by dimairt » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:37 pm
I was in Munich last year for the World Cup and saw how much it meant/brought to the city and not just in financial terms: talk of a"new German spirit" wasn't bullshit.
My son lives in Melbourne and he said that he saw the same effect there during the Commonwealth Games. I'd like that for my home town - and it is my home town, not the Council's and certainly not the Labour Party's.
The difference though between Munich/Melbourne and Glasgow is, for me, that they're both already prosperous, successful cities. Glasgow, by contrast, is trying to rebuild itself (again) on the back of a major event. Remember the Garden Festival? What about the Great Eastern Area Renewal project of the 1980s, said to have created less than one hundred jobs after almost twenty years?
I'm old enough to remember the day before yesterday and I have no confidence in the abilities of a Labour-lead council to pull this off. (By the way, that's not an endorsement of the conspiracy nonsense above.)
Silly me, I've just realised that the Council will, of course, bring in "consultants" to do the work.
Le durachd,
Dimairt