please empty your brain below
Big sums big bucks. £ 20 of my council tax for next 100 years to pay for our 2 gold medals seems fair.

strandman | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 8:56 a.m. | #

And that's before we start on what the World Cup will cost...

Blue Witch | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 9:07 a.m. | #

The Olympics will be fantastic and so will the World Cup (if we get it). I don't understand people who carp about the cost. It'll be great for London and most people will have a brilliant time. Relax and enjoy the build up, as long as we don't do another Wembley it's going to be an exciting time for Londoners.

Johnny Topaz | 17.11.06 - 9:26 a.m. | #

"Relax and enjoy the build up, as long as we don't do another Wembley it's going to be an exciting time for Londoners."

There's the rub, eh?!

"Long-term regeneration benefits to some of Britain's poorest boroughs."
Like the Dome and North Greenwich?
Hmmmm...
Does this kind of centrally planned top-down "regeneration" really work?
Better the Docklands example...offer an attractive set of incentives but let the market decide what to do. Don't let anyone like Livingstone decide what to do.

Chris | 17.11.06 - 9:49 a.m. | #

Eloquent as ever dg.

The Girl | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 10:49 a.m. | #

FAO MR MRS LONDON: URGENT

or you kind attention.

My name is LORD SEBASTIAN COE, chief International executeve of the London Team GB Olympics 2012 Bid, and I am writing to you to help regarding important matters of business that I hope may be of advantageous benefit to the both of us mutually.

Our organisation has become into money to the sum of (£) POUNDS TWO POINT FOUR BILLION (2.4bn £) for the purpses of holding a great Game in the city of Londons at supreme direction of famous IOC LTD.

(more)

quin | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Yay. Glad to hear that more money will be poured into London. Maybe that'll stop certain people moaning about how 'they' pay for everything else.

(ok, so they may have a small point but it's a really boring one).

I'm really so glad this will benefit London and Londoners.

Gordon | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 2:25 p.m. | #

I do hope we're in for a DG Olympic special treat when your counter reaches:

'2012 days until 2012 Olympics'

geofftech | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 3:24 p.m. | #

Please can we have a large statue of Tony Blair. I want to do that pulling-it-down-and-hitting-it-with-my-shoe thing they did in Baghdad!

Mark | 17.11.06 - 4:58 p.m. | #

Perhaps we could somehow pay for the olympic by a special tax on gargantuan city bonuses?

Obviously we wouldn't want those bankers most in need to pay.. so how about only taxing bonuses over 100k? That way noone need starve.

Randomaniac | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 5:42 p.m. | #

It would be funny if it wasnt so true.

Debster | 17.11.06 - 6:08 p.m. | #

You can scratch the 27p for the box of matches. The whole point of the olympic flame is that it never goes out.
There, so it's not so pricey after all

disgruntled commuter | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 7:35 p.m. | #

Well done DG - your budget is as close to reality as anyone else's it's all fag packet stuff.

Noosa Lee | Homepage | 17.11.06 - 7:42 p.m. | #

Re: the last point - I'd love to see where all this regeneration money is going. Okay, there is a nice new leisure centre in Mile End, but surely we deserved that without the Olympics?

I work in Bromley by Bow and can see lots of flash new investment opportunity flats going up in a hurry, but the community cafe (the ONLY cafe in the area, at the Bromley-By-Bow Centre) has closed down due to mismanagement of funds. There is now nowhere in the High Street for the locals just to get a cup of tea - the only option for sitting down and socialising now being a pub, great for a mainly Muslim community, hey...

annie | Homepage | 18.11.06 - 10:34 a.m. | #

Yes, I know the Bromley-by-Bow Centre - it's a wonderful place and it's where I go to see the doctor. I'm as disappointed as you that the Pie in the Sky cafe has closed down. But 3 of the 4 pubs in the High Street have also shut (the Moulder's Arms closed last year, and the Rose & Crown was boarded up just last month).

As for regeneration money, there was an artistic 'event' down at Three Mills on Tuesday evening to celebrate plans to build bridges over the river Lea to bring local communities together, but it was woefully unattended.

Regeneration's a long way off yet.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.06 - 3:14 p.m. | #

The EU is not responsible for the "unexpected VAT bill." This is an excuse being peddled by people who don't have their ducks in a row. Tessa Jowell comes to mind for some reason.

Bill | 20.11.06 - 10:44 p.m. | #

Tres drole. Enjoyed round my way.

Balf | Homepage | 28.11.06 - 8:37 p.m. | #











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