Linda Riley

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These are from Private Eye from 2018 but she’s still doing the same grift

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@Mr Krabs found this really detailed article about when she tried to take her dodgy awards to Australia and NZ.

thespinoff.co.nz

Rainbow disconnection: ‘Gay Oscars’ founder lays police complaint

The business partnership behind the controversial LGBTI Awards has gone nuclear with one director accusing the other of theft. It's the latest fracas over awards the Kiwi rainbow community doesn't want.
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Years ago, before I knew much about her, I thought Linda Riley was great because she’s an out lesbian who’s very successful and powerful in the media. I’m bi, and I know how important representation is.

Now I just think she’s a nasty piece of work, and it’s kind of insulting to the LGBT community to use diversity as a shield (in that people will automatically think she’s doing a good thing, and not look into the details).
 
This was mentioned in the Private Eye article, but I think it deserves more attention.

In 2015, a planning application was approved for a women’s museum in East London. It was described by the people behind it as this -

The museum will recognize and celebrate the women of the East End who have shaped history, telling the story of how they have been instrumental in changing society. It will analyze the social, political and domestic experience from the Victorian period to the present day.”
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Sounds great. But when the museum opened, it was actually a Jack The Ripper museum!

Understandably people were angry at being misled, and feminists (rightly, in my opinion) were angry about the museum “monetizing the murder of working class women.”

Who the duck decided this shambles? One of the directors of the museum was Linda Riley.


ETA. more info here -


FFS.

A UK charity fighting violence against women has denied that it will receive donations from the Jack the Ripper Museum in east London. A statement from Eaves Charity said the claim that part of the attraction’s profits would go to the Eaves Charity was not true and that no-one relating to the “museum” had approached it. “As a charity with a long history of supporting women survivors of violence we are unhappy with the way in which the museum has used our name without permission….We have contacted the museum and asked them to remove us from their website and will continue to contact them until they do so.”
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In 2021 the museum was auctioned off.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jack the Ripper museum in Whitechapel to be sold

When it opened, the museum on Cable Street was criticised for glamorising violence against women.
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Here’s more information about Riley’s involvement, it looks like she was a director of the company behind the museum, but then distanced herself.

morningstaronline.co.uk

Eagle Diversity Guru Linked to Murderous Museum

Linda Riley was director of Ripper firms
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Yes she always seems to be mixed up in these things, in a somewhat hapless way? Like, seems to jump in then it goes all weird.
You’d think she’d get a bit more savvy each time and yet, here we are. She is essentially a salesperson. She “manages accounts” aka siphons sponsorship out of large corporations.
 
Sideboard Bob said:
@Mr Krabs found this really detailed article about when she tried to take her dodgy awards to Australia and NZ.

thespinoff.co.nz

Rainbow disconnection: ‘Gay Oscars’ founder lays police complaint

The business partnership behind the controversial LGBTI Awards has gone nuclear with one director accusing the other of theft. It's the latest fracas over awards the Kiwi rainbow community doesn't want.
thespinoff.co.nz


Years ago, before I knew much about her, I thought Linda Riley was great because she’s an out lesbian who’s very successful and powerful in the media. I’m bi, and I know how important representation is.

Now I just think she’s a nasty piece of work, and it’s kind of insulting to the LGBT community to use diversity as a shield (in that people will automatically think she’s doing a good thing, and not look into the details).
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It is no wonder that Linda and Guest (Jack Monroe for any non JM thread visitors) are friends. It is frightening how similar they are in their character and also how they present themselves to the world.

Grifty birds of a feather really do flock together.
 
stunrw said:
Just browsing the liquidators reports. Screenshot provided without comment……
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Dodgy as hell!

What my simpleton's brain has never been able to understand is how you can have multiple situations like this with your companies and yet you can then go and start another seemingly unchecked?
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House of Carbonara said:
Perfectly matched, wouldn't you say...
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Learning what I have about Linda today it now makes total sense why she has stuck by Jack.
 
stunrw said:
And a bit more browsing; another company (company secretary in 21, director in 22.

Incorporated in 2021. First set of accounts showing aggregate debts of £714k from July 21 to July 22.
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Firstly I love and am so impressed by you guys and what you can find. Who needs an investigative podcast when you’ve got tattle threads 💅🏻

Secondly how the duck is a company with no cash at bank to meet these obligations when they fall due or assets for liquidators to liquidate managing to find such huge credit lines? Especially because she’s spinning up new entities constantly it’s not as if these Ltds will have built any credit history?
 
I've been racking my brains because I knew about the Jack the ripper museum but I was sure there was a similar scandal.

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Sherlock Holmes Museum boss wins fight to evict brother from home in 10-year row

Businessman John Aidiniantz who owns London's Sherlock Holmes Museum in London and his siblings have clocked up over 100 court appearances and racked up more than £2.5m in costs
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heretoreaditall2019 said:
Firstly I love and am so impressed by you guys and what you can find. Who needs an investigative podcast when you’ve got tattle threads 💅🏻

Secondly how the duck is a company with no cash at bank to meet these obligations when they fall due or assets for liquidators to liquidate managing to find such huge credit lines? Especially because she’s spinning up new entities constantly it’s not as if these Ltds will have built any credit history?
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Because they are exempt accounts it doesn't break down what these debts are. But i’d guess Directors Loan Account is a big chunk of that. Cash at bank £47k 😂

And the liquidators comments about the previous company and the directors lack of cooperation as to where €800k went speak for themselves
 
Also got the image from browsing the company details that any meeting with the liquidator had SHANT in it when they asked where £800k went or how it was to be paid back

But then she fucked off to America (according to Begbies Traynor) so wasn't worth the cost of chasing it.

An accountancy adjacent Frau may be able to help out here

Also worth noting that a lot of her companies are either struck off through compulsory action or have that listed and discontinued. Which would suggest a chaotic attitude to compliance
 
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