Tony Blair Reveals Anger at Gordon Brown for Aborting Super Casino
Tony Blair
Tony Blair has admitted how frustrated he was by his successor Gordon Brown’s decision to scrap the plans for a new super casino in Manchester. The release of Blair’s memoirs earlier this week has caused a number of issues to once again resurface, relating to certain aspects of the former Prime Minister’s ten year term. Blair’s comments in his memoirs regarding the matter consisted of calling Brown’s decision ‘the worst form of puritanism’ and ‘partisan as well as ineffectual’.
The casino was supposed to have created 3,500 jobs in the east of Manchester and was going to include a casino, entertainment centre including cinema and bowling alley, sports facilities and shops. The site was chosen to be the location of Britain’s first super casino, ahead of Blackpool and other cities. The decisions to build the casino in the first place and then to locate it in Manchester were made by MPs and an independent panel.
However, following Brown’s take over as Prime Minister in 2007, the plans were ditched in 2008. MP for Manchester Central Graham Stringer was reported by the Manchester Evening News as being in total agreement with Mr Blair. Stringer said: ‘Gordon’s decision was a combination of weakness and cowardice that lost east Manchester 3,500 jobs.’
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