In message , at 12:04:39 on Thu, 1 Dec 2011,
Jim Chisholm remarked:
Battersea Power Station is going into receivership, with its £5.5bn
development scheme in tatters, two days after George Osborne and Boris
Johnson posed in hardhats to announce an enterprise zone and tube
extension to the listed building.

Given the timing, we can only assume that there was something extra
required (in terms of handouts from George/Boris) to save the project,
and what they offered was not deemed adequate and was therefore the
'last straw'.
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Roland Perry