Private operator pulls out of Sea City Museum (From Daily Echo)

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  Lone Ranger. wrote:
  

  MGRA wrote:

  southy wrote:

  MGRA wrote:

  sotonbusdriver wrote: I can see this coming back and biting the local tax payers in the backside. It's going to be the usual Council flop and last of money. No Company with any sense in this financial climate is going to commit to spending money on a whim of a Council. Like most projects that the woolly headed Council come up with this again is looking to be a big flop. Although it may have an interest in 2012 as the 100th anniversary of the disaster of Titanic it will not have a long term interest..

  you don't see the commercial hook in here... there are plenty of companies that would sponsor the museum when the time is right... just not now. This museum was planned years ago so SCC are just reacting to the reality on the ground. It won't be a flop. Since cruise turn around offers a gift-wrapped potential for customers... although it does seem a strange prospect for a cruise passenger,,, to see evidence of a sunken liner !?!?

  Well your going to have a long wait, the economy is slipping down again, its going to be a good 10 years just to get back on the same level of 2 years ago.

  southy. the economy is not "slipping down" again, we are experiencing sluggish growth, so once more you are incorrect.

  Back from the dizzy heights of 0.5% to 0.2%. . That looks like slipping back. . Bit there again i was never too good at spin

  For once (and yes, only once), I AGREE WITH SOUTHY!
  
  I work in financial services, and I think we are slipping back, and will be lucky to get out of this hole, inside ten years.
  
  Now, where I disagree, is that there is a market for both Belfast (which is fast slipping back to the bad old days, but the spin doctors are hiding it well), and our project. The problem is that we are hopeless at publicity! The launch of the clipper race being a great example of not getting the message across.... A free night out, at Ocean Village, watching top bands, and only a couple of thousand turn out for it, because there was no publicity. I only found out about it, because I read a bit of shipping news on here!"
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