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As far as I know there was no reason, it was just the way it was decided between Wasps, CCC and Higgs. There was zero chance Wasps purchased the council share not knowing if they would be able to purchase the Higgs share. Equally there was zero chance Higgs would accept our bid for their 50%.

You're not seriously suggesting that May and her cronies are going to run the next general election campaign on a remain platform?

Is the judge going to question anything at any point or just allow the lawyers to come out with rubbish like this. Unless someone can explain otherwise there is no reason CCC couldn't have sold the lease extension to ACL while it was under CCC & Higgs ownership. That would have a) made it...

3 years and no silly haircut? Doesn’t seem to fit in with our strategy.

Who do we owe apart from our owners and related companies?

Irrespective of that it can't be claimed Wasps paid a low price as the stadium was stood empty when at the time it was sold we had already come back.

We were repeatedly assured by the council it was doing just fine when we weren't there. And at the point at which ACL was sold to Wasps we were playing there. If you recall the council made a big deal about repairing the relationship and building trust so we could potentially achieve stadium...

That's not how it would go. If Labour ran a campaign that included a manifesto pledge to either not leave the EU or at least have another referendum and Labour then lost that election it would be held up as proof the result of the original referendum was valid and that was what the electorate...

The whole reason this is still going on and wasn't thrown out last year is because the judge ruled that the decision wasn't sound as it considered the sale of ACL and lease extension as two separate transactions instead of one. Think these judges need to start talking to each other or we'll...

Are you suggesting it would have been impossible for the council to increase the loan to ACL by £1m?

Strutt & Parker did a valuation prior to the sale which Wasps and the council have refused to release. I think its fair to say they wouldn't refuse to release it were it to back up their argument so its a fair assumption that valuation in some way mentions the increase in value with the lease...

Yes and the court order from Lord Justice Irwin granting the appeal said the issue with the initial ruling was that they had been considered as two separate transactions for the purposes of valuation rather than one.

Why would Higgs have put any more money in? It would have been ACL buying the lease extension not Higgs.

There's another issue. If you have Conservative as leave and Labour as main then the next election result would be viewed as a statement on Brexit. Should Labour not win it adds weight to the leave argument that they are carrying out the wishes of the electorate.

If people in America are so concerned about this presumably they are all going to move elsewhere and hand the country back to the native Americans.

Surely that needs a change to the system rather than stopping people coming in. In this day and age the technology exists for this to not be an issue. You say they don't benefit the economy and send all the money back home yet the study commissioned by Trump (and buried when it didn't give him...

All I'm seeing, from all sides including those doing the negotiating, is people making sweeping statements and giving soundbite statements. We're now 276 days from leaving the EU. We're a million miles away from being ready to leave IMO. In fact you'd struggle to find anything you could point...

But if you voted Labour you voted for a party who stated in their manifesto If Corbyn said he was ignoring the result of the referendum and was going to oppose leaving the EU he would be crucified in the media for going against the electorate. Their are Labour voters who voted leave, would they...

He was sat a few rows behind me at a show in London a few years back. Nice bloke. Very approachable and happy to chat to everyone there. Was a decent sized venue so he could have easily gone to some VIP area and not have to deal with everyone coming up to him.

Shouldn't the first thing to be dealt with have been what happened with the mediation that was ordered? Why couldn't it be extended when ACL was owned by Higgs and CCC? Both were agreed at the same council meeting which is why the judge who sent this to full trial said it had to be considered...