Public being conned (From Warrington Guardian)

Public being conned

AM I the only reader of this newspaper to be totally bored by all the hyperbole and palaver surrounding the proposed millennium celebrations?

Once again a gullible public is being conned into parting with its hard-earned cash.

It's all right for the super-rich, who will no doubt push the boat out at the most expensive hotels in the land, but for the vast majority of ordinary working folk the same problems will still be there the next day.

I have already heard it rumoured that even public houses in this town are going to charge fantastic admission prices to their premises. As usual the regular customer is going to bear the brunt of it all.

As for that huge upturned wok at Greenwich, the less said the better. A monumental and disgraceful waste of money.

By all means celebrate the birth of Christ, even though many people doubt what date the actual event occurred, but let's keep things in perspective.

School children should be given some momentum and the town could remember the anniversary which hopefully will be supported, but I think the vast majority of the country will be totally apathetic.

I hope I am proved wrong, but all I foresee is an excuse for a monumental booze-up with shop windows smashed throughout the nation, leading to more ugly, metal-shuttered frontages.

Interested of Over.

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