Adam Price’s Blog | The Blog of Adam Price AS/MP, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr

Adam Price’s Blog | The Blog of Adam Price AS/MP, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr: "Hands Off The Lottery

We vote this afternoon on whether to hand over another massive chunk of Lottery money to plug the Government’s shortfall in its Olympics funding package. The Alliance of local authorities in traditional industrial areas has forecast this means that Carmarthenshire alone will lose £6.5 million as a result of the Olympics lottery raid. Plaid will be definitely voting against (along with the SNP) . Will other Welsh MPs put Wales first? It remains to be seen. It cannot be right that the most disadvantaged communities in Britain - places like the Amman Valley - should be penalised because of the Government’s dodgy accounting."