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Yesterday, the fascist bully boys at PR firm Citigate Dewe Rogerson gave three different reasons for not answering a simple question about their client Fastjet (FJET). The real reason is that the answer shows that Fastjet is heading towards insolvency and needs a placing PDQ. More on that later, I have a full answer to come. Citigate tried to distract attention by claiming that I had libelled an employee by not describing her as a genius and, worse, had engaged in a racial slur by hinting she may be Greek. I think that says a lot about how senior staffers at Citigate view the bubbles for my views on and links to Greece are well known...
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wildrides
Cant see how being Greek is a slur since they gave us the Olympics , Great Culture , Science ,Design , etc etc ………… Theres just the little matter of not wanting to be paying much Tax and wanting to retire early ……………….. just like the city of London then (ahem) . Personally I took the remark to be the shape of the face and facial features in the photo . I mean …….Chinese look Chinese , Inuit look Inuit and Thomas looks like a ……………….. ( well you decide)
chris
Thank fuck for that. Thought we had lost you for a minute yesterday. Keep swinging mate, you are needed more now than ever. If you decide to start charging for this then count me in.
Keith
I note that Huntsworth plc, the healthcare communications and public relations group including Citigate, will announce its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2015 on Tuesday 15 March 2016.
It will could be interesting reading, will there be any more goodwill impairments following the £71.5m impairment charges in the 2014 accounts? This included £6.5m impairment against Citigate.
Roll on Tuesday for Huntsworth’s results.
filthy lucre
Now you think you are Lord Byron ffs!
Words almost fail me. If only you were.
Tom Winnifrith
FL
No I read Byron. I do not think that I am him. I also read, for instance, Charlotte Bronte and Ayn Rand I do not think that i am CB or AR.
Suggest you up the medication old boy you are really losing it today. Sadly words never fail you, it is just that you always choose the wring ones to utter so sound like a total imbecile as a result
t
filthy lucre
Tom, you pompous arse. Intellectual, you
are not. Rude bully boy more like.
Tom Winnifrith
Filthy
Welcome back. Just because I read the odd book and went to Oxford, I don’t claim to be an intellectual. I am with Socrates on that matter. You no doubt are smarter than me & also Socrates and so are in no doubt as to your own towering intellect
T
filthy lucre
Tom you smug git.
Now you think you are Socrates.
Unbelievable, if I didn’t know you better.
Tom Winnifrith
Filthy
You peasant. I am not claiming to be Socrates, Byron, Ayn Rand or Charlotte Bronte. In this point I was merely alluding to how Socrates responded when accused of being the cleverest man in Greece ( not that I stand accused of that). I assumed that you would be sufficiently well educated to know the answer he gave and thus to understand my train of thought. With hindsight that was rather silly of me
T