[aldo_14]

Because other atrracitons such as the new Wembley, Pixketts Lock, that 'flash' bridge and the Millenium Dome all were completeed within budget, on time and were great successes..........

Seriously.... they're talking about pissing away £2 billion on this, whilst pretty much every major part of the British infrastructure - transport, hospitals, schools & universities, police, fire service - is collapsing due to underfunding.

Not to mention it's another big wodge of cash chucked at London whilst pretty much everywhere north gets sod all...

[an0n]

Olympics + Congestion Fees = "Free lung-transplants for everyone!"

And didn't the Millenium Dome go about 5 times over-budget?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by an0n

And didn't the Millenium Dome go about 5 times over-budget?

Yeah, but I couldn;t find a more obvious 'sarcasm' smily.

[diamondgeezer]

So there I was watching this report on the news. They showed the wonderful sporting felicities of the various competing cities around the globe, then they showed what's left of Wembely stadium and sights such as piles of rubbish and burnt-out cars parked in the river. What I don't get is why, if they have the money to spend to fix those things, do they have to get the Olympics here to do it? The World Cup I could understand since footy is just about the only sport we have 1337 felicities for in the first place.

Bah, the Government wants to try and sell this Olympic bid to an army which can't afford to buy flak jackets and radios for its soldiers...

[an0n]

Aldo, I understood the sarcasm, I was just wondering exactly how much of a collosal failure it actually was.


And the Olympic Bid thing is just to draw attention away from Blair saying about 50 times he'll resign if the Hutton Report says he told everyone to leak Kelly's name.

[Bobboau]

well our government is loseing about half a trillion dollars a year, has spread it's millitary around the world and is now planning on makeing a moon base and a mars exposition.
don't feel too bad, after all it is ONLY $2,0... or umh, £2,000,000,000

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by an0n
I was just wondering exactly how much of a collosal failure it actually was.

Oh, it was big. Apart from building this huge, hideously expensive monstrosity which closed after a year, they rebuilt the Jubilee line so all the bajillions of visitos ( ) could get to it. The Jubilee line now carries about three people a day.

It was all part of a plan to turn London in to a giant circus. We had the giant big top, the bloody great ferris wheel and with the Jubilee line we had a ghost train

[an0n]

Oh, Jesus. You're right!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Oh, it was big. Apart from building this huge, hideously expensive monstrosity which closed after a year, they rebuilt the Jubilee line so all the bajillions of visitos ( ) could get to it. The Jubilee line now carries about three people a day.

It was all part of a plan to turn London in to a giant circus. We had the giant big top, the bloody great ferris wheel and with the Jubilee line we had a ghost train

I've always thought that the Millenium Dome was one of the greatest political time bombs ever made. It was in fact the Tory party who came up with the idea but few people ever remember that. They spent millions on it just before the election knowing that they wouldn't win and also knowing that they would have a nice big stick to beat Tony Blair over the head with.

He couldn't cancel it and he had no idea what to do with it either.

Seriously does anyone know what the Tory party were going to put in there? All the stuff that was put in there was invented by Labour cause the conservatives never seemed to let on what they were going to do with a big tent in Greenwich after they had finished building it.

[an0n]

I'm guessing they were going to do something useful with it, like turn it into one big post-modern museum/gallery.

[aldo_14]

would be quite useful as shelter for the homeless or an inner-city waste dump.

EDIT - Tories would probably have used it to house asylum seekers.

[Rictor]

Maybe you could turn it into a military holding pen ala Guantanamo. Then, you could hold gladiator fights and charge addmission. God knows, you'de attract about a bajillion American tourists.

So is this a bid for the Winter or Summer Olympics? Cause I think Beijing won the 2008 Olympic bid (beat Toronto, those bastards) so this would be the 2010 ones right?

[diamondgeezer]

2012 summer games

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Bobboau
after all it is ONLY $2,0... or umh, £2,000,000,000

That's debateable. It depends who's billions they were talking in.
They might have meant £2,000,000,000,000, which is bloody ludicrous.

[diamondgeezer]

Think how many banjos they could have bought with that

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I daren't.

[vyper]

Played much yet?

[magatsu1]

you lot talk as if it's over. The bloody dome still costs money, just to keep the thing as it is. I remember reading about a special corner plot no. xx (I forget the number) where all the super pricy kit is "stored". Things like £3,500 Plasma tellys, enough to be worth a few hundred K. at least, just sitting there.

And just 'cos the Tories thought of it, didn't mean Labour had to throw missions of pounds of state and lottery money at it.