I was supportive when we got the Olympics and viewed it as largely a good thing but the reality has turned out far from that. I heard it described the other day 'as a multi-billion pound tax payer funded advertising campaign for some of the world's worst companies' and I couldn't agree more.
I can see valid reasons for red13pjb's feeling of optimism and I do hope their does turn out to be a tangible legacy after these games but we are currently as far from the original Olympic ideals as it is possible to be. The people of East London in particular have been viewed as an unfortunate inconvenience by the IOC and the organising committee.
The 2012 Olympics is a perfect example of how New Labour operated. Always trying to tackle the major problems we as a society face with headline-grabbing eye-catching expensive initiatives that attempt to mask the issue while doing very little to tackle the root cause of it. Pev, if you are annoyed at money being chucked at the Olympics that should be keeping teachers in a job then blame the New Labour government that backed the bid.
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i do have independant thought and i was against the Olympic bid from day one, mainly because of the lack of support the manchester bids got then Manchester were awarded the Commonwealth games and what happens the London bid team nick manchester's ideas and with Tory Tony Blair supporting it put in a bid for the Olympics. the original cost was about £2.6b still way to much to put on a games festival for amateur athletes. Now it is costing £9.6b and an extra £60m found for security at the games, similar to the £60m taken from Salford council by the current government policies. We are now seeing dodgy property deals where the olympic village as been bought for half its market value, surely these flats would have been ideal as new social/council housing but no they are going into the private rental sector. Another 80,000+ stadium in London that will not be used after the games wasting £600m, Wembley should have been built with a running track so killing two birds with one stone and saving millions.
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