Another "don't get me wrong" post. I never supported the idea of a super-casino. Gambling is an idiotic pastime that only mugs play. And it was always a cruel idea to introduce a super-casino and lots of large casinos elsewhere, given what it was likely to do to poverty and deprivation. Gordon Brown deserves a tiny bit of credit for stopping the super-casino in its tracks.

However he also deserves our complete, undistracted derision for dithering for months before doing so. In doing so, this cost many local councils hundreds of thousands of pounds that they had spent preparing for the bid. He even voted in favour of the super-casino in the Commons. Fail.

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