The Labour opposition on Swansea Council are probing the Lib Dem led administration over whether the local authority’s financial shortfall can now be made up by some payback for Liberty stadium during a forthcoming season of top flight football.
It’s just a pity that a news item appearing elsewhere reports that of the seven (out of 72) councillors who have opted to claim back the cost of recently introduced car parking permits for members, all of them happen to be Labour – and include the group leader.
It’s not just in football that timing is everything.
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Stones and glasshouses come to mind !!
Agreed, shameful posturing designed to give a tiny degree of profile to a very 'small' party.
The Premiership is the richest league in the football world, yet you can be sure STADCO will conveniently fail to show a profit from the forthcoming season even with the Swans selling out every home game.
Is there another Premier Lg. club being subsidised by the local council-tax payer to this extent?
The BBC site says "Swansea City moved to the £27m Liberty Stadium in 2005 after the council paid most of the money to build it.
The new Premier League club pay a peppercorn rent to a loss-making management company running the stadium but the council has received nothing."
I hadn't heard much about this on the BBC.
Why does football get so much free subsidy, while the football players lead extravagant, decadent, and profligate lives that are used to taunt teenagers with an unattainable fantasy? Just because Swansea has only just reached premier league, that is no reason why they should belatedly join in the useless fashion that football achieved in in the 2000s. If Swansea really wants to catch up with the rest of the world, they should forget about trying to have Wayne Rooneys, and concentrate on running their business and their profession at an honest profit, meaning that they should pay their rent, work hard to win their games, and set a good example for the rest of the country. Then, for once, Swansea would again be setting the fashion for this country, instead of just trailing behind like some embarrased ahd self-pitying 8 year old.
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