McCartney condemns Cash for Honours SCAM

Ipedia Limited was incorporated on 17 January 2006 with a registered office and trading address at 4 Shepherds Way, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2AB.. The sole director of the company from 6 June 2006 was Mr Stephen Andrew Cocker. Mrs Joanne Cocker was the company secretary.

The registered office was a shed in the Cocker's garden. Their route to riches was detailed on their website www.channel6TV.co.uk . The server has closed down but the this link will take you to the fascinating cached home page.

Basically these wannabe billionaires (mis)represented themselves as controlling a media company called Channel 6TV with an internet television station on which it was about to broadcast. It claimed the TV channel would follow the progress of applicants as they worked on the Billion Pound Empire.

Applicants responding to the company's internet advertisements were invited to pay a £150 fee to become part of this tantalising prospect project (Curiously enough not named Project Midas) whereby 1000 individuals would each make £1 million in one year thereby creating a billion pound business empire - apparently 93 poor saps sent off their cheques. Some savvy keyboardists at Shell Live Wire had smelled out the scam by April 2006.

The harsh reqality was the garden shed at 4 Shepherds Way had no equipment, no studio and was incapable of producing a television programme or carrying out what it purported to offer. The company had no proper banking arrangements and did not keep adequate accounting records.

This comic duo had their dreams wound up in the High Court today after an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of The Insolvency Service.

Consumer Minister Ian McCartney said:
"These scams are outrageous, ripping off those who can least afford it. The people behind them have no shame and we will not hesitate to shut them down".

It is not known if the scam Mr McCartney was referring to related to taking in "donations "(...er..."loans") to the New Labour Party in exchange for some very fancy dress and saucy headgear, and the right to interfere with preparing UK legislation whilst being paid a handsome retainer.

It is good to see Mr McCartney is up and about after his two heart operations in summer 2005, especially as he survived a visit by pert, raven haired, glamorous, pouting suspender clad Ruth Turner ( Prime Minister's head of government relations - see pic of visit (c) Lancashire Evening Post) bearing flowers, restorative grapes (see pic) messages of goodwill and some tiresome paperwork for House of Lords Appointments Commission enabling New Labour donors to be put forward for peerages.

On reflection this was DEFINITELY not the scam that Mr McCartney Consumer Minister was referring to today. NO. NO. Miss Ruth Turner did not supply nor did Mr McCartney sign false certificates stating untruths about the status of loans / donations / gifts of millions of pounds to the New Labour Party by good honest down to earth working class folk who had been proposed for Life Peerages. NO. Absolutely Not.

...and Inspector Knacker (nee Yates) of the Yard is evidently wasting not only his time but considerable sums of tax payers money in pursuing this "ludicrous endeavour."Yes. Completely.Totally. Time better spent chasing Muslims who have books about Ju-jitsu and look very, very suspicious.


PS. Channel 6TV is a very respectable TV station serving residents of Central Kentucky in Marion, Washington and Nelson Counties. http://www.channel6tv.com/