Swansea has Europes largest indoor film studio with 265,000 sq.ft of stage, and the company that owns it has expressed it's desire to expand further to attract bigger productions from Hollywood. In its short existence it is already successful having secured filming for American shows Da Vinci's Demons and Atlantis. So in the call for expansion to produce content bigger than the £60,000,000 TV Shows what does the Welsh Government do? It allocates £30,000,000 so Cardiff gets a film studio, talk about being short sited... Literally!! Our money will make a new studio just HALF the size of Bay Studios, but that money would further strengthened Bay Studios claim to being the biggest and best film studio in all of Europe. Well done Welsh Government, they just couldn't see the bigger picture and let Cardiff miss out. What a waste of money, what a waste of an opportunity and what a waste of space! What the hell is 180,000 sq.ft going to do to compete with Bay Studios that has 265,000 sq.ft but wanted to double in size?!?! That £30,000,000 would have gone a long way on an already established site! The corruption is beyond belief! I feel no affinity for Cardiff as a capital city and feel less Wales, more Swansea everyday!
Amen to that. I even remember my old man (Haford born 1912) being vehemently anti Welsh to the point where he would physically fight people who called him Welsh. He was Swansea (and a decent fighter to be fair). Also had a particular dislike and distrust of anything Cardiff.
Cardiff is very much Anglicized, and it's the reason behind most decisions that go their way, but the tide is definitely turning, most of the old folk throughout Wales now this!................
Another example of how centralised and narrow minded the Assembly is , they've succeeded in marginalising the rest of Wales and will continue to do so with no thought of the rest of us .There was another announcement of them spending ? billion pounds on a metro system to link cardiff with all of S East Wales and the Valleys The rail electrification project was to stop at Cardiff is another example of many which shows the contempt they have , it would appear rest of us can sink or swim .
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21838520 "If I was king,I would go from Swansea to Newport and I'd circle and include the valleys. I'd say that was Cardiff",so says Sir Terry Matthews,billionaire businessman,who comes from Newport. Newport staged the Ryder Cup in 2010,and Cardiff were advertising it as taking place in Cardiff. Moves are afoot to name the coastline from Cardiff to Southerndown as - "The Cardiff Riviera". Should that come to fruition,what price a move to include The Gower as well. Snooker's Welsh Open tournament,which is held annually in Newport,moves to Cardiff next year. "The rape of the fair country" continues unabated.
Why I hate everything Cardiff, not mainly to do with the football. It's the way the assembly show contempt for the rest of Wales, and the rest of Wales can bugger off, and scavenge for scraps off the assembly table.
The welsh assembly is so expensive to run that they cant afford to improve anything outside the cardiff borough. It is the Biggest most expensive white elephant we have in wales and don't do anything that the old welsh office could do. To me because the vote to have the assembly was so close at the time then we should have had an opportunity after a number of years to have a referendum to vote again and i bet you the No vote would be overwhelming....Its a shame we are stuck with it now unless the welsh people start to wise up and do something...
I'll remind you Dai. we won the 1st vote 53 % for with 47% against with carduff voting 44.4 % yes and 55.6 % against then there was the infamous recount even though we had the infrustructure in place at very little addition cost ( the old Guildhall ) but someone told them the benefits to themselves would far out weigh any negatives they perceived so it went to cardiff, at great expense to the rest of Wales .The system I'm afraid is stacked against anyone outside the 25 mile of utopia and thats the way it'll remain
Remember the documentary about the assembly, when Peter Haine made that pathetic decision to award the assembly to Cardiff. I think they could have had the Guildhall for around 1m or just a tad over.Now I don't know what the cost of the assembly building was, I'm sure it was over 20m. What does that say for using logic. The Welsh Assembly, another reason why I don't miss living in Wales.
