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It is (relatively) easy. Just offer to give Blackpool the big casino license and take it from Manchester.

This is because Blackpool, from being an attractive (by UK standards) resort is getting really run down. Most of the people there are in service/entertainment and allied work. Making it Europe's Las Vegas could make it -well, a little like Las Vegas. Manchester is a serious city, even if stupid, and has had a lot of money already spent on serious things there. Sensible people (in Manchester) will not want more organised crime there. There have always been seedy fleshpots around Ardwick etc. and that has never been any use, but Blackpool can stand it a bit better.

The big advantage in having the big casino in Manchester is that it will become so obviously counterproductive and such a blight, even able to ruin and blight the entire country more than it already has been corrupted and ruined by successive corrupt Governments, both Tory and Labor. So it could be closed down then? In theory, yes, but the rot has almost gone too far already. So I don't give that sensible result much chance. Actually most sensible people prefer no casinos, with Blackpool second choice to that.

IMO: I have been to Las Vegas a number of times, though I do not gamble, and I disapprove of casinos existing at all. But Blackpool is more harmless for a big casino, and more suited.. There are many other things than casinos that could make both Blackpool and Manchester prosper - I've tried to make that clear in earlier blogs - and the right thing would be to ban large organised gambling entirely in the UK as the results otherwise will certainly be extremely ugly. But the violent Mafia crime scum who call themselves politicians in this country think only of their own pockets and to Hell with the citizens