Thread: © The Olympic™ farce will cost us all...

Those resident in the UK anyway...

So London's got the 2012 Olympics. *whoopee*

And when all the establishment gravy trainers out in Singapore stop celebrating, then they'll turn their attention on how they're going to waste vast amounts of OUR money to organise the games which will last a fortnight and leave us with a lot of debt.

I hope the G8, when it meets in 2013, will write off THAT debt but I doubt it. In the meantime the Blairs, Beckhams, Coe's, Redgrave's, Holmes's, Princess Anne's and all the enormous cast of hangers-on and wastrels, not to mention the vast army of media parasites, can look forward to years of lunching out at our expense.

And of course let's not forget the army of unemployable British athletes who over the next 7 years will get vast amounts of lottery funding to train just in time to pick up mysterious injuries just prior to the games to explain their inevitable failures.

The fact that all this money is going to be spent at the precise moment we're wrestling with the world poverty issue is an obscenity.

What a waste of time and money - but the Roman pricipal of 'bread and circuses' for the masses, taking their minds off the real domestic issues, holds just as good today as it did then.

Another f***in' rip-off. There I fell better for that!

Stop whining Harry and start writing that proposal for a grant.

There must be a sport that the poms are really shite at (stop larfing you lot!!) So set yourself up as the new coach, manager, sports psychologist etc.

Eddie the Eagle Sports Motivation clinic.

You could clean up!!

We've already built one Olympic size swimming pool, Poolie... Yep, it's two inches too short cos they forget to include the thickness of the tiles lining the pool when measuring the 50 metre length. It could happen to anyone I guess.

Then there are the plans to rename 'Waterloo' railroad station 'Agincourt' for the duration of the games and have lots of Welshmen flicking their bow fingers at the Frenchies as they arrive.

Special Offer, just in from Paris...

Baseball axed from 2012 Olympics, *shakes fist* that will show those Americans...

The Brits. have just announced that Bog Snorkelling is to be considered as an Olympic sport in 2012. That'll be a gold medal guarantee for us then.

I'd rather then money went to hosting the Olympics than wasting it on Africa.

*waves tiny union jack*

Originally Posted by Harry

What a waste of time and money - but the Roman pricipal of 'bread and circuses' for the masses, taking their minds off the real domestic issues, holds just as good today as it did then.

Isn't that the whole the point. People don't want to spend all day thinking about the myriad of real domestic issues. They want stuff like sport to take their minds off these things, to unite the population, and give them hope. If we can manage to win an event or two as well then we'll have something to collectively feel good about and a reason for everyone in the country to be proud to be British (Something we could do with right now given it was British Muslims that just bombed London).

I can't be bothered to look up the numbers but I reckon it'll only cost each tax payer a few quid and personally I'd much prefer to see lottery money spent on that than a new lesbian assylum seekers support group or some bollocks like that.

Originally Posted by Richey James

I can't be bothered to look up the numbers but I reckon it'll only cost each tax payer a few quid and personally I'd much prefer to see lottery money spent on that than a new lesbian assylum seekers support group or some bollocks like that.

I'm not sure of the figures either Richey, but the Mayor of my fair city is planning to raise Londoners council tax bills by between 5% & 10% for a number of years to come, to help fund this farce. By my reckoning that's more than a just few quid out of my pocket.

Oh, I hadn't heard about this 5 - 10% council tax raise for years to come to fund it business. Is this raise just for the olympics or might we get a half-way reliable tube service or anything else out of it as well?

Me, I'm all for it at the moment but if it develops in the same way as the new Wembley stadium or the tortuous saga that was the dome then I may well start to think differently.

Originally Posted by Richey James

Oh, I hadn't heard about this 5 - 10% council tax raise for years to come to fund it business. Is this raise just for the olympics or might we get a half-way reliable tube service or anything else out of it as well?

The first £2.05 billion of the funding package will be met from up to £1.5 billion equally from the National new Olympic Lottery, plus up to £550 million from London Council Tax. This equates to a £20 a year increase on Band D council tax which would start in 2006-07 after we know whether we will host the Games.

Worryingly, it doesn't say when the rise in council tax will cease.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/sport/lond...lympic_bid.htm

Cheer up Harry. The widely expected housing boom should offset the 20 quid rise in council tax.