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| Originally Posted by Bantam Just to piss on your bonfire a little here, the Dome was a Tory thing which Labour decided to carry on with because it was actually a good idea.
And did you go there? It was actually very very good. |
Aye, championed by multi-millionaire man-of-the-people Mike Hesseltine. The only thing wrong with it really was that the tories aversion to public transport meant that the tube link wasn't ready and so massive overtime payments were made to remedy their piss poor planning. Also the obsession that things have to make money - so it was doomed to fail from day one. And the fact that (since the English have no decent managers) they didn't let the French chappie run it first off.
So much could have been done with it - concerts. sporting events and the like. But it has stood empty while the accountants argue about who gets the big wadge of (public) dosh that is swilling around. What a disgrace.
By all means build things like this but lets not kid ourselves that they are commercially viable.
Chris