Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Dome was built with LOttery money. It made no > money during the embarrassing Millenium fiasco and > was sold on, for a pittance, to O2. While > therefore, in theory, there was no cost to the > taxpayer the Lottery was always meant to be for > "good causes" not political white elephants - > there has thus been an opportunity cost to > taxpayers of ?750m worth of real good causes that > weren't funded. > > I would agree that now however, the centre is a > fine concert and exhibition spot - tho' Dylan's > concert last Saturday was rather dire! As I said above, it's already made more than the ?750 million it cost back in tax revenue and will continue making tax revenue for us. I propose that it never was a 'fiasco', it just wasn't given enough time. It was obvious (to me) that it would eventually work (i.e. generate money). Why do people expect things to work IMMEDIATELY?!?