Swansea’s somewhat embattled Lib Dems will not have appreciated the irony of the headline which appeared in the local paper yesterday. The question, “Are our leisure centres at risk” is actually speculation over whether leisure and cultural services in the city will stay in direct public ownership or get hived off to a non-accountable trust. Yet, if Lib Dem propaganda is to be believed, it was the poor stewardship of such facilities that became a crucial electoral factor in the past - so why should it be any different now?Plaid’s sole lackey representative on the council gives the impression that he is going to be influential in the process of determining the next steps. We reckon he has as much chance in that respect as he does in getting fifth spot in the Gower Assembly contest where he is standing as a candidate – or didn’t the local paper mentions that salient fact?
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Lib Dems in Swansea follow the model set by Labour in Neath Port Talbot. What's the problem?
I don't see much hope for the Leisure Centre industry, because:
- they have been around for years, and still there are so many unfit, overweight and plainly obese people, whom yet cannot be bothered to walk to the shops, or cut down on the money they waste on crisps and junk food.
- they aren't cheap, and they take time, so anybody bothered to exercise will deduce that it's easier to get a bike or eat healthily.
- the body show-off culture doesn't work, along with all other look-at-me-and-follow-my-example messaging, when proper intelligent dialogue is now craved by every level of citizen.
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