| Place your bets mesdames et m’sieurs as Glasgow heads into the
playoff in the bid to host the UK’s mooted "super casino". Glasgow Council
are dead keen on the idea, officially because it will create 4000 jobs, unofficially
because the casino promoters are promising that the venture will lead to a major
redistribution of income in the city. Spokesvingtetun, Vinnie D’Castlemilko told
The JT: "Experience elsewhere shows that casinos perform a useful social function in
taking money from stupid, poor people who think they can beat the house and storing the
money safely in the bank accounts of casino owners." |
Although a report was published this week questioning the job
creation figure, Glasgow Council officials admit not to having read the critical document
- mainly because of the report’s distressing use of hard sums, complex arguments and
big words. Rather inevitably, this whole get-poor-quick scheme is being promoted,
UK-wide, by Mr Tony in yet another brave initiative to support "Hard-working
Families" (copyright every bloody domestic policy pronouncement every made by New
Labour). |
The logic here presumably is that hard-working families can take
their hard-worked-for wages and blow them on puggies, thus requiring said families to work
even harder to buy luxuries like food leading to increased macro-economic productivity. It’s
all thought out you know.
Gaming sub-committee of Glasgow
Council meet to discuss casino bid. |
