4 May (Part 1) - Like father, like son?
I suppose the more cautious of us vote Conservative in the hope of electing financial probity but it is not guaranteed. When I first started to keep an eye on Bexley Council its Cabinet Member for Finance seemed to me to be something of a rogue when it came to Financial matters.
His
son in particular got into all sorts of financial scrapes, among them a
holiday home in Tenerife which attracted adverse comment on Trip Adviser.
Deposits of up to £1,350 were alleged to have disappeared and there were
references to “your crooked dad”, Bexley’s Cabinet Member.
Then there was
the mysterious case of the pub in Bean which the landlady alleged had been
stolen from her by trickery. Once again the two Campbells were named in the
papers. And in the same year
the Bexley Cab office
which was opened up without planning permission. Campbell again.
All of these stories linked financial, allegedly irregular, manoeuvres to the Campbells.
Seven years ago I had a protracted correspondence with the Falkirk Football
Supporters Club who were very worried that a Mark Campbell claiming to be an American financier was
trying to buy their club
and thought it might be the same Mark Campbell who had operated in Bexley.
Yesterday a reader [Thank you] sent me
a link to a Government website which said that a Mark Colin
Campbell had been declared bankrupt a week ago. Same name, same age and the
address is almost the same as 15 years ago.
Let’s hope that not too many people were badly hurt this time around.
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