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[Thomas Dalton]

On 19 September 2012 12:51, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 September 2012 12:08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 September 2012 10:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> He gets to decide which town goes forward,
>>>> and whichever town goes forward pays him a consultancy fee.
>
>>> This, OTOH, is spurious made-up bullshit.
>
>> No, it's pretty accurate. Roger made the decision to work with
>> Gibraltar and Gibraltar are paying him. Do you really think there is
>> no connection between those two facts? Of course he's working with
>> them because they are paying him - that's the point of paid work.
>
>
> "He gets to decide which town goes forward" is completely made-up, as
> has been noted.
>
> (How did you manage to quote that and then ignore it?)

Of course Roger decided who he was going to sign a contract with. Do
you think he was forced into it?