Hansard sets the record straight over the Continuation Lie

At the start of this week there weren’t many folk outside of Chesterfield that knew of Toby Perkins, the MP for the Spire town.

Scottish football fans of a certain age will remember the Anglo Scottish Cup antics of the local football club, sending John Greig’s sorry mob to a 4-1 aggregate defeat in 1981.

Alas both of those clubs are no longer with us, both went into liquidation in the last dozen years but you’ll be hard pressed to find recognition of that in the Scottish media.

Back in June 2012 it was front page news when the creditors, including Her Majesty and Dave King rejected a CVA put together by Charles Green.

Soon afterwards a very strange storyline emerged, completely contrary to all logic. Apparently it wasn’t full blown liquidation, seemingly liquidation only applied to the holding company or the engine room subsidiary as The Herald imaginatively put it.

All lies. Which the football authorities and mainstream media have clung onto as their dwindling credibility plunged even further.

Fortunately in the House of Commons on Tuesday there was a surprise outburst of truth and honesty.

Recording the intervention of Perkins, Hansard, the official record of the House of Commons reported:

Surely football club owners should be able to spend the money they have to take such a risk. However, if they are spending money from the future, as Derby County and Glasgow Rangers did, and the risk fails in the current year, they will inevitably go bust. Glasgow Rangers disappeared altogether, and Derby County almost disappeared. Football fans do not want clubs to take that risk, and surely the regulator should be preventing that.

Not one Scottish mainstream outlet chose to report on the comments of Perkins, he clearly knows his stuff with HMRC still waiting on final settlement from liquidators, BDO.

As well as 276 trade creditors 6,000 loyal bears were left clutching worthless Debentures with their £7.7m long gone.