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| AN AMERICAN CARPETBAGGER UNWELCOME TO ROYAL HOSPITAL |
Thus, ironic that Royal Hospital Ward has had an American, Andrew Rinker, foisted upon them to replace hard working and well liked, Ian Donaldson.
The Dame may have this all wrong(during the Festive Season she tends to over indulge) but it seems that Louisiana born and bred Rinker, though owing a billion pound house in Gloucester Rd, is really based-work wise-in the United States.
So why would Rinker wish to stand for election in the Royal Borough? Seems odd...
Rinker, being stinking rich from oil money, has impressed members of the Association with his show off ways.
So a hard working councillor has been ousted to make way for a socially and politically ambitious American.
As ex Cllr Phelps would say, "you could not make it up"!
The Dame has reproduced his CV only because she wonders whether this Jesuit educated American oil man turned barrister will have time for the little people....from examining his CV she finds it difficult to believe.
NOT ONE OF HIS CURRENT JOBS LISTED BELOW ARE UK BASED!!!!!
Professional Experience
1992 -
present
present
Editor-in-Chief and Member of Board of Advisory Editors
Tulane Law Review
Higher Education
Tulane Law Review
Higher Education
International legal publication
1998 -
Present
Present
Director
Louisiana Land Company, LLC
Oil & Energy
Louisiana Land Company, LLC
Oil & Energy
Natural resources; oil and gas production
Oct 1998
Present
Present
Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor-Advocate, Barrister
Andrew Rinker, Solicitor-Advocate
Law Practice
Andrew Rinker, Solicitor-Advocate
Law Practice
2009 -
Present
General Partner
Present
General Partner
Eunice Canal Company, Ltd.
Farming
Farming
Timber management and farming; natural resources
2010 -Chairman
Present
Present
Pugilistic Corporate Strategies Limited
Insurance
Insurance
Insurance underwriting and investment
2010 -
Present
Present
Non-Executive Director
Randle Brooks Limited
Real Estate
Randle Brooks Limited
Real Estate
Property management and development
2011 -
Present
Present
Non-Executive Director
Monckton Properties Limited
Real Estate
Monckton Properties Limited
Real Estate
Property management and development
His fortune may be enormous and so is his head. What a typical American show off.
ReplyDeleteI looked him up and he lists everything except where he went to kindergarten. What a pity we have to import Yanks. If I went to Louisiana and tried to stand in an election I would be told to 'take a hike'.
Long serving Cllr Donaldson is gobsmacked and very hurt. Losing a living is one thing. Losing it to a windbag is quite another
DeleteHe needs to confirm that he is a British citizen in order to stand for election here.
ReplyDeleteThis is the strangest cv for a Town Councillor that I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteThe Dame must do some more digging. A background like this ending up in Hornton Street almost certainly means that there is a "minority" group lurking somewhere. Masons are not now very active in Louisiana but it is a clue to the mystery......
DeleteRinker, Moylan, Donaldson, Dalton. All members of the BOW group
DeleteLoyal service counts for very little these days with K&C Tories. Self styled celebrities and one time bankers is where the action is.
ReplyDeleteSelf interest rears its ugly head. No doubt disgraced ex Leader Cllr Cockerel will have his hand out for a non Executive post with the Tulane Law Revue. £60k a year plus four First Class return flights to America (plus expenses). Alas, the Bentley will not be available to ferry the scoundrel to Heathrow
DeleteLord help us. With this boastful odd ball and with 'phone call' Palmer in Queensgate UKIP have been awarded a real gift.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to his self promoting entry. He should understand such common and vulgar showing off about one's fortune and influence may go down well in New Orleans, but it tends to mark you out as w****r here. He is also is very proud of his membership of those odd frat societies our American cousins so love. Like the Bullingdon,,,very Middle Class trying to be aristo.
ReplyDeletehttp://chamber.com/andrew-rinker
No substance to this person. All froth. Built on huge ego. Time for the balloon to be pricked
DeleteCant figure out how old this person is. Sounds very young. Does the Dame have a photo?
DeleteThe Dame has put up his picture.....and she doesn't like the cut of his jib
DeleteShifty looking piece of work. Not nasty (like Phelps). But definitely shifty. Very shifty. And not to be trusted. Will shaft friends, family and colleagues at the drop of a hat. Should be packed off back to the colony.
DeleteMust be a friend of Cllr. Jonathon Read.
ReplyDeleteI'll have you know that Cllr. Jonathon Read's ongoing contributions to the well being of the local community in Earls Court are highly valued. He is a kind and generous sympathetic soul that loves the diverse community in which he lives.
DeleteAnd if you believe that you'll believe that this Yank is a suitable candidate to be a local Ward Councillor. Another *anker who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Yes of course, all true, but he lives in 'diverse' Holland Park.
DeleteRinker was the name of Norman Scott's dog. The dog that Jeremy Thorpe shot by accident when he took aim at Norman. Unfortunately Thorpe is too old and feeble to train his barrel on this new mischief maker. We do not need or want this type of person in the Royal Borough
ReplyDeleteThorpe did not shoot Rinker. It was his friend, the pilot Newton. More misinformation on the Honet.
