So London wins the Olympic games! - Gee, Wiz! - I guess I can look forward to an unavailability of tickets (as all the backslapping VIPs would have taken them up), increased congestion around East London, the public transport system crippling under pressure (as always) and a hefty rise in my council tax bills to actually pay for these wonderful new Olympic improvements within the M25.
Can we even deliver major projects on schedule and within a budget? - remember the Dome??!
Its also funny how London or more specifically, the British, have already started to show the World their 'Olympic Spirit' by choosing to celebrate the successful bid not through dignified jubilation, but rather to concentrate on sneering at the French with total conceited arrogance.
Emails are being circulated showing a limp Eiffel Tower and a French woman flogging half price Paris 2012 T-shirts, radio DJs are calling Parisians "hairy Frogs", and the nation revels in jingoistic references - I mean WTF does Napoleon and Trafalgar have to do with the Olympic games??!!
I thought the Olympics were supposed to unite the world, not aggravate age-old feuds between nations!
If the IOC initially saw this (typical) behaviour of the British (i.e., they are sore-winners as everything seems to revert back to wars and xenophobia) then I'm not so sure the Capital would be celebrating today.
London 2012 - who cares??!!
Oh yeah, and remember that thing called the G8 that we were all so concerned about when our favourite Rock bands were playing Hyde Park last Saturday? - Funny how Africa's plight has now been relegated from the front page...
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