the gangsters win because the state is corrupt ....

[scottycelt]

How marvellous - is it steaming hot there? A lunch-time red mullet from the barbecue and a tomato & black olive salad, good bread, the odd glass here & then?

Hmmm ... who the heck do you think he is, amsey, a Trades Union leader or member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet? ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

AUNT was at it too .... paying way over the odds ...

and the SFU is looking up their pay packets too ....

er correction the plod are looking up their pay packets, that's all right then Yates of The Yard is on the case ...

[eighthobstruction]

Lyons was very definitely a WET....drawing a very nice salary too....

[eighthobstruction]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ael-Lyons.html....2009

BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons claims £60,000 in travel and ...

28 Jan 2010 - Sir Michael Lyons receives a salary of £142,800 for a “three to four” day week as chairman of the BBC Trust. But he also received £63,286 expenses....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7085198/BBC-Trust-chairman-Sir-Michael-Lyons-claims-60000-in-travel-and-accommodation-expenses-for-living-outside-London.html

[ahinton]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ael-Lyons.html....2009

BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons claims £60,000 in travel and ...

28 Jan 2010 - Sir Michael Lyons receives a salary of £142,800 for a “three to four” day week as chairman of the BBC Trust. But he also received £63,286 expenses....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...de-London.html

Sir Michael Lyons - Sir Jack Lyons; for some unaccountable reason, the expression "the Lyons share" springs unbidden to mind...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sir Michael Lyons - Sir Jack Lyons; for some unaccountable reason, the expression "the Lyons share" springs unbidden to mind...

or maybe for those of us over a certain age, the Lyons Cornered House...