Channel 4. Secret Millionaire. A Property Developer

PasturesNew

He's in Salford.

space_rider

Some info on him!

http://richardbaker.thisisnottingham.co.uk/2008/04/fall-of-fish-and-rise-of-whyte.html

neverdespairgirl

I saw a bit of this programme once, and thought it was absolutely disgusting. "Watch me cry crocodile tears and patronise poor people"

epz_2

I turned off when he mentioned the books in his library were priced per foot, !!!!!! is the point in having a library for decoration.

pawpurrs

To be Pretenious

lynzpower

Ive got something to tell you

Im not who you think I am

Im not unemployed and on benefits like you lot Im a VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN AND MILLIONAIRE- so im going to give you £1000"

the power household can never believe how little these so called millionaires give away. 15k? Sorry thats pocket change.
This programme makes me feel the same way as you NDG- philanthropy turned on its head

skap7309

I saw this last night and found him to be genuine and generally concerned for the area. Yes he was a property developer but he had done very well from it and got a first hand view of some of the areas and offered to give his companies free time in order to help. That is something you would never see.
Lynz, you have to remember it is his own money and he did not have to sign up to the program and give all that away to complete strangers. Did you see the faces of people who without him would not have got what they did?

huntersc

skap7309 wrote: »

I saw this last night and found him to be genuine and generally concerned for the area. Yes he was a property developer but he had done very well from it and got a first hand view of some of the areas and offered to give his companies free time in order to help. That is something you would never see.
Lynz, you have to remember it is his own money and he did not have to sign up to the program and give all that away to complete strangers. Did you see the faces of people who without him would not have got what they did?

I question the motivation of anyone that gives away money on TV where everyone can see them doing it. I know plenty of people that give away a lot of money, heck, maybe I give money to the needy, maybe I don't but the point is I'm not telling anyone about it.

It's hardly charitable giving away money and letting everyone know about it, it's self serving.

napoleon

skap7309 wrote: »

I saw this last night and found him to be genuine and generally concerned for the area. Yes he was a property developer but he had done very well from it and got a first hand view of some of the areas and offered to give his companies free time in order to help. That is something you would never see.
Lynz, you have to remember it is his own money and he did not have to sign up to the program and give all that away to complete strangers.

Open your eyes. He only did the program so he could get his ugly mug on TV.

PasturesNew

In regeneration areas you have to wonder what happens to the people in the houses that are compulsary purchased.

There was a couple in the programme, they were retired and had lived there over 20 years. So no mortgage, no job. But happy. He said the new houses they were building were called "affordable homes", but with the money he would be paid to sell his house he wouldn't be able to buy one and wouldn't be able to get a mortgage (and being mortgage free now, why should he at any age?).

What happens to people like this? Perhaps forced to sell their home at £60k, yet a new house that replaces it costing £100k?

neverdespairgirl

skap7309 wrote: »

That is something you would never see.
Lynz, you have to remember it is his own money and he did not have to sign up to the program and give all that away to complete strangers.

I'm with the Bible on this one, particularly "charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up". You can't get much more puffed up or vaunting itself than this programme:


1: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2: And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3: And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5: Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7: Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8: Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9: For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10: But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.