Comments on: The pits

By: sbalb

sbalb — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:24:19 +0000

On Thursday’s PM Programme (6m30 onwards), ex-miner Ken Perry reduced me to angry tears on the way home. His sense of humour in the face of adversity – he lost money to the firm – is worth a dozen, a hundred Beresfords:

“Let’s face it: there’s blokes there, chaps there, they’ve worked all their God-given lives… they’ve come out crippled, injured… died: and they’re stealing money off them. They should be eating more porridge than the three bears.”

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:56:11 +0000

Struck off? Intestines wound out of a winch, please.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:55:05 +0000

If anyone deserves the death penalty, it’s this bastard. This makes me incredibly angry.

And it’s a wonder he managed to live and work in the middle of Doncaster for the last few years. If I had done something anywhere near as deceitful there I’d still be running.

By: Clive

Clive — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:19:25 +0000

Living as I do in Barnsley, I’m aware of what constitutes “snazzy” etc. The Frenchgate redevelopment is a classic example of Doncaster’s halfhearted redeveloping. As is the The Hub by North Bridge; a glorious building in less than salubrious surroundings.

And having met Beresford, the only civil comment I could make is that I counted my ribs only leaving, just to make sure he hadn’t appropriate one.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:07:45 +0000

I note Beresford is on Doncaster Rovers’ board of directors: did he perchance spend some of his pocket money at Transform, the plastic surgery company Rovers’ chairman John Ryan sold a few years ago? I merely speculate because I remember Beresford’s fat little face on his advert in the Doncaster Free Press every week and he looks a lot better now, with a conspicuously refulgent set of shiny white gnashers of the type associated with dishonest, thieving fucks.

By: Dave Hansell

Dave Hansell — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:42:08 +0000

“what chance do mere miners have?”

Steady now Justin, linking what happens to MP’s with what happens to the rest of us will have Bob the Pied Piper foaming at the mouth.

By: Annie Besant

Annie Besant — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:31:22 +0000

Do they get to keep the money they STOLE?

By: Sick miners’ lawyers struck off - Chicken Yoghurt

Sick miners’ lawyers struck off - Chicken Yoghurt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:29:30 +0000

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By: Dunc

Dunc — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:13 +0000

If they’ve been struck off, does that mean that what they did was illegal? If so, have they been prosecuted for it? I am not a lawyer, but I suspect that it's unlikely to be actually illegal. You can sell your professional services at whatever usurious rates you can get away with, and write any old crap you like into the small print. They got struck off for violating the ethical standards of their profession, not for breaking the law. Personally, I'm quite pleased to find out that lawyers have professional ethical standards...

By: sanbikinoraion

sanbikinoraion — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:53:05 +0000

Those offices are far less “snazzy” in broad daylight without the glittering multicolour lights. Plus if you know Doncaster and the rest of the area around there it’s typical Northern half-hearted “regeneration” with a few nice buildings, the lake, but then the godawful fake hills in the background and badly-kept pavements and shrubberies.