Sylvia Wilson comments on Queen's Birthday Honours

FYI HUTTIES…  My opinion: How crass that folk like Max Steinberg has been recognised (probably by some of his high placed cronies - allegedly) as worthy of a CBE for services to business and the community… (how Liverpool has faired through his reign is anyone's guess) regardless, he is only doing the job he was employed and paid to do. His M.O. as an "A1 climber” and his rise to the higher echelons of power has been swift, but not so productive… From a “glorified accountant” in the Housing Corporation, to Chief Exec of Elevate, (latterly known as Regeneration Pennine Lancashire Ltd) he made a “pigs ear” of the several areas under Elevate leaving all of the areas in decimation through demolition, boarded-up properties, shut down places of work, empty churches and lost communities... and with no new build during the c. ten years of HMRI to speak of during his term, (in the former Elevate areas) to show for the millions spent, except on plush offices, fancy cars, expenses for traipsing about the country attending conference after conference and his trademark of expensive “undertaker suits…!  

If anyone deserves the Queens award, it should be those who have been brave enough to fight to save their homes, work, church and communities whilst holding down full time jobs and running a family life, not those who are “patted on the back” for doing and being paid for government jobs…! 

 

Of the hundreds of heroes I know and have worked with over the last 12 years, every one of YOU should receive the highest accolade possible, you have shown true grit in the face of adversity… BRAVO, ALL OF YOU!   
 Sylvia Wilson

CBE for Riverside’s Max Steinberg Riverside Group Board member and Liverpool Vision chief executive, Max Steinberg, has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to business and to the community in Liverpool. Max was appointed to the Riverside Board on 1 April 2009. He became the Chief Executive of Liverpool Vision in July 2010 and led Liverpool’s presence at the Shanghai World Expo that year. He is now preparing to host the 2014 Festival of Business in Liverpool. He is Chair of the European Institute for Urban Affairs at Liverpool John Moores University. Max has held a number of senior posts delivering economic regeneration, including the Housing Corporation’s Director of Investment and Regeneration in the North and the Chief Executive of Regenerate Pennine Lancashire Ltd, one of the largest economic development companies in the UK.