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Post by kendall17 on Jan 24, 2012 14:39:43 GMT 1
West Ham/Spurs have a shiny new football ground. Their old football grounds will be sold with planning permission for a supermarket or housing development or something like. This will create many jobs or much needed affordable housing. Do I need to carry on with points on boosts for the economy etc? Forgive me but thats for london. Won't help leeds, won't help glasgow, won't help bristol, won't help hull nor york, manchester, liverpool, plymouth, skipton. Tell me the benefits for YORKSHIRE, for anything out of the M25? I'm on about after, not before and NOT during, but AFTER! So tell me any benefits for the economy outside M25/London area. Just read those few articles and work out the long term benefits for Yorkshire and the whole of the UK. There are plenty more that are benefitting indirectly. Indirectly being the key word. |
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Post by fwybuses on Jan 24, 2012 18:58:43 GMT 1
Again majority of those are for Before or during the game. I'm on about after, and not few months after, but years after. Them sites will become ideal till the next Olympics. It's stupid, overpriced event. Maybe if our country wasn't so tied up in WHITE TAPE, we would be alright. Like i say, take it back to where it came from. Greece will benefit much better then we ever will, not every 4 years, but every 3rd/4th Olympic's it should be held there.
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Post by kendall17 on Jan 24, 2012 19:27:16 GMT 1
Again majority of those are for Before or during the game. Them sites will become ideal till the next Olympics. It's stupid, overpriced event. I know they're before or during, but at the end of the line, they will provide a better economy and could be a kick start. I presume you mean the sites wont be used until the next olympics? The olympic village is becoming hotels, houses, offices etc. The venues have future uses, such as sports centres, football stadiums, training facilities for our athletes. |
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Post by fwybuses on Jan 24, 2012 23:34:38 GMT 1
A potential kick start. However i see it being a temporary economic boost, before we settle back to the slow sluggish growth.
Again they are all economic benefits for the south. Where are the ones for the long term after Olympics for us, and the north! I don't see it! Which is why I'm saying Greece. Everyone gets "Greece" lets go there. People want to see Athens, and will happily pay visits to the islands to see the Greek history. It helps them, they have the infrastructure there to support it, and don't then have to use them for "offices" "hotels" "stadiums" until the next one comes along. Unlike us, when the the next one comes along instead of kicking them out, we build another Village.
If this would be the World Cup on the other hand, we would VERY much in a different debate.
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Post by danielnew on Jan 25, 2012 1:01:06 GMT 1
I agree with fwybuses to some extent, having been to Athens, been on a tour of the stadiums and studied them as part of my degree last year I would conclude that Greece has under-used infrastructure including a Metro system to support the olympic games and with their financial crisis worse than ours, they would reap far more benefit from hosting them. Greece needs tourism and the endless shifting of olympic games from country to country whilst admirable is unpracticle in terms of the costly infrastructure requirements to support them.
However as a UK citizen, it may have benefits for our country in boosting tourism and we may benefit from some of the extra transport infrastructure created as they have done with the Metro in Athens.
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Post by sconehead85 on Feb 8, 2012 5:26:09 GMT 1
2012 London benefits LONDON. End of story!
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Post by clifton on Feb 10, 2012 21:32:36 GMT 1
At least London will get all the additional congestion it will create ;D
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Jun 17, 2012 21:10:44 GMT 1
I wonder how many of the new First double-deckers for the Olympics will then come to West Yorkshire? I could be willing to come in October rather than the August Bank Holiday if I get a whiff of post-Olympics magic coming here by then!
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Post by mollman on Jun 19, 2012 15:08:52 GMT 1
Unfortunately the torch relay doesn't benefit Britain as well as it should given that the cars are German (BMW) the coaches are German(?) Van Hools and the buses are Northern Irish (that being the UK and not Great Britain). Surely if the relay was going to demonstrate the best of Britain then the coaches would be Plaxton and the buses either ADL or Optare
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Post by kendall17 on Jun 20, 2012 12:55:51 GMT 1
Unfortunately the torch relay doesn't benefit Britain as well as it should given that the cars are German (BMW) the coaches are German(?) Van Hools and the buses are Northern Irish (that being the UK and not Great Britain). Surely if the relay was going to demonstrate the best of Britain then the coaches would be Plaxton and the buses either ADL or Optare Name me a British based car manufacturer? They obviously went for quality products are the right price. |
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Post by Burnside on Jun 20, 2012 13:27:41 GMT 1
Honda, Nissan, Vauxhall and Ford to name 4
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Post by kendall17 on Jun 20, 2012 13:45:08 GMT 1
Honda, Nissan, Vauxhall and Ford to name 4 They aint British based. They have manufacturing plants in the UK, but aren't based here. (My fault for not being clear!) |
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Jun 20, 2012 17:23:46 GMT 1
Honda, Nissan, Vauxhall and Ford to name 4 They aint British based. They have manufacturing plants in the UK, but aren't based here. (My fault for not being clear!) Vauxhall, Aston Martin, Bentley and Noble. 4 Car manufacturers in the UK. |
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Jun 20, 2012 17:54:01 GMT 1
They aint British based. They have manufacturing plants in the UK, but aren't based here. (My fault for not being clear!) Vauxhall, Aston Martin, Bentley and Noble. 4 Car manufacturers in the UK. Morgan based in Malvern |
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Post by sconehead85 on Jun 20, 2012 18:21:03 GMT 1
The London Olympics were supposed to have been privately funded and sponsored. The sponsor went bust and the games were nationalised. All Yorkshire and the provinces will get is the bill.
As for the UK-assembled cars mentioned, only Vauxhalls (part of GM) are seen in any quantity in this country. This is the same nonsense as promoted as the reason for the "success" of the Mountbatten-Windsor family. In 1952 most cars in Britain were British owned and manufactured. Bentley is owned by Volkswagen by the way. Only Morgan is totally British. Not much chance of a traffic jam full of those!
I dont think Greece will want the Olympics back for a VERY long time if Robertos Pestonopoulos is correct!
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Post by timelesstable on Jun 20, 2012 20:55:28 GMT 1
According to the BMW adverts they are sponsors of the Games so why should they get some publicity from the torch relay
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Post by Burnside on Jun 21, 2012 6:43:44 GMT 1
Nissan (Sunderland), Honda (Swindon), Toyota (Derby), Ford (Southampton) are all widely seen but are manufacturing outposts, i agree.
Manufacturers actually based in the UK include Land Rover and Jaguar which are widely seen and despite being owned by the indians, are still based in this country. Others are Aston Martin, Bentley and Mini.
Bentley and Mini, despite being owned by VW and BMW respectively, are still based in Britain.
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