Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told #Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair (Chris Musgrove & Martin Corney) had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site (now Teesworks)
@RBrooks45 reports in this week’s @PrivateEyeNews that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by Messrs Musgrave & Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account)
I’am sure we will all be told it will take time for the thousands of well paid jobs to eradicate the rising child poverty in the Tees Valley Valley.
All the while 4 business men are raking in hundreds of millions on the back of his give aways to them.
#cronyism#EasyMoney
@AndyMcDonaldMP@PrivateEyeNews While in opposition Labour said they would instruct an NAO investigation if they won the general election over a year later nothing 🤷♂️
@SCThorley@rbrooks45@PrivateEyeNews Simon I think that was the intention from the outset , there is no way the new home builders will want to pay for an expensive road with a rail & river crossing so I think Skerningham garden village will never get finished unless taxpayers money is crowbarred in for the road.
@JKash000@ZelenskyyUa If I had to choose I would opt for Zelensky to be the leader of my homeland over Trump any day of the week, his a legend & much more respected by millions more poeple around the world…while many millions of MAGA's voters bubbles have been bursting most of this year
@SCThorley@rbrooks45@PrivateEyeNews They have not finished yet they are currently looking to try to crowbar more taxpayers money into their Skerningham garden village road.
Funny how 2 garden villages were pledged before he was elected as TVM & we have Wynyard & Skerningham , just saying.
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This person & political party want to govern our country again, after many long years of mismanaging it, leaving it to others to try to sort their mess out.
A good start would be learning how to correctly spell the country they want to govern 🤭🤦♂️
#proofread#spellchecker
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@AndyMcDonaldMP I remember many local politicians include you & a then shadow Chancellor saying, get us in government & we will call the NAO in to investigate.
Well voters are still waiting.
"20 substations ... for £10.91- or 55p per substation."
This time, it's a shift of valuable assets to Steel River Power - but the same old private wealth for a few.
All made possible with public money, which could have created a sovereign wealth fund for the people of Teesside.
After over £500m of taxpayers money spent on Teessides Freeport & Houchen gifted a 90% shareholding of it to his mates the first factory to open workers might be going on strike. So things are going well with his vanity projects then? this & the airport.
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