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[Joyce]

Maybe it's us Scots who are thinking this way. My nephew has put it on his FB page. He too is at a loss as to why they think it's good for the Games ceremony.

[honeybun]

I have not spoken to one single person who thinks this is a good idea. Perhaps it's because most Scots know that the Red Road flats are synonymous with poverty and crime and drug abuse. It's a notorious area and one that no one is proud of.

The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to showcase Glasgow and Scotland as a whole and not the time to draw attention to the slums in the sky.


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[Wombat]

I think I will have to see on the night.....

[CLKD]

You may not be in the UK by then  ......... and it shows that Scotland is ready to move on, to ditch it's hi-rises which were not such a good idea after all, whether the rest of the World will understand ...... of course, if they have watched Billy Connolly they will do 

[Wombat]

True....Billy Connoly could make anything entertaining, let's be honest the rest of the commonwealth may not understand the Scottish dialect anyway.....

 

[honeybun]

The games are before the referendum CLKD.

They may not understand the dialect but this needs no verbal description. Don't know what else is in the opening ceremony as yet but a lot of Scots don't like this idea at all.


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[bramble]

I agree the idea is a bit off the wall, but I suppose the idea is to show the regeneration of Scotland and the drive forward to a better future. I sometimes get a bit fed up of our tartan and shortbread image....
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[honeybun]

Common sense has prevailed and the powers that be have bowed to public pressure and have abandoned the stupid idea of demolishing the flats as part of the opening ceremony.

Thank goodness someone somewhere listened.


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[Limpy]

I thought of you when I heard about this.

Suspected you would be pleased.........   

[CLKD]

Read about it when I opened the paper this evening  - what next then?

[Wombat]

Are they still going to demolish them and redevelop the area ?

[Joyce]

Thankfully common sense has prevailed!

[honeybun]

Yes they will still demolish them at some point as they are empty and huge eyesore.


So glad they have had second thoughts about this. Maybe they read my moans and groans.

I actually signed my name on the online protest.

People power or what 


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[Wombat]

Triumph for the 'tartan army' 

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[Hattie]

They probably won't say beforehand now what else they have got lined up !

I wonder what my late father-in-law would have said about it - born in a poorer part of Glasgow in the early 1900's.
Paying for demolishing with some available ceremony money made some sense to me when often this type of money can be wasted leaving no 'legacy'.

The medals look stylish.