Good on you Gordon.
I, for one, am pleased that there is to be a review of the super casino plans for East Manchester, and that the talk is that the proposal is 'dead in the water'. The BBC reports that Manchester MP's and the city council are not that pleased. East Manchester MP Graham Stringer said that the people of Manchester would not be happy; this person from Manchester is happy!
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Slight correction (although you probably didn't mean this in the first place) - one Manchester MP, namely Lib-Dem John Leech MP of Withington - is defiantly pleased the plans seems to be sinking. Especially as the thinking behind it seems to have shifted. Brown (and I echo the warm sentiments about him), believes that traditional re-generation, rather than supercasinos will be more effective in reducing deprivation and poverty.
And I cannot not mention (excuse the double negative) that the main opposition in Manchester (ahem - the err... Lib-Dems again) are also pleased that the casino plans seems to axed, for exactly the same reason that Brown gives.
He already seems much more in touch with this side of things than Blair ever did. I think Blair had a blind spot to poverty / economic deprivation / economics, that Brown doesn't suffer.
....Lev
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