One is a poster on a message board giving an opinion. The other is the leader of a large city council talking about the profitability of a company they're a 50% shareholder in.
It's supposition though. Nobody knows what the conditions were but you've decided to use off the cuff remarks from Tim ('the bullshitting liar') Fisher as proof.
One of the strands of the CCC defence was that they loan was less risky due to their continued shareholding in ACL. Of course, that was a load of bollocks.