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By: Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » £50 million for the Black Country or let the cyclists freewheel to a win?

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:23:27 +0000

[...] goes all Black Country it’s Not S**t, despite this earlier post railing at regen [...]

By: dp

dp — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:44:22 +0000

Yeah. There are four good causes, each apparently worth £50M.

I’m not sure that £12.5M would do each of them much good, but it would be more than a lot of worthy projects get. But the fact that this is a very public £50M purse means that it’s going to be much more difficult for the funders to change their minds in a year, and this is possibly why holding a TV vote is better than asking the experts. The political masters will be unable to play a shell game with the award.

By: Vote Black Country - it’s not often I say that | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:34:28 +0000

[...] a disclaimer, I don’t like the idea that such important work should be hijacked for publicity purposes (or left to chance by phone [...]

By: How do you get people to vote online? | jon bounds

How do you get people to vote online? | jon bounds — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:25:09 +0000

[...] is that there’s an online and telephone vote, and one of four projects gets all the dosh – I’ve mentioned that I don’t much like the system, but if it has to be this way I think the Black Country [...]