Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Dose it work ?
Recession my arse
- Thread starter bobk
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Doesn't seem to be.
Some bloke on R4 just now re: water companies tearing the regulator and George a new one....
BBC very hot on the drought story now they can't top up their pools!!!
warksfarmer
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Best tell the banks then. Spoke to two yesterday and they both said the same.
Tarw Coch
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You’re more up to date than me then but when I spoke to a couple of banks about 3 months ago they were predicting a high of 2.5-3% and dropping within 2 years
Scholsey
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commonwealth games cost 800,000,000 to put on plus the cost of all the athletes supported by their government funding sporting bodies……. The money flying around is madness.
And they talk about reducing carbon emissions…..it’s just talk!
And….whilst Rome burns people will be cold and hungry this winter.
warksfarmer
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I tried to watch the commonwealth games but it was just crap. I don’t know anybody who’s taken a proper interest in it to be honest
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
The drought fits their climate change agenda .
cattleman123
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- devon
How many proper Hospitals would that have built... what a pure waste of money..and they say money is short
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Unbelievable, quite depressing that , what a bunch of vankers spending that on that shyt .
Interesting saw on my news feed the guardian said it was proof of climate change and every summer will be the same from now on, funny when we have a cold snap it's just "weather" but one hot summer is proof of change, wonder what they will say if next year is a wash out.
farmerm
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there was something like 1.5million tickets of which they sold the majority... only need an average ticket cost of £533 in order to ensure the games broke even....
I will admit we did go to "soak up the atmosphere" in Brum on Sunday and the city was very very busy but I am not sure I saw all that much evidence of where £800,000,000 was spent.
there was something like 1.5million tickets of which they sold the majority... only need an average ticket cost of £533 in order to ensure the games broke even....
games seem to have been very popular, lots of friends went to watch, tickets were not cheap either
never sure if these things really ever return what they cost directly however but how do you measure indirect benefits like more people taking up sports, spending money doing so and saving NHS cash long term ?
also think how much beyond tickets is spent in hotels and food etc over the days its on and leading up to it for contractors and facilitators / employment payroll generated by it all etc ? the money doesn’t leave the uk it just flows through it mostly
Hindsight
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Lack of interest in the SFI will provide the funds to balance the books with the Commonwealth Games. There - sorted. Can rely on benevolent farmers to fill the gap.
seedman stains
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does anything these days but after travelling lots of miles as a taxi its a nice feeling when one of them represents the country!!!
It is something that should be invested in
It is something that should be invested in
Hindsight
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I have a very tenuous link. And maybe appertain.
My daughter was a plodding runner - but managed to represent the County to add to her CV. But that means she has rubbed alongside runners for the past few years at Uni. And her London flat mate training partner was in the 4 by 400 metre team. I have seen the hours these youngster spend and the emotional trauma of being really, really good, but just not quite good enough, by just a split second compared to the competition, conscious there is only a few years to make it before being too old. By the way my daughters flat mates father is a sheep farmer from Wales.
My daughter was a plodding runner - but managed to represent the County to add to her CV. But that means she has rubbed alongside runners for the past few years at Uni. And her London flat mate training partner was in the 4 by 400 metre team. I have seen the hours these youngster spend and the emotional trauma of being really, really good, but just not quite good enough, by just a split second compared to the competition, conscious there is only a few years to make it before being too old. By the way my daughters flat mates father is a sheep farmer from Wales.
farmerm
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- Shropshire
Yes tickets certainly were not cheap. There were still tickets on Sunday but would have been £125/head to see the athletics! Promoting sport and putting funding into an area is indeed a good thing.
4course
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shame really, but other than a snippet or two on the news never had time to watch any of the games nor could I tell you the name of any gold medal winner or for that matter any participants. Yet when I was a lad represented school in county finals and at college was victor ludorum in running and field sports . One of my abiding memories of watching athletics was that of alan wells wife shouting him home in the 100m olympic final years ago. "come on alan"
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I think you have added a 0 on there. Surely 80 million would take it in ?
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
No, see link below. Provides more detail. But would need an analysis of sponsorship etc to get to true cost. The government had to underwrite the show.
Birmingham ready to open biggest ever Commonwealth Games which will leave lasting legacy for region
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says “This is Birmingham’s time to shine” with £778m public investment to leave lasting legacy for people of Birmingham and West Midlands