Ironic lectern caption for a woman who has just been handed a new stadium for free
2013 was a very good year – for Karren Brady.
In March the business she runs, West Ham United FC, was handed prime tenancy of a £600 million public asset in exchange for a peppercorn rent and some vague promises about community engagement.
At the same time, Newham council confirmed that it will contribute £40 million to the cost of converting the stadium for the Hammers’ use – ensuring that Ms Brady and her multi-millionaire employers will bear the merest fraction of the expense of relocating their business to swanky new premises.
In September she received a standing ovation at the Tory party conference when she made a speech introducing chancellor George Osborne,
And to top it all off in December she was awarded a CBE for her “for services to entrepreneurship and women in business.”
Usually, people who rely on public money to get by are branded ‘scroungers’ by the Tories; but when it’s handed out to business people they get standing ovations and medals for ‘entrepreneurship’.
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OS. Many a slip twixt cup and lip!