Not wishing to sound pessimistic, (for a change), but what do you reckon are the chances that IF this goes ahead, we will attract 'real' businesses?
Express gifts was supposed to give us 'real' jobs got plenty of grants and runs on a skeleton permanent staff with temporary workers doing the bulk of the work ready to be laid off at a moments notice.
In fact the temp's got hit on the head so many times with the brown stuff, I believe the only way they can get staff is to import Poles and others that didn't make the grade as plumbers to fill these lucrative positions.
What's the chances that we end up attracting the very last of the cigarette makers to put a state of the art production line in and get it up and running the day before a surprise Government announcement that production of all tobacco products is made illegal.
Or perhaps a really large canning factory just as the do-gooders finally bully Supermarkets into banning the sales of all alcoholic products from their shelves.
I really do hope this isn't another 'pie in the sky', dreamsville idea and at last we get some decent companies, (Engineering would be nice, get a few apprenticeships going), I don't think I'll hold my breath though.