ReplyDeleteMatthew what is the Honet
DeleteThe "Honet" is the stuff of Mathew's nightmares. He should stay off the cheese!
DeleteThe dog was Rinka not Rinker.
DeletePoor old Matthew, always gets it wrong. Didn't he promise to get the kids into Holland Park School? Didn't he get the name of the supermarket wrong? Now he has even got the dog story wrong. The hit man shot the dog!!! That's what hit men do so watch out Matthew or phone a friend in Australia.
DeleteAnyone feeling even remotely inclined to feel sorry for Mathew should get to know him a little bit better.
DeleteNote: this is a not a recommendation, any permanent psychological damage that may result, including a unquenchable desire to think up novel uses for a mallet, are your own responsibility.
Mallet? You can be much more innovative with a cactus ...
DeleteDoes it make a figs worth of difference who shot the dog? Thorpe was directing operations.
DeleteThis is not the Freemasons. Look instead to the British-American Project for the Successor Generation, founded and funded by the CIA to perpetuate the close relationship between Britain and the USA. This recruits Americans and Britons with political talent and connections when they are young, indoctrinating them with propaganda about the virtues of American capitalism and America's role in the world, encouraging them to steer British politics in a pro-Washington direction. In effect, a Trojan horse for US foreign policy. Local distinguished members, or “fellows” as they are called, include Sir Merrick Cockell, Daniel Moylan and Warwick Lightfoot. We can only assume that this man is also amongst them, along with Jonathon Read.
ReplyDeleteYou are 95% correct, but the Cockell, Moylan and Lightfoot are distinguished only by their mediocrity
DeleteBritish-American Project? That sounds more than a teeny tiny bit bonkers. Can I suggest not believing everything you read on the Internet?
DeleteHow do you know that I too am not a "fellow"? I can assure you, I have extensive experience of this "junior Bilderberg" group.
DeletePine...the BAP is exactly 13:03 tells it. It isa US funded lobbying op for the propagation of US interests. And it certainly CIA supported
Deletehttp://www.britishamericanproject.org/
It was reported that the CIA recruited Tony Blair when he was a student. A good move for the US (cf Iraq War). Blair got a huge payback after he retired with all the US delivered consultancies that he has been doing. He really wanted to be EEC President but the Europeans (sensibly) will not touch him. Anyway, the US has pushed £ millions his way and he and his family are now fixed for the next three or four generations.
DeleteI was targetted for recruitment by the British American Project. I thought it stank, and didn't get involved, discovering much later the CIA links.
DeleteIs there anything useful that the CIA could find for Pooter to do? The man desperately needs a bung.
DeleteHe could work with Inspector Palmer as a couple of buffoon spies?
DeleteThank you 19:26. Clearly not the conspiracy theory I took it for.
DeletePalmer's spying skills are legendary and have been covered on the Hornet before.
DeleteIf information is your goal then Palmer is worth a thousandth of his weight in root vegetables, horse manure or, more aptly, bovine excrement. If you're happy with second rate fiction however ... no real change.
Cllr Read and prospective Cllr Rinka are not the sort of people that we need in public life in the Royal Borough. And they are certainly not the sort of trash that Tories should be recruiting
ReplyDeleteKnickers well and truly in a twist
DeleteIs Cllr Paget-Brown a social climber and seeker of monied company, like his predecessor? I hope not. Egg head went to a good school (Stowe) and even though he has no money there is no obvious evidence that he he tilts his hat at those seeking to flatter and encourage with baubles. It is a complete mystery where this prat Rinker has emerged from and is being foisted on the Royal Hospital Ward. Who is the Ward Chairman and what is his opinion.? Has he been told?
ReplyDeleteThe Dame holds a good opinion of Nick Paget-Brown. She is glad to have been able to support his leadership challenge.
DeleteKeep up the good work. And don't forget to keep an eye on the less capable members of your Cabinet....for example, the odd Lightfoot.
Rinker is not welcome. The sooner he gets the meassge the better.
ReplyDeleteThe Dame offers this link....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=British_American_Project
Thank you Dame. Most enlightening. I stand corrected.
DeleteNew Orleans is in Louisiana. Just seen the brilliant 1949 Oscar winner "All the King's Men" starring Broderick Crawford. Set in the '20s and '30s, it's based on the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long, who came to a very sticky end. Wikipedia devotes much space to Mr Long and the history of Louisiana politics. Doubtless just coincidence.
ReplyDeleteJust coincidence as you say. It's an excellent film and a timely reminder of how power often corrupts even those who start off with the best of intentions.
DeleteI see from the Sunday Telegraph today that Tony Blair is now worth £70 million, including £13 million in the bank. Yes, £13 million in the bank. Shortly before he became Leader of the Labour Party I met Tony in my Club where he was dining with a mutual friend. He bounded up, full of enthusiasm, to say "hello, I am Tony Blair". I recall that he was wearing a suit that was one size too small, with shiny insides from too much pressing with a hot iron. And a worse for wear Marks and Spencer's shirt. And scruffy shoes that needed a clean.Clearly he did not have a penny to his name.
ReplyDeleteHow fortunes change.
Exactly so. All promised by the CIA, many moons ago.
DeleteRinker needs to be watched.