Vox pop: £658m World Student Games debt to be cleared in April - what are the lessons?
Vox pop: £658m World Student Games debt to be cleared in April - what are the lessons? What should money be spent on?
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00:00 and do not lend money like that to pay off for something that we don't need that's not necessary.
00:06 What should they do? How should they go about it doing these things?
00:10 They should put more money into hospitals and schools and things like that rather than games.
00:16 Yeah. It built Don Valley Stadium, Ponds Forge, there was money for the Lyceum. Well yeah I
00:24 suppose Ponds Forge and Lyceum were good but Don Valley Stadium, is that still there? No. Exactly.
00:31 They knocked it down same as that Millennium Dome, they knocked that down didn't they? They built it,
00:37 used it and then knocked it down. But yeah I think they'd be better used for that money in
00:43 other places. I think council always waste money. So I think the £658 million for the student games
00:53 is an absolutely insane amount of money and I think it stands as a lesson that maybe funding
01:02 kind of the roads, the streets, the infrastructure, you know, regenerating the centre of town would
01:11 have been money better spent than on vanity projects like the student games.
01:15 Does it teach us anything for the future?
01:21 I think it teaches us to be very careful before spending money on things that seem like a good
01:28 idea. I think, you know, we've still got Fargate and I think the containers at the end is probably
01:32 a much smaller example but an example of the council getting very excited about something
01:38 that's going to bring positive headlines and it actually backfiring and making them look a bit
01:43 ridiculous.