Stood behind 'is barrer is cuddly Ken Liv, Mayor of London and all round loon.
“I’m not asking ten billion, or nine, not even 8. Seven is a loss, six is high, a mere five and a half is all I want. You luv, you want one? Ok my darlin’ that’s six billion, oh sorry, well it’ll be about six, and almost probably not over seven billion.”
So with a wave of his magic jellied eel Mr Mayor slashes nearly 3 billion off the cost. Yeah right.
So the final cost is somewhere between 2.4 billion and 9.3 billion. Ish.
I wouldn’t put this shower in charge of a school tuck shop!
While squaddies get paid £16,000 a year to be shot at and have to buy their own equipment. Plus when they get back they get a bill for community charges.
See, I was being good and not resurrecting my favourite thread… but last I read some bod’s had got together and pointed out that 9billion was still about right… if all the assumptions that have been made remain true between now and the whole thing kicking off. Which of course they won’t.
The money spent on this will be so much better spent on a zillion other things, if you really want to help sport then throw a few quid at school sports equipment or leisure centers and clubs, get it going through some grass roots action and give us some stars to get behind in a few years time. We don’t need to spend 10 billion (Peiges rough estimate atm) on a showpiece couple of weeks of telly that will make a whole load of building companies a packet and leave us with an empty “village” that know one quite knows what to do with afterword’s.
It it were about regeneration then put the land out to tender and let somebody build on it with the standard “you can have it for this but have to build these facilities also”. (arn’t we being told this week that the goverment wants so meny million houses over next few years, seems to me theres a nice chunk of land over there)
There is NO SENSE TO IT !!!
And no… I won’t be watching it on telly…
And no… I won’t change my mind when the time comes…
The Olympics should be held somewhere more central to the country, somewhere near a city that needs regeneration.
Somewhere with four airports on rail links.
Ladies and Genitals I propose Stoke-on-trent as the true Olympic venue.
With it being the last place in the UK to offer people a choice to smoke perhaps the Ho-Lympics could be sponsored by Benson&Hedges or Marlboro?
Makes almost as much sense as having Mcdonalds sponsoring sporting events
Maybe we need some more Olympic logos designed around good old Stoke.
Stoke, UK Olympic Freedom Foundation
Anyone make a logo out of that ?
It’s nice to see you have idiots in government as we yanks do. The man’s not a planning engineer, he has no idea what the effort will cost to do properly. And, in the end, you brits will do it properly.
you will spend 13 to 15 bln quid, not a shilling less
That’ll be closer to 12 Billion by the time its finished.
“we forgot to add the grease money for all the politicians that have fingers in the pie, and that building supplies company reccomended by two jags aint half expensive. Can we have another Billion ?”
Don’t forget the ten “Equality Comissioners” appointed now to ensure nobody loses @ £100k per year. 10 x 5 x £100k = £5mill before someone sparks the torch.
I believe their job is to ensure equality in all things across the board - so may as well chuck away the stopwatches and medals then that might save a coupla quid
