UK super casino delayed once again

April 11, 2007

In online gambling news toady, we must report that in Manchester, England – yet another hurdle will have be to cleared in order to complete the long waited super casino to finish.

After reading the Manchester Evening News, our online gambling news department ahs learned that no progress will be made on Manchester's super casino bid until at least May. This is according to UK government.

In the UK, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that it would be unfeasible to try to break a stand off between the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the issue regarding the super casino until after the local elections on May 3. You just have to love politics. Politics..politics…politics.

Additionally we read that A DCMS spokeswoman told the M.E.N. that because Parliament was on an Easter break until the middle April - combined with the start of purdah ahead of May 3 that any progress in the super casino matter was unattainable.

The city of Manchester was chosen as the site of Britain's first super casino, with more than 1,000 unlimited jackpot slot machines, by an autonomous panel earlier in 2007 after much debate and time consuming issues at hand. But while the Commons OK’d the pitch, it was voted down by a majority of just 3 in the Lords back in March. Both Houses must come to an agreement before the casino, which could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to Sportcity, can proceed.

After all these delays, we wonder how long the lure of these 3,000 will sustain. The community where the location was approved is in need of a boost to its economy – we just wonder when this boost will ever take place. Sportcity waits.

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