>"Judith" <
jmsmi...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:hdr4l9t2fp28aaajf...@4ax.com...
>>
>> I have heard that the local authorities (ie the ratepayers) in Yorkshire
>> are
>> contributing �11 Million to the costs of this event.
>>
>> I wonder if they all know - and agree with this very large amount of money
>> being spent in this way?
>>
>... But what is the leverage ratio of that alleged �11m? How much "other
>money" is brought in to the local economy that wouldn't otherwise be there,
>and how much of the alleged �11m would have been spent anyway?
I agree that local businesses - hotels and shops etc - may benefit. But I
really cannot see what the benefit is to the (non-business) rate payers.
I guess that there is no benefit - or people would be coming out with it here.
I also wonder if the rate-payers are really aware of the costs they are to
bear.