Dave's Free Press: Journal

violence, pornography, and rude words for the web generation

 

Recent posts

(subscribe)

Recently commented posts

(subscribe)

Journals what I read

geeky politics rant silly religion meta music perl weird drinking culture london language transport sport olympics hacking media maths web photography etiquette spam amazon film bastards books bryar holidays palm telecoms cars travel yapc bbc clothes rsnapshot phone whisky security home radio lolcats deafness environment curry art work privacy iphone linux bramble unix go business engineering kindle gps economics latin anglo-saxon money cars environment electronics
Tue, 6 Dec 2011

Oh look, more Olympic financial incompetence

So we've known for for years that the Olympics would end up costing nearly four times the original budget, being £9.3 billion instead of the £2.4 billion we were originally told. Naturally, those extra seven billion will be taken from the pockets of tax-payers. Now the National Audit Office says that even that much higher figure might not be enough.

And now, for no apparent reason, the budget for the opening and closing ceremony has just been doubled. How it managed to cost £40 million in the first place is beyond me - all that's needed is:

  • a brief welcoming speech;
  • for the participants to take the "Olympic Oath" which they will then blatantly ignore;
  • a brief closing speech
and what on earth they'll find to spend £81 million on I have no idea.

Thankyou very much Seb Coe you midget Tory CUNT

Posted at 22:36 by David Cantrell
keywords: olympics | rant
Permalink | 1 Comment

But but think of the tourism! And the jobs! Think of the glory for our selfless politicians.

Posted by Geeklawyer on Wed, 7 Dec 2011 at 08:01:37


Sorry, this post is too old for you to comment on it.

Archive