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GORDON BROWN SACK IDLE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MINISTER SION SIMON NOW AND PROMOTE GISELA STUART TO SAVE JOBS.

BRITISH BASED FILM MAKING IS IN URGENT PERIL. WE NEED GISELA TO GET BRITAIN THOUSANDS OF FILM MAKING JOBS.

SIMON SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY HIS SALARY BACK.

EVEN JOHN BARNES AT TRANMERE FC DID A MUCH BETTER JOB, AT LEAST HE TURNED UP AT WORK AND TRIED.

Save The British Film Industry call on the Prime Minister to sack the idle Creative Industries Minister Sion Simon immediately and promote Gisela Stuart MP to this vital position to save British based film-making.

Sion Simon has stated he will step down as Creative Industries Minister later in the month, and getting  pay up to that day. He has said he will step down as MP for Erdington only three weeks after assuring Birmingham people that this was a false rumour and that he would definitely stand again at the next election.

We warned you he had gone AWOL from his well paid minister’s job

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/01/once-upon-a-time-pinewood-studios-was-all-about-films-not-property-deals-but-we-may-still-see-that-british-based-movie-makers-all-lived-happily-ever-after/

We warned you

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/01/east-enders-joining-coronation-street-with-james-bond-sherlock-holmes-batman-all-to-be-filmed-in-same-place-all-roads-lead-to-pinewood-studios-owner-john-whittaker/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2009/12/gisela-stuart-writing-to-peter-mandelson-over-pinewood-shepperton-plc-monopoly/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2009/12/pinewood-shepperton-plc-shares-collapsing-again-and-continue-to-significantly-underperform-ftse/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2009/12/get-gisela-stuart-mp-in-the-cabinet-now-gordon-brown-before-007-leaving-britain-is-your-epitaph/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7145021/MPs-expenses-Sion-Simon-to-stand-down-as-MP-for-Birmingham-Erdington.html

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/153773/Now-007-could-leave-Britain-for-Far-East 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/27/pinewood-studios-green-belt

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/03/digital-economy-bill-sion-simon

British based film making is in real jeapordy and The Titanic is nearing the iceberg. Meanwhile Captain Sion Simon who has drawn a salary as Creative Industries Minister has been indolent and ignored every request made over 12 months to wake up and do his job. He has taken his monies along with his expenses but done absolutely nothing for it.

The situation is urgent concerning the future of Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios. Gisela Stuart MP has been the only pro-active MP who has had serious talks with a representative of Pinewood Shepperton Board seeking a British regions expansion policy as opposed to Third World outsourcing.

Pinewood are gearing up to move to Malaysia and China if they are thwarted, which they will be, to get a £500 million windfall from a housing estate on greenbelt land.

Gisela Stuart has been outstandingly diligent in this vital matter to keep British Based film-making alive. 

There are also now huge opportunities with every Hollywood Studio who may have to set up EU bases to protect access to EU cinema screens, and Britain needs to be batting hard to get these rather than see them float elsewhere.

If Gordon Brown promotes Gisela Stuart now, this very week, then he might even win an additional 25 seats at the election as she can save real jobs, deliver many new jobs and a huge feelgood around The UK.

She is the only MP who has got Pinewood Shepperton Board to the negotiating table.

Film making and tourism is one of the few things the world still wants to pay Britain to provide. It is a vital strategic industry and we need a hardworking, highly compotent Minister in place right now.

James Bond 23 filming at Pinewood Studios this summer may be the last there, and Pinewood and Shepperton could be a housing estate, car park or supermarket distribution centre within a few years.

However, if the Project Pinewood vision of  building state of the art film sets such as  Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, New York were done big and bold around The UK regions, then we can get over 50% of all Film and TV productions in every language creating 250 000 jobs here.

If sets such as The Pyramids, Sci-Fi sets, Beijing, Tokyo, Rio de Janiro were added  then this could make The UK the world’s leading tourist destination. 

Sion Simon should not be allowed to serve his notice to milk another undeserved pay cheque. We think he should be surcharged for his salary which he did nothing for.

He is now jumping ship both as Creative Industries Minister and as MP for Erdington in Birmingham. But he is only doing so because his constituents are going to take away his 10 000 majority. He even lied about standing down as an MP in The Stirrer website three weeks ago. He is trying to go out in a blaze of glory, possibly hoping for a local media job by his apparent campaign to be Mayor of Birmingham. Gordon Brown should boot him out right away and not let him leave on his own terms.

Simon has said that Birmingham needs ”strong, dynamic leadership”.

Well that disqualifies him. Simon has talked of his  ‘badge of commitment to the city’ but he is only committed to himself. He has let down Britain, everyone seeking employment in the creative industries, and he has certainly let down Birmingham. He says Birmingham has had a raw deal from Westminster which is true. But Britain and especially Birmingham has had a much more raw deal from him. John Barnes did a much much better job as manager of Tranmere FC than he has in his well paid cushy Minister’s role. At least Barnes turned up at work each day and tried to do the job he was paid for. 

ADRIAN GOLDBERG, Talksport Radio host, BBC Politics presenter, documentary maker is superb on Sion Simon.

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/february10/simon-has-a-mayor-over-resignation-030210.html

How can you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving. Who can blame the public for having such a cynical attitude to their elected representatives when the likes of Sion Simon insist they are staying in parliament – only to announce they are standing down little more than three weeks later.

The Erdington MP and Creative Industries Minister was adamant at the start of the month that he was staying put, after we reported rumours of his impending resignation.

We said it was time he pulled his finger out as Creative Industries Minister and did something positive for his home city.

Bizarrely, Simon – who is in the process of repaying £21,000 after breaching Commons expenses rules – says that he wants to stand as Birmingham’s first elected Mayor, a post which doesn’t even exist.

But why he thinks voters should back him, when anything he says might be reversed less than a month later, remains a mystery.

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/february10/simon-has-a-mayor-over-resignation-030210.html

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/january09/simon-says-070110.html

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/politics-news/2010/01/07/birmingham-mp-sion-simon-denies-he-will-stand-down-before-election-65233-25548073/

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/december09/sorry-simon-repays-21k-1812091.html

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/january09/simon-says-i-stay-080110.html

Plus no-one says it like Simon. ABSOLUTELY no-one does it like Simon !!!!

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/you-tube-0708091.html            

We need a real heavyweight minister now in this mass employer and also a really good one after the election in an increasingly vital part of The UK economy facing urgent crises and missing fantastic inward investment opportunities.

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com