PAC: WHITE ELEPHANT

The Nelson City council is so blindly pre-determined, to push on with that colossal white elephant of a performing arts centre, that it is convieniently turning Nelson's blind eye to the economic realities of this huge financial albatross in the making.
It is now obvious that every event that this council has promoted or run or sponsored or otherwise had anything to do with over recent times, has been an outright financial disaster, with each loss costing ratepayers considerable sums.
Even privately run promotions and events are also facing that very dilemma and are similarly going down the financial gurgler.
Those very statistics would seem to be the ominously loud and strident clamour of alarm bells ringing out a very pointed warning that Nelson does not have any capacity whatsoever to support this Alice in wonderland fantasy of a PAC.
Clearly the message that those alarm bells are warning us of, is that this region does not have any form of a suitable base to support these arty farty shows and events.
Nelson plainly does not have the economic base to support it, nor does it have a sufficiently large interest base, to make these events viable economic starters.
All polling to date indicates that the supporters of this excessive fantasy are very much a vocal minority, who it can now be seen, are obviously not prepared to put their money where their mouths are.
If there is no appetite or support, financial or otherwise, for these events, then it is eminently clear that the PAC's loudly trumpeted justification of economic salvation for Nelson is a sham and a totally flawed nonsense.
If this gargantuan white elephant proceeds in the face of this obvious lack of support, it will become another massive albatross around the neck of Nelson's long suffering ratepayers.