Hardly a waste given most Games make a profit off of the increased levels of tourism and given the amount of regeneration funding that's gone into East London...

 

Sorry, but I have to totally disagree with this.. The Olympics will do nothing but benefit a very small amount of very big Corporations, it will NOT benefit the ordinary Londoner. It really makes me laugh when you see these bast*rds who call themselves "Olympic Sponsors", yeah, right, the biggest "sponsors" were the bloody tax-payers of London.... Corporate execs and politicians get free tickets, where are our free tickets....? <_<

 

Secondly, you have to look into how land and property was procured for this, it was done very unfairly and lot of local businesses in the Stratford area were destroyed, those that are left will almost certainly be destroyed by the Westfields monstrosity next to Stratford Station, just as the other Westfields has decimated local traders in Shepherds Bush Market, not to mention the potentially illegal evictions of tenants around the area of the site so landlords can make more money off of yuppies and tourists... <_<

 

Going back to the "sponsors" as well, you've got people like ATOS ffs (surely some kind of sick joke, right, what with the Paralympics and everything) and Dow Chemicals (you know, the guys who created napalm and agent orange, and their subsidiary Union Carbide was responsible for the Bhopal disaster) being part of it....

 

The Olympics to me are an utter white elephant, we wont gain out of it in the long-run... I curse Ken for saddling us with a huge bill of over £10 bn for it, and I see very few benefits.. If you wanna improve transport infrastructure, then improve transport infrastructure, why does it need to be done on the back of something like this...?

 

Boris/Ken, both utter w*n**rs as I see it, I voted Jenny Jones, with Brian Paddick as my second choice... Yeah, Paddick is a Lib Dem, but he's a good man in a bad party and if he'd been running as an Independent, he probably would have been my first pick...

Glad we seem to fully agree on something Scott. That's quite a rare event. The Olympics are a total white elephant and waste of money. I wish with all my heart that Paris had got them and have been called un-patriotic because of my views. Don't care. I wouldn't go if you paid me a grand to go. Have you seen what they're going to charge for food and drink? Astronomical prices!

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LMAO. Ken doesn't have a rightful place there. He has to hope Boris invites him there. His time is over thank God.

 

BORIS FOR NEXT PM.

Tax evasion is illegal. There is no evidence that Ken Livingstone has done anything illegal so perhaps you would like to withdraw your potentially libellous comment.

 

Have you managed to think of anything positive Johnson has done for London yet? You've had long enough since you were last asked. If he ever became PM he would make even Cameron appear competent.

Name-calling really shows your maturity and ability to debate a subject doesn't it? :rolleyes: I left name-calling in the playground!!

Erm, maybe you'd better go back and look at what you said about Ken Livingstone.

Tax evasion is illegal. There is no evidence that Ken Livingstone has done anything illegal so perhaps you would like to withdraw your potentially libellous comment.

 

Have you managed to think of anything positive Johnson has done for London yet? You've had long enough since you were last asked. If he ever became PM he would make even Cameron appear competent.

 

1. DONE. Could you also edit where you've quoted me. Thanks.

 

2. I'm not really interested in what he's done for London though. We both voted for him on personality as we like the man, the loveable buffoon as people call him. He's funny and very likeable.

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1. DONE. Could you also edit where you've quoted me. Thanks.

 

2. I'm not really interested in what he's done for London though. We both voted for him on personality as we like the man, the loveable buffoon as people call him. He's funny and very likeable.

 

Do you understand the concept of voting?

Yes, because personality makes for fantastic governance :manson:

... the loveable buffoon as people call him. He's funny and very likeable.

 

He's a buffoon but he isn't funny and he isn't likeable.

 

Kath

2. I'm not really interested in what he's done for London though. We both voted for him on personality as we like the man, the loveable buffoon as people call him. He's funny and very likeable.

 

I wonder sometimes if idiots like you should even be allowed to vote....

 

TBH, I doubt you even bothered. You seem more likely to be one of the 62% who couldn't care less....

I wonder sometimes if idiots like you should even be allowed to vote....

 

TBH, I doubt you even bothered. You seem more likely to be one of the 62% who couldn't care less....

It just comes as a relief that he lives in one of the safest labour seats in the country so his vote in a general election is worthless. That said, it illustrates why our electoral system is so bad. Elections are decided by relatively few voters in a limited number of constituencies. Those swing voters can make their decision for a whole host of reasons from their policies to the colour of their shirt or the quality of their jokes.

When it comes to the Olympics I wish the government would stop trying to convince people that this is a British olympics. It's really not. Nobody outside of london is going to see any benefit, especially as far north as I am. The commonwealth games will be far more beneficial to Scotland as a whole than the Olympics will be to every single person in this country that doesn't live in the city of London.

When it comes to the Olympics I wish the government would stop trying to convince people that this is a British olympics. It's really not. Nobody outside of london is going to see any benefit, especially as far north as I am. The commonwealth games will be far more beneficial to Scotland as a whole than the Olympics will be to every single person in this country that doesn't live in the city of London.

 

To be perfectly frank, the Olympics wont "benefit" really anyone in London that much either... It'll certainly be a big benefit to McDonalds, Coca Cola, etc, etc.... -_-

To be perfectly frank, the Olympics wont "benefit" really anyone in London that much either... It'll certainly be a big benefit to McDonalds, Coca Cola, etc, etc.... -_-

 

And everyone who gets to see the world's best sport on their doorstep?

And everyone who gets to see the world's best sport on their doorstep?

 

Yeah, for two weeks, then what...? The Olympic stadium gets sold to a f***ing football club.... Or, worse, yet sold to Lord Sugar, demolished, THEN built into a new stadium for bloody Spurs..... -_-

 

I really think people outside London are actually pretty clueless as to what's going on here tbh....

Yeah, for two weeks, then what...? The Olympic stadium gets sold to a f***ing football club.... Or, worse, yet sold to Lord Sugar, demolished, THEN built into a new stadium for bloody Spurs..... -_-

 

I really think people outside London are actually pretty clueless as to what's going on here tbh....

 

I'll take that wonderful compliment on board, thanks.

 

It might be a little difficult for them to demolish the stadium given the 2017 World Athletics Championships is being held there. Might be a bit of a shit competition if there's no running track...

I'll take that wonderful compliment on board, thanks.

 

It might be a little difficult for them to demolish the stadium given the 2017 World Athletics Championships is being held there. Might be a bit of a shit competition if there's no running track...

 

And, what would stop them from just shifting it to Gateshead....?

And, what would stop them from just shifting it to Gateshead....?

 

The fact that we won the bid because of the stadium? It would be a complete joke.

The World Championships has to take place in that venue and they actually aren't going to be selling it. It's going to remain in public ownership with it being leased to an 'anchor tenant'.

 

 

Also on the Olympic park is probably the best velodrome in the country. The new aquatics centre gives London a proper venue for a long time for Diving/Swimming. Crystal Palace just isn't good enough to hold national championships never mind something on an international stage. The national championships for Swimming are held in Sheffield because the facilities are just so poor in the capital! Ponds Forge is just a sublime pool and exceedingly well located in Sheffield city centre. (Scotland holds our nationals in Glasgow as the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh was not a full Olympic size pool when the timing pads were put in as only one set were used when it was built rather than the two we need now to obtain Level 1 and 2 accreditation.)

 

 

The permanent facilities are some that are very very very needed for this country. Aquatics is a set of sports that has been deeply neglected in this country and the lasting legacy in the Olympics and then the Commonwealths up here will be two world class pools. Well, Tollcross was bloody good before they closed it to add a second 50m pool for warm up/swim down that will really make it superb.