking astonishing that the Western Morning News has just been awarded millions from the fund for some kind of grantmaking assignment about which there are absolutely no details, all because the Chair of the Regional Growth Fund panel, Michael Heseltine, personally asked the editor of the said paper to submit a bid.
It may not be technically corrupt, but for the Chair of the Funding Panel to ask for a bid, and for that bid then to be one of the 1 in 10 bids chosen for the cash, is pretty damn suspicious.
Expect rash of stories like “Government sponsors local …”. Clever, if he gets away with it.
“Corrupt” and “stupid” are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and you seem to have overlooked the “brazen” and “certain to get away with it anyway” options…
For a minute there, I thought it was Carl posting, so I was going to remind him to use whatdotheyknow.com to do the FOI request.
You’re just picking on me Naadir