Mrs Barista wrote:Nope, can't believe that's true. Are you suggesting the consequences of breach of contract, expensive and deliberate damage to a council asset, eviction of community tenants are:
1) Making good the arena damage
2) Waving through planning consent of a new pitch
3) Funding 1) and 2) above, which then yields one of the subtenants, a private limited entity, hundreds of thousands in incremental FA funding?

Simply can't be right. Where are the consequences of the unreasonable actions? Unless the costs are recharged to the SMC who then pass on in part to FC. In which case the consequences are fairly obvious.

Obadiah wrote:Apart from the extent of the funding for 1 and 2, if any, and the bill landing on FC's doormat, then yes, that is what I'm suggesting. Whether it is right in the moral sense is another matter.

I understand that the rent for FC is fixed and dependent upon its attendances.

frepneyboy wrote:Care to give us the detail of what rent City pay the SMC?

Obadiah wrote:To the year ending 30 June 2014 £4.3 million. Although that may include income other then renting the KC.

frepneyboy wrote:how is it determined what City pay?

Mrs Barista wrote:@angus_young61: £300,000 donation Labour by Assem Allam last month, according to new @ElectoralCommUK figures.

Interesting context to the sudden change in visible council appetite for action?

WormInHand wrote:Had a feeling something like the had happened. Local Labour councillors under orders from central office.

It stinks. Allam is about as far as you can get form being a Labour supporter - his donations have completely unassociated ulterior motives, imo. Shame on the Labour party for entertaining him, he represents everything they traditionally stand against.