I’m not clear why this is being brought up again now - the story is over two years old. I’m presuming It’s floated to the surface again due to talk of an F1 takeover and this is one of Bernie’s greatest hits whilst being in charge?
That said, I don’t mind being reminded about how awful the man is. And how he began the long list of disappointments with Tony Blair’s “New” Labour government by accepting £10 million quid from him to exempt F1 from tobacco sponsorship laws back in '97.
yea, we’re going to need a bigger bribe.
Yeah, nobody noticed the 2014 dateline on the article. The only recent news is that the deal has been closed, that John Malone and his Liberty Media bought F1 for four billion (as in thousand million).
Eccleston is the one that looks like andy warhol.
This is an old story from 2014, not sure why it’s making the rounds now. According to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, generally a reliable news source–the very same which was entrusted with the Panama Papers–the story is more complex
In a nut shell the case against Eccleston was not rock solid, and difficult to prove, not unusual in bribery cases against well resourced, powerful individuals and or corporate entities. e.g. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) hasn’t been able to successfully prosecute a single bribery case in years and is generally is known as the Serious Farce Office–not without reason.
In legal terms what happened here was a dismissal of the case, because of lack of evidence BUT Eccelston can’t go around claiming he was being unjustly persecuted etc…The state got 100 Mill out of it – in the UK such things happen for free – so in some way I do feel that the Munich court represented the people’s interest slightly more successfully than in some other jurisdictions.
So like the average Tom, Dick and Harry?
I would describe it as New “Labour”, based on how long it took for them to start attacking disabled people.
Change your name to New
Forget the fucking Labour
Manic Street Preachers - Socialist Serenade
But I agree with everything else you said and I’m going off topic.
Ecclestone’s mother-in-law was recently kidnapped. A $36.5m (£28m) ransom was demanded but apparently she was freed without payment.
Not making any particular point here, just FYI.
In fairness, it’s pretty difficult to thoroughly vet all of one’s helicopter pilots. I have a hard time just remembering all their names.
I think Eccleston is this guy?
Who?
I don’t know.
Third base!
Christopher Eccleston… the 9th Doctor (the first on the new series). Also, he was in Shallow Grave, GI Joe as Destro, 28 Days Later, Heroes, and loads of other things on British TV… It’s kind of funny that he has almost the same last name as the guy in this story (who has an E at the end) and you had Eccleston without the E!
I was just trying to be clever!
No, this guy, the commander at the manor house they main characters stumble into - the infected soldier killed west, no Jim:
Yeah eyeless.
I’m pretty sure it was another soldier who Jim gauged out his eyes, but it’s been a while (and that clip is kind of hard to see, anyway), so I could be wrong.
But Eccleston was in the film (and not Ecclestone, who paid to get out of a bribery trial).
Yeah think you’re right didn’t they just let him get eaten by “will never invent farming”.
By the way I bulked out the who comment with a tag that said doctor.
What I’ve learned from this story is that while Bernie Ecclestone is clearly a rich prick, he has to live with that face in every reflective surface he passes from now until the day his inner organs stop pretending to care and just kill him already.
Therefore, there really is justice in this world.
Hopefully coming soon: Rupert Murdoch’s heart explodes, killing every fawning UKIP toady for 50m in a desperate attempt to prove that YES he actually did have a physical heart.
Wow!
Shame on you Germany!
