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Online kippaxvilla2

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Herbert Ellis
« on: January 03, 2017, 03:05:17 PM »
Is 93 today.  Is it me or does he seem to have been 93 since he sold up?!


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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2017, 03:07:11 PM »
Fix

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2017, 03:57:38 PM »
Strangely no one seems to have predicted him shuffling off on the Zsa Zsa Gabor thread. Is he going to live forever?

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2017, 03:58:47 PM »
The old curmudgeon allows me a smile when I see him now. His time has come and gone and for all the damage he's done he was probably the last of the old style owners. Happy birthday doug.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2017, 04:03:15 PM »
Is 93 today.  Is it me or does he seem to have been 93 since he sold up?!
No he was 99 then.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2017, 08:34:43 PM »
200 pages

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2017, 08:41:29 PM »
Fix

Nope you told me yourself it doesn't exist.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2017, 08:46:26 PM »
Strangely no one seems to have predicted him shuffling off on the Zsa Zsa Gabor thread. Is he going to live forever?

I did!

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2017, 09:01:51 PM »
Ninety-three? Wow!

Happy birthday, Doug.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2017, 09:58:55 PM »
Ninety-three? Wow!

Happy birthday, Doug.
Happy Birthday to the inventor of the bycycle kick.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2017, 01:25:51 PM »
BFR said in his book one of Lerners achievements was to make Doug look good. Happy Birthday Sir Doug

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2017, 06:38:10 PM »
From the Guardian

Conservatives raise £1.6m in second week of election campaign
Labour and Lib Dems raised £383,000 and £160,000 respectively in week leading up to 16 May, Electoral Commission data shows Donors to Theresa May’s party include Doug Ellis, the former chairman of Aston Villa football club.
 
Rajeev Syal and Holly Watt
Thursday 25 May 2017 15.12 BST Last modified on Thursday 25 May 2017 16.23 BST

The Conservatives have raised more than £1.6m during the second week of the general election campaign, more than doubling the combined donations to all the other political parties over the same period, figures show.

Donors to Theresa May’s party include a firm controlled by the founders of Betfred, the bookmakers, and Doug Ellis, the former chairman of Aston Villa football club.

Details are contained within the latest release of Electoral Commission data unveiling the major donors to each political party in the week leading up to 16 May.


They show that Labour raised just under £383,000 while the Liberal Democrats brought in £160,000.

Ukip’s donations have slowed down, with the party being given just £35,000. The Women’s Equality party and the Green party raised less than £19,000 each.

Figures released on Tuesday showed the Tories received £5.46m from January to March this year, more than twice the £2.65m given to Labour.

The new data shows that the firm Rainy City Investments has given £100,000 to the Tories. The firm’s directors are Peter and Fred Done, the owners of Betfred, which has more than 1,300 betting shops across the UK.

The brothers, who are from Salford, bought the Tote in 2011 in a bid backed by the former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

Ellis, under his full name of Sir Herbert D Ellis, has donated £66,666 to the Tories this month. He received a knighthood under David Cameron’s government.

The Tories’ two biggest donations, each worth £150,000, came from Investors In Private Capital Ltd, and Andrew C Green, an investment adviser to equity funds.

Billionaires Simon and David Reuben are directors of Investors In Private Capital. The brothers made their fortune in Russian aluminium in the 1990s but have since established themselves as London-based property investors.

Michael Lewis, a fund manager and the former a former vice-president of the pro-Israel lobbying group Bicom, has given £100,000 to the Conservative campaign.

The Tories also received £100,000 from Lord John Sainsbury, the president of the supermarket chain, and £125,000 from Steven Parkin, a Leeds-based businessman.

Lubov Chernukhin, a banker who is a UK citizen, has given £12,500 to the Tories. Chernukhin’s husband, Vladimir, was Russia’s former deputy foreign minister during Vladimir Putin’s first term as Russian president. She has previously handed over more than £300,000 to the party or the offices of its MPs, records show.

Labour’s large donations over this period came almost exclusively from unions. Its most generous donation of £290,125 came from the moderate GMB union.

The Liberal Democrats received their biggest donation of the campaign so far of £100,000 from Mark Petterson, the director of a large wind farm.

Last week, it emerged that the Conservatives had raised £1.5m more than Labour in the first week of the general election campaign, receiving more than £4.1m while Labour raised just over £2.7m.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2017, 07:00:51 PM »
As if there isn't enough reason to dislike Ellis already? Does anyone know the amount he has donated to this pathetic amoral dangerous party?

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2017, 07:09:14 PM »
As if there isn't enough reason to dislike Ellis already? Does anyone know the amount he has donated to this pathetic amoral dangerous party?

£66,666 is a weirdly specific number but is also much more sensible if you view it as 1/3 of £200k or 2/3 of 100k (or many other scales) so I'd suggest it's part of a series of donations.  Without going through all the records it's hard to say just how much it would be.

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Re: Herbert Ellis
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2017, 08:51:46 PM »
Diabolical Doug.

It all makes sense now.
 

 


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