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Sending soldiers to their deaths in Afghanistan in a war that was not ours and one that we cannot win however, is a criminal. Add to that money wasted on the infinite government QUANGO's that do very little, MP's expenses, the Royal family and the Queens jubilee etc etc.
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Afghanistan and Iraq, in particular, were the two biggest foreign policy mistakes made by this country since appeasement and as you said wasted billion upon billion of pounds of taxpayer's money. MP's expenses are so miniscule in comparison to the cost of the games that there is no comparison. I agree about scrapping the Royal Family but the financial case for their abolition is far from made. However, like yourself, I don't have a problem with taxpayer's money funding the Olympics, my objection is more to do with what the modern Olympics has become. I will still be watching it though.