Egg on their faces

Are the brothers and sisters of New Swansea Labour going to end up with egg on their faces? Having kicked up a huge fuss about the six pound charge for Swansea residents to swim in the new LC, David Phillips may be in for a shock when he sits down and does his sums. It appears that the before it closed, residents wanting to spend two hours in the old pool would have had to pay nine pounds. So far from 'penalising the worse off' as suggested by the Labour leader, the Swansea Administration has actually cut the cost by 50%. Oops!

And now for the good news!

New Labour hacks have been very keen to get onto the internet and local radio in the last 24 hours to accuse the Administration of trying to bury bad news but actually the reverse is true.

It is significant that this story about the early re-opening of the Leisure Centre has not featured in any of the Inside Outers' pronouncements. That is because they would prefer that it was not happening. Instead they have tried to manufacture a bad news story about e-government in an effort to bury the good news.

Labour closed down the Leisure Centre as a result of their incompetence and neglect. It has taken a new Administration to re-open it and to do so ahead of schedule.

Premature Exploitation

Labour obviously have the bit between their teeth over this story about the Pool Sanctuary however, they would do well to remember one thing before they try to exploit it.

If it had not been for their failure to maintain the Leisure Centre when they ran the Council that caused it to close and if it had not been for their undue haste to rescue themselves from electoral disaster by signing the lease on the Pool Sanctuary without carrying out all the necessary checks for obvious issues such as disabled access , then the Council would not be in this mess.

The cost of Labour's incompetence continues to mount up.

A proper business plan

Work is steadily progressing on the Labour party's Achilles heel. As the new concrete sets we can be assured that attractions like the Master blaster and Lazy river have been included in the price and not been Value Engineered out. Lessons have surely been learnt from the catastrophe of Labour's attempt at a Stadium business plan. Yesterday it slipped out that they had only factored in £11,000 to maintain the stadium.