S.Park...
The new super casino will mean more gamblers in Manchester. The debt mountain isn't there because of the casinoes I agree, but casinoes, and specifically a super casino, will make it that much worse. Yes, it will make it worse no matter what you think. People may well like to use the various facilities there, but people will still use the casino for its primary function which is, y'know, gambling their money away.
Alan... It might well be there choice, but I think that government has a duty to protect society's vulnerable. And their comes a point where the government has to curtail freedoms to a certain extent for the protection of those to whom the freedom would be damaging.