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I don't buy a daily paper, watch Sky TV, go to the pub or feed a dog..... probably just as well if I've got to pay for this!
But I will be grateful that my house price will rise more than £155 and I can profit out of that when I sell it before the 'lympics. 
NiC | Homepage | 16.03.07 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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How grateful DG? Can we all come round and watch from your place?
Anonymous | 16.03.07 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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And, of course, it's still less than the £10bn pissed away on fecked-up IT schemes for the NHS.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 16.03.07 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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I think that I heard on the Today programme that the first estimate was a guess, based mainly on the assumption that we wouldn't get it so it didn't much matter.
Got to bite the bullet and get on with it now anyway. How humiliating would it be to say we couldn't afford it and please will France take over after all. I can afford £155 over 5 years. Maybe they should set up a voluntary fund? Ask those who can to give £50 (to allow for those who can't/won't) a year (gift aided) for 5 years. Might bring in the extra.
z | Homepage | 16.03.07 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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Clearly an error from the boffins in the department of Olympic budgeting. These sporting thingamies make a profit these days - thanks to the wonders of sponsorship.
We can all sit back and look forward to an "Olympic dividend" as we get some money off our Council tax and a couple of free tickets to the water polo. Hoorah!
Walter | 16.03.07 - 1:14 p.m. | #
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Haha. All you Londoners have to pay for the Olympics- you can shove 'em
Fudgepacker | 16.03.07 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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It isn't going to end at 9.3bn...we've yet to see what the real bill will be.
I can't wait.
Amused | 16.03.07 - 6:46 p.m. | #
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Stop moaning everyone - it'll be grand!
embo | 16.03.07 - 7:46 p.m. | #
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What daily newspaper do you read then?
gwplf | 17.03.07 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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I don't think anyones disputing its an deprived area. (so deprived I can't afford to buy a house there!)
But they could have taken that £3.1 billion for the construction and constructed *something else* instead, rather than Hockey stadia etc.
Why does it take two weeks of sports to get development people in the area knew it needed for decades.
Battersea Pig | 19.03.07 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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What a ludicrous argument.
If the price doubled from here would you say "only" £2.50...at what point does it cease to be so wonderful?
(For me the moment it was clear they LIED to begin with!)
chrisc | 19.03.07 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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I for one am looking forward to the games. Not cos I like athletics (I don't really), but because it’ll be a grand occasion. My favourite city will put on a great show, the transport will cope (albeit crowded by the standards of people who come from countries that don’t move millions in and out every day), the weather will be great, etc, etc.
My biggest concern (other than the nutter with a bomb) is of volunteers denied access to watering holes because their Olympic shell suit falls foul of the dress code. Beware the jobsworth.
flashgordonnz | 20.03.07 - 1:50 a.m. | #
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