Will we regret giving up Booker prize? (From This Is Local London)

If it was a prize it must have been a booby prize. (Just right for Colin Baker.)

"A new sports facility that could provide a sustainable stadium share for the Wycombe Wanderers and Wasps enabling the future stability of both clubs at the same time as offering modern facilities for the use of the whole community "
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CLEARLY, you have not read any of the facts associated with the scheme Baker!!
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There has never been anything wrong in risk-taking as long as its with your money or what a Bank agrees to lend you. Councils have no mandate to take risks and are not qualfied to undertake such risk at any rate.!
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This is such a STUPID piece of writing – simply rehearsing the discredited arguments used by the minority of local people who supported the Hayes Stadium and housing development. It was entirely predictable that a person who writes the stuff Baker usually writes and defines himself partly by telling us he is a season ticket holding WWFC supporter would write such stuff.
‘I may be in a vilified minority of those who have been vociferous on the subject,’ – you deserve to be vilified if you are vociferous.
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‘I thought it was an exciting project worth exploring for its potential ultimate benefit to the community at large and not just the football club of which I am a season ticket’ - it WAS explored and found to have no genuine ultimate benefits.
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‘I live near enough to have been moderately affected by the development, but took the view that it would be a huge asset to future generations.’ – do explain why you were in the small minority of people who took that view
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‘I hope that the decision of the new WDC cabinet will not be the source of community regret a decade from now.’ It must have been in the minds of the four councillors who panned the scheme that it was HIGHLY unlikely to succeed and when they had consumed large quantities of green belt and ratepayers’ money and it had failed they would be called Hayes’ whores and vilified for their part in it in ten years time.
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‘A new sports facility that could provide a sustainable stadium share for the Wycombe Wanderers and Wasps enabling the future stability of both clubs at the same time as offering modern facilities for the use of the whole community seems to me a laudable dream for a football club owner to have.’ – that wasn’t going to happen but it is a laudable daydream as you say.
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‘And when did the notion of a risk-taking entrepreneur making a profit become a justifiable subject for abuse? Characterising those who have the entrepreneurial skills and drive to bring exciting projects to fruition as merely money grabbing opportunists is too easy and usually, I would suggest, simply wrong.’ If you are talking about the planned stadium being ‘brought to fruition’ rather than Mr Hayes’ previous entrepreneurial successes, then I would say that you are ‘simply wrong’ – if they couldn’t fill Adams Park then the new stadium would have been a loss making failure as well and he would be taking a risk with our money more than his own. (I am one of the 23% of people locally who pay Council Tax and who would have been compelled to watch it being inevitably and predictably lost.)
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This is such a STUPID piece of writing.