Police asked to probe Commonwealth Games land deals

I really wish I had the time and inclination to use the Blog to mount some sort of anti-Commonwealth Games (I prefer Commonwealth Shames) campaign. The lies and waste of time and money surrounding this insane event, which only serves to pay for a few folk who stand to gain some career publicity to run around for a few days is incomprehensible.

There is also some insanity referred to as ‘Lasting Legacy’, supposedly set to bring pots of cash into Glasgow after the event, but I invite readers to read reports written 10-20 years after similar events and claims – IT DOESN’T HAPPEN!

History tells us this in the shape of abandoned and derelict stadium sites around the world, and financial windfalls that never… fell.

The ‘Lasting Legacy’ is nothing more than a dream of the promoters, a fantasy, and is a carrot on a stick, held out to convince investors to part with their cash to finance the games money-pit.

We’ve already seen the Commonwealth Games chief breaking the rules and leaving his post in disgrace:

BBC News – Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games chief John Scott quits

Glasgow Commonwealth Games chief resigns after breaking gift rules | Glasgow and West | STV News

Only thing that comes to my mind about this single resignation is the warning that “Where there’s one mouse, there’s usually more“.

Now we have allegations of millions being paid out by Glasgow City Council for land which was purchased not all that long before it was known that it would need to be purchased for games’ use, or could have been acquired for significantly less if compulsory purchase powers has been exercised:

Multi-million pound land deals linked to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow are to be looked at by police.

The move follows a complaint by SNP MSP James Dornan, who represents the city’s Cathcart constituency.

He wants to establish whether public money was misused in some deals.

In one case a property developer was paid £17m for land which cost him £8m. Another saw former Rangers owner David Murray’s company paid £5.1m for land it bought for £375,000 a few years before.

Via: – BBC News – Police asked to probe Commonwealth Games land deals.

I wonder what else will come to light before we get to 2014?