Health & Safety my @rse

A company that oversaw health and safety on a £50 million construction project for Britain’s most powerful trade union was led by a man jailed for a knife attack, it can be disclosed.

Martin Grant, 33, from Liverpool, received a ten-year sentence in 2015 after creeping up on a man and slashing his face and fingers with a Stanley knife. The wounds required 90 stitches.

After Grant left prison in 2019 he was swiftly appointed managing director of Safety Support Consultants (SSC), a company owned by the son of Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool.

The company was awarded a contract to act as health and safety adviser during the construction in Birmingham of a conference centre, hotel and regional offices for the Unite union.

Senior members of Unite were told in 2012 that the cost of the development would be £7 million but it has since been estimated that the bill will be about £50 million, a figure the union disputes. The work was completed last year.

The lead contractor was the Flanagan Group, a Liverpool builder run by an associate of Len McCluskey, the union’s general secretary. He described the company in 2014 as “a working-class family who have made good”.


Seems like the ideal candidate for health and safety.


There is much more to the story of course with Mr McCluskey determined to prove he is the rightful heir to T Dan Smith and Derek Hatton, the latter having a finger in this particular pie too.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

A company that oversaw health and safety on a £50 million construction project for Britain’s most powerful trade union was led by a man jailed for a knife attack, it can be disclosed.

Martin Grant, 33, from Liverpool, received a ten-year sentence in 2015 after creeping up on a man and slashing his face and fingers with a Stanley knife. The wounds required 90 stitches.

After Grant left prison in 2019 he was swiftly appointed managing director of Safety Support Consultants (SSC), a company owned by the son of Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool.

The company was awarded a contract to act as health and safety adviser during the construction in Birmingham of a conference centre, hotel and regional offices for the Unite union.

Senior members of Unite were told in 2012 that the cost of the development would be £7 million but it has since been estimated that the bill will be about £50 million, a figure the union disputes. The work was completed last year.

The lead contractor was the Flanagan Group, a Liverpool builder run by an associate of Len McCluskey, the union’s general secretary. He described the company in 2014 as “a working-class family who have made good”.


Seems like the ideal candidate for health and safety.


There is much more to the story of course with Mr McCluskey determined to prove he is the rightful heir to T Dan Smith and Derek Hatton, the latter having a finger in this particular pie too.

Is there any leading preaching socialist, who is not a hypocritical money-making parody?

What’s the accusation here? I can’t see where McCluskey is making any money from this, perhaps you can enlighten us though?

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What’s the accusation here? I can’t see where McCluskey is making any money from this, perhaps you can enlighten us though?

Couldn't the same be said about the dodgy-looking PPE/covid-19 deals for friends of ministers and Tory party donors?

It'll be interesting to see if the police investigation into Joe Anderson and Derek Hatton leads anywhere. I know Unite have been Anderson backers, but I didn't realise until now that there is a family business relationship too.

I don’t know, hence why I asked.

Just couldn’t follow the logic as to how this bloke being given a job equates to McCluskey profiteering from the scheme?

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

A company that oversaw health and safety on a £50 million construction project for Britain’s most powerful trade union was led by a man jailed for a knife attack, it can be disclosed.

Martin Grant, 33, from Liverpool, received a ten-year sentence in 2015 after creeping up on a man and slashing his face and fingers with a Stanley knife. The wounds required 90 stitches.

After Grant left prison in 2019 he was swiftly appointed managing director of Safety Support Consultants (SSC), a company owned by the son of Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool.

The company was awarded a contract to act as health and safety adviser during the construction in Birmingham of a conference centre, hotel and regional offices for the Unite union.

Senior members of Unite were told in 2012 that the cost of the development would be £7 million but it has since been estimated that the bill will be about £50 million, a figure the union disputes. The work was completed last year.

The lead contractor was the Flanagan Group, a Liverpool builder run by an associate of Len McCluskey, the union’s general secretary. He described the company in 2014 as “a working-class family who have made good”.


Seems like the ideal candidate for health and safety.


There is much more to the story of course with Mr McCluskey determined to prove he is the rightful heir to T Dan Smith and Derek Hatton, the latter having a finger in this particular pie too.

Please explain the accusation ??

It’s one of those stories meant to show guilt just by someone being in the same story. A bit like implying Hansel and Gretl were up to no good.

The Union which McCluskey is head of, is disputing the bill. If he had that much influence and was up to no good they wouldn’t be disputing it.

PS obviously Tory central office is doing its best to distract attention from Tory government scandals by trying to indulge in a bit of whataboutism.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

PS obviously Tory central office is doing its best to distract attention from Tory government scandals by trying to indulge in a bit of whataboutism.

They’d never do that surely? They’re good honest people, that can’t be what they’re up to...🤔

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Please explain the accusation ??

What accusation? That McCluskey is cut from the same cloth as Anderson and co and the Flanagan family?  The muckrakers have only just started digging. That's how it started with T Dan Smith and Poulson, drip feed.

The H&S story is just a lovely irony.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13763932/unite-union-multi-million-pound-contracts/


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/unite-has-links-to-companies-investigated-for-bribery-69sf6gx55