Mo, Jan 2, 2006The Guardian: Swimming pools should be a policy battleground
Swimming pools should be a policy battleground:
"This is the season of fresh resolutions, many of them adopted to deal with with bulging waistlines and that non-specific blobby feeling you may recognise after the Christmas break. Like many women I will be soon ploughing up and down a swimming pool. Like many parents I will also be watching children swim - my daughters in fact. Swimming is the single most popular sport for girls and the second most popular for boys.It is also a good test case for the government's wider commitment to sport..."
In this excellent article on today's Guardian Jackie Hashley reminds politicians that swimming pools are indeed important and that adequate policies are required to convince voters that there's any substance behind the huge hot air exercise that followed the successful Olympic bid.
In Lewisham the outgoing Mayor Steve Bullock thinks that the way forward is to insult the public's intelligence by declaring commitment to modernising leisure centres while closing the only swimming pool in central Lewisham leaving the best part of the borough without swimming pool for a number of years that is everyone's guess. ...read more...