Sam
Gyimah Surrey East
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.
PS Source Private Eye 1257/6