I'll let his Wikipedia page fill in some of the gaps... Banks was the chief executive (CEO) of Southern Rock Insurance Company in 2014, which underwrites insurance policies for the website GoSkippy.com, which was founded by Banks.He previously co-founded Brightside Group in 2005, and was its CEO from June 2011 to June 2012, at which time the company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). After Banks' departure, Brightside took legal action against him, alleging he used confidential information in setting up GoSkippy.com six months later. There were also legal actions between Southern Rock and Brightside. According to Companies House records, Banks has set up 37 different companies using slight variations of his name. The names used by Banks are Aron Fraser Andrew Banks, Arron Andrew Fraser Banks, Arron Fraser Andrew Banks and Arron Banks. The profiles for the first three names all use the same date of birth but register different lists of companies. When asked by The Guardian about this, he declined to answer questions on the topic. In 2016, the leaked Panama Papers indicated Banks was the shareholder of British Virgin Islands company PRI Holdings Limited, which was the sole shareholder of African Strategic Resources Limited. However, a spokesperson for Banks has denied any links to the lawyer named and denies that Banks was involved with the Papers. In November 2015, Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador, introduced Banks to a Russian businessman. According to The Guardian, Banks was offered a chance to invest in Russian gold firms, potentially netting a profit of several billion dollars. The deal involved funding from a Russian state-owned bank, and was announced 12 days after the Brexit referendum. So, long story short, tax dodging, insider trading, and dodgy deals with Russians.
Jack Renshaw, a member of the far-right National Action group, has pleaded guilty to planning to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper, so I suppose we'll be seeing boneheads bawling "freedom of speech" because buying a machete to murder your local MP with is certainly an example of freedom of speech and not in any way a crime for which anyone can be charged In completely unrelated news, here's the front page of today's Express doing their best Abu Hamza impression by threatening all 650 MPs in Parliament - which doesn't remind me of this MailOnline sociopath from a few months back please log in to view this image
Trump the liar. Trump the adulterer. Trump the bully (to name a few!) and now....Trump the killer? Puerto Rico,part of USA. Asked Trump for help after the island's disaster. He sent very little. Ok. Local government says only 64 died......it now could be something like 20,000. But the governor is unwilling to give out figures. The governor is a Trump fan. The mayor is not. She wanted a lot of help for her people. Was she too loud with her request? Because you musn't shout at the Donald or he will get the hump and turn his back on you.
Did Trump promise to get rid of some of his nuclear missiles,I wonder? Hell,you only need one to wipe out a nation!!!! What about Britain? Don't we have some nasties...….and France,Germany etc? Just imagine if everyone let off their nuclears at the same time.....goodbye universe?
There's a rumour being reported in the American media about Michael Cohen losing his legal team and flipping. He's Trump's lawyer and the RNC deputy finance chair, so his cooperation would be an extremely big deal. It looks like he's totally ****ed on various levels, but I'm suspicious of how this has leaked out. Is he just calling for a pardon now before the **** hits the fan?
As much as I think Owen Jones has an overly-inflated opinion of his own worth, this is certainly worth sharing... The Dire Leader's response is on a par with Bob Hoskins' finest hour
I would think Bob's career chances are better - even against the IRA BTW - Great film - and the music was top!!
Utterly amazing acting - and not a word said. (Talking about Bob Hoskins, for the avoidance of confusion.)
I was listening to an old edition of "Sounds of the 70s" yesterday, from the day after the cup final. It included the news broadcasts and the major topic of the news was the rail timetable ****up, particularly the Govia Thameslink problems. Two excuses were offered by the company (1) that there could be problems throughout the day and (2) this was due to an (unspecified) "operational issue"*. My point is that this was only a few weeks ago and the company has been in the news several times since. But on no occasions did I hear an executive pulled up for the bullshit they spouted on the day. And companies know this. They know they can say virtually anything at the time of the problem because nobody is going to remember, or bother to remember. So I guess there is no journalism anymore.
They do that on the train as well. You get something meaningless like we are running late due to congestion ahead. And why is there congestion? Might as well say sit down and shut up, we'll get there when we get there.
Have you noticed that, in the last couple of years, announcements have referred to the people on their trains not as passengers but as "customers"? That highlights so much of the issue with railways these days because referring to them as "customers" reduces them to little more than somebody who is paying to use their service and nothing more, while being a passenger means that the company are responsible for the person's journey being the best it can possibly be. Or to put it another way, a passenger is a person, a "customer" is an ATM with a pulse.
As New York sues the Dumpf Foundation for violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign which will close the spoof charity - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-attorney-general.html - Mark Kermode is spending more Twitter time on his 'Get Trump' campaign than talking about films Mind you, he should be knighted for coming up with the acronym THFWCFSG which translates to Tiny Handed Ferret Wearing Cheeto Faced **** Gibbon
Funny how this sounds exactly like the questions Arron Banks was doing a very bad job of evading the other day...
Funny. The birthplace of football only got a look in in 1966. 52 years ago. The rest of Britain and Ireland? No chance.
Much like the Russia bid, the number of timezones covered by the bid ticks so many boxes for the TV audiences as it's possible to have matches take place at prime time in Europe, the Americas and Asia, often on the same day - something which the Moroccan bid wouldn't have been able to do. Maybe if The FA thought of a bid that was anything other than "We invented football, GIMME GIMME GIMME" maybe their bid would be taken seriously by anyone other than Sun readers.
