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Belfast
News: Whose Stocking Are We Filling?
Hooray
Christmas is Coming and may we start this
article by wishing all our users a very
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year in
2011.
Every
year, ever single council in the land
prepares a special day for the switching
on of the Christmas Lights, in Belfast
that night has come. The Belfast Christmas
lights were switched on tonight, followed
by the opening of the Continental Market
in the grounds of the City Hall.
Most
people across Northern Ireland hold
Christmas dear, why, because they love
Christmas for all the good feelings it
gives them, it provide a time for
Christian reflection at the Birth of
Jesus, it enables us to set aside troubles
of the past and for many its a time for
family and for looking forward into a new
year.
Each
year thousands flock into Belfast for the
annual switching on of the Christmas
Lights, the event is talked about on
television news, radio news, local
newspapers, talk shows and is published on
the Belfast City Council website (as well
as other free sites including here at
Simply Belfast).
So why,
did Belfast City Council burden its rate
payers with the expense of
advertising the event beyond the
free media options mentioned above. Why
pay for special advertising, why plaster
the sides of buses, why waste the money?
Here at
Simply Belfast we are getting into the
festive mood and nothing will divert us
from enjoying Christmas as we always do,
but given Northern Ireland's financial
woes, voters will have to decide whether
they are prepared to elect new 'wasters'
or whether they are going to demand
financial wisdom and prudence come the
2011 Council & Northern Ireland
Assembly Elections.
Given
that this advertising cost us dearly and
achieved little, whose stockings did
Belfast City Council really fill this
year?
Last Updated:
20th November 2010
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