Sam
Gyimah
WILL Sam Gyimah, prospective black Tory MP for the safe seat of Surrey East,
bring the kind of real-world experience the newly inclusive Tory party craves in
its MPs? The 33-year-old former
Oxford Union president,
CBI Entrepreneur of the
Future
and ex-Goldman Sachs banker has been the director of three liquidated companies
and one that went into receivership. Clearstone Training & Recruiting
[
in liquidation ] and its two heavily insolvent subsidiaries,
involved in training HGV lorry drivers, crashed in 2007. Gyimah had been a
Clearstone director and shareholder since 2003. Clearstone owed creditors
£3.45 million; its business was sold for £100,000; unsecured creditors received 1.5p in
the pound. Meanwhile the Resource Connection [
dissolved ] went into receivership in 2007 owing creditors
almost £2 million. And another Gyimah company,
WORKOLOGY NET has been warned by
Companies House that it will be struck off. Parent
Career Ability has
accumulated losses of more than £2.5 million. Sam talks the talks He does not
walk the walk.
Cameron wants him. Cameron is welcome to him. Would you want to put your fingers
anywhere near his mouth?
PS Source Private Eye 1257/6