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Andy Burnham’s dirty political secret | The News Agents

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How much does it cost to top the Premier League? A secret £830 million, it seems. Manchester City, and its billionaire Abu Dhabi owners, have been found guilty of a scheme to hide millions pumped into the club, breaking UK spending rules – and possibly a few laws too. It's a problem that kicked off in the beautiful game, but is landing now in politics.

In Burnham's celebrated first speech at the Labour Party conference as leader he spoke against big corporations trampling on the average person. So will he stand with his city's big investors, or with those who feel wronged by Man City's financial actions? And how much is his legacy as Greater Manchester Mayor now tarnished by accusations of dirty money?

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20 Comments

@pheeqzie 1 day ago

These guys forget they are sponsored by a bank that was fined for laundering money for drug cartels 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣

@houseofblacklanterns859 1 day ago

Guys, we have finally got the 'build them up to knock them down' cycle down to less than 24 hours.

@PaulStargasm 1 day ago

Not defending foreign money in Manchester and not trying to be whataboutism but we all know this has been happening in London for decades, Russian money even, so why would we be surprised that foreign money has been invested in Manchester?

@samg7325 13 hours ago

"Brought to you by HSBC. Opening up a world of drug cartel money laundering."

@MJTaylor2000 1 day ago

Here we go. Hack podcasts looking to start bringing down another prime Minister because you need the content, the clicks and the sponsorship money. This isn’t holding power to account it’s playing into the hands of our adversaries by contributing to the instability

@benjames10 21 hours ago

You can tell how interested Lewis is whilst playing with his watch 😂

@stevenbayliss7864 1 day ago

The Salford-born chairman of the company I work for has invested millions in building in Manchester so it’s not all foreign money.

@JBAIMARK3 1 day ago

Might as well blame him for the weather, I'd sooner ask who paid who for this headline?

I really don't think anyone expects him to do anything, it's really on the organization itself to sort this out, and not for him to meddle-in like a senile Trumpian.

At the end of the day it's not like the fascists (like Nigel) are going to lift a finger to tackle corruption in sport, this just seems pretty desperate move from fascists and "journalists" to generate controversy surrounding Andy-B, unless Andy-B took a fat bribe where's the real connection?

@EricWilliams-sr8ox 1 day ago

We remember 14 years of Tory’s❤

@davidshaw123451001 1 day ago (edited)

Only a political programme could turn the Man City fraud into an attack on burnham.

@warrenhicks5501 1 day ago

Really, titled for sensationalism. Come on, I expected better of you John and Lewis particularly the day after Andys speech.

@Sam-md9fy 22 hours ago

Really? The day after you lauded his speech as one of the greatest in a generation? Thought better of this programme

@rimtiggins6078 1 day ago

GB News want their headline back

@californiadreamin8423 23 hours ago

Here we go …..

@vjo38 8 hours ago

We've allowed US and Russian money to wash through the UK for years .

@nicksmith1415 5 hours ago

"billionaires don't have bottomless pockets" there fqn there 🤣

@Diane53M 12 hours ago

Corruption and to much money in football has been going on for years. Just look at world cup. Why should someone who can score a goal or save a goal be worth more as a sportsman than a cyclist, or long distance runner. It is now so expensive to go to a match on a regular basis for a club fan is ridiculous. And as for the thousands for the world cup was ridiculous.