No surprises in seeing that council leader Chris Holley has managed to get himself sandbagged by the local paper by making positive grunting noises is response to queries over whether Swansea will bid to become UK City of Culture in 2013. The announcement should come as a surprise to his colleagues and also something of an embarrassment to fellow Lib Dem leader Rodney Berman who has only recently ruled out the prospect of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport entering the competition.
Berman, who is also financial spokesman for the Welsh Local Government Association, dismissed the possibility of competing and claimed that: “Welsh local government has found itself repeatedly squeezed and so it is no surprise that no city council in Wales feels it can rush into what might be a very costly bidding process for UK City of Culture.” But spending money on supporting basic services whilst saving local jobs appears to take second place in Holley’s personal world.
Having just pocketed around £11 million from flogging off more land at Gorseinon, you’d think that even the useless bladders running things at Calamity Hall would be talking about priorities that are far more in touch with public needs. But why should we expect anything coherent when the man announcing the bid starts off with the statement that "Swansea has more culture than you can shake a stick at".
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