As news filters through that City Chairman Steve Lansdown may be about to generously give us a large Tescos retail shed in exchange for our greenbelt land at Ashton Vale to build his new football stadium on, it might be worth identifying some of the tossers who will be promoting all the nonsense we’re going to start encountering very soon indeed.
First on the list is a dreadful little twat called Felix, Tescos PR man for the south west who’s been putting himself about in Hanham recently.
No doubt he’ll soon be getting a free rein at the Cancer to explain over and over again how many low-paid McJobs his warehouse and car park combo is going to create and what a fantastic economic benefit the whole charade will be for south Bristol.
Felix’s surname, by the way, is Gummer and rather conveniently his daddy’s company provides “corporate responsibility solutions” to Tesco’s board.
Daddy being John, the former Tory minister.
Hat tip: Private Eye
Extract from Wikipedia entry – In 1993 the Norwegian Minister of Environmental Affairs commented “John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met.”
Like father, like son?
This is the same Felix Gummer who told a Welsh Affairs meeting in Wales “that Tesco does not have a land bank” despite the Office of Fair Trading finding that Tesco held 55% of the 319 land bank sites it had identified.
In 1993 the Norwegian Minister of Environmental Affairs commented “John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met.”
Though this statement related to acid rain, it’s important to remember that the Norwegians had a particular hatred of John Gummer… something to do with arguments about harpooning whales. Disagreements over whales coloured pretty much everything that took place between the two countries at the time, and the strength of this statement probably reflects some of that.
I was at an event where Felix was talking corporate social responsibility and waxed lyrical about their partnership with Fareshare – until a representative of Fareshare pointed out that Tesco had redused to talk to them for a year.