That's what is needed. As David Burns B.A. (Hons) has just said (Blimey! I'm agreeing with him!) what the situation needs is Adam to sort out the gap between Gerraghty and Pappa Assem. AP just said the situation is not irretrievable and he cannot believe that £90m of investment in sporting facilities will be allowed to slip away. Seems to me the only way this will go forward is if an intermediary (Adam) comes in and sorts everything out.
Just listening to mr Gerraghty talking about mr Allam cant see anything been sorted out while they are at the same table.
The Hull Fair thing is a cover up for Geraghty looking after the interests of the eggchasers. He's an obnoxious person that left Labour to become a people's Independent on OPE FFS and has risen out of the ashes from the demise of Minns and the LibDems to become a portfolio holder. Saying that Allam Snr is going about this all the wrong way and I'm betting AP knows this and despairs. We don't need an extension to the KC in the forseeeable so why the rush to take ownership of it? Not convinced personally about the need for a so called sporting village either next to the KC - would like to see a 5000 seat arena though to enable Hull to get most music events - this should have been built IMHO instead of the Bonus/Gemtec/Vulcan arena of which Hull has got loads of alternative venues. Accept the budget for the KC wouldn't run to this at the time though. Time to bang heads together - sort it Adam.
I just heard Geraghty on the radio and I hope to God that doesn't go out nationally. I don't know what the right decision is, but the basis of Geraghty's decision seemed to be his own small minded ignorance. His main complaint was protection for "ulleffcee". How pissed off must he have been when the owner of "ulleffcee" saw it as a non-issue? One again, Adam Pearson came across as a breath of fresh air.
Geraghty was a loose cannon in the days of Humberside CC and he's still at it now 15 years later since the demise of the County Council. He's a Hull FC fan - end of and loves confrontation. Brady said he would put it to a referendum (stupid thing to say anyway) and now he's left it to that clown as the Council's mouthpiece in relation to their decision - I believe whilst Brady was out of the country. You couldn't make it up if you tried. At least in the days when the Council decided to invest £43.5m of the KC windfall on the so called superstadium project, old Labour had an academic in Pat Doyle as Leader. Brady and Geraghy are akin to having two foxes let loose in a chicken run. Was hopeful the then new kids on the block, the LibDems, would raise the profile of the city and be a breath of fresh air to the old bully boy tactics of Old Labour - but didn't take account of the fact that Minns became leader and similarly fouled up. Where from here?
@ DMD I've asked on my Geraghty thread that its made into a sticky. Is this possible as I think we all need to be sending our complaints directly to him now?
Craig, I'll make it a sticky for now to try to save you bumping and having too many threads on the same topic. I'm not certain emailing Geraghty's the way forward as he doesn't have the final say, it's down to the committee, of which he's just one member. Stickied the wrong one.
Are the official tigers supporters club, not having a say in Hull daily mail and voicing what us the fans want?
Still mistified by yesterday's decision. At a time when people are facing redundancies and the like any chance to create new job opportunities and have something positive for the community to use and enjoy should have been welcomed with open arms. We're saddled with a council that will continue to hold us back from been a top city in England.
I'm afraid with Labour what that wanchor Lloyd did will be used as an excuse to do nothing for decades. Remember, people, No decsion is better than a wrong decision.................in politics!
i wonder if we, the voters, have any right of voice to Eric Pickles or a higher authority than a jumped up nobody off Orchard Park who continues to support the Hull Trinity view of keeping Hull firmly in the slow lane?
mr grimshaw cant even work out who is who in the allam family and his grasp on the rest of it is just as dodgy. but sod it, let's go for 20% unemployment in the area.
I doubt any authority above our council could or would do anything. But we have a right of voice to our MPs. We elect them to serve our interests and if this development is in our best interests they are duty bound to try to do something about it and get some honest answers. Or am I just living in a world of fantasy? Maybe an avenue worth exploring. http://www.alanjohnson.org/
That's the way it's supposed to work. But can you see a Labour MP taking sides against his Labour controlled Council.
Hope this spells the end of Labour in Hull.. I mean Hull Fair FFS, it isn't the way forward, the city needs jobs being created and this twat Garaghty is stopping progress..
i thought there was some Cameron/Pickles 'Big Society' type initiative to challenge local council knobheads on illogical decisions.
Thought the big society was more about devolving power and allowing privatisation by the back door. Like these schools opened my upper middle class families, so their kids don't have to mix with the riff raff. Anyway going off topic there. Just doubt they could do anything about a council not wanting to sell something they own.
