"The reason why Blackpool has to pay out gets to the heart of the delusion behind New Labour's thinking. It's not the scale of the poverty that puts the casino operators off the town, but that Blackpool's poverty is not great enough. ... Blackpool, like most seaside towns, is too far from the big centres of population to provide enough poor, addicted, desperate or foolish gamblers to allow the casinos to operate seven days a week, 52 weeks a year."
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See Regional casino for the UK-related term "super casino". The proposals for a "super casinos" was scrapped in February 2008 under the new government of Gordon Brown; the Blackpool bid had been rejected in favour of Manchester. The Manchester project itself had been blocked under a House of Lords gambling order vote in March 2007.
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