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Sunday, May 28, 2006 

No prizes for guessing where one Super Casino will end up

The role reversal of our two main political parties becomes ever more pronounced. In the week that the Conservative leader talked of the need to engender a sense of well-being that money alone could not provide, the Government pressed on with its plans for a raft of new casinos.

In the parts of Glasgow where life expectancy is now below that of Bosnia, and shrinking, the knowledge that the city is on the short list for a Super Casino will, no doubt, have done wonders for morale. The prospect of playing host to a vast, glitzy gaming palace, complete with 1,250 greedy slot machines, must have occasioned general rejoicing in the less well-off quarters of Newcastle, Manchester and Blackpool.

Eight contenders have been given the chance to win what may be the country's one and only Super Casino licence. What odds would you give on it being none of the above but the Millennium Dome that turns out to be the winner?