The government is treating Liverpool's Capital of Culture as some provincial village fete.
Evidence is provided not only by the snub to any further central funding - that's all beingheld back for the 2012 Olympics - but by the refusal to stump up the extra £10m needed to police the 08 calendar.
Hundreds of thousands more people are expected as tourists. All the chief constable is asking for is money to provide 200 extra cops.
Are we meant to wait for a disaster to happen and then examine the cash flow in the Whitehall accounts.
For rest assured, the government will not consider itself responsible for any Capital of Culture disaster, nat ural or otherwise.
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