London 2012

[Harold_Shand]

Be afraid.

£900 million over budget. It's six fucking years away yet.

Only the politicians don't realise this country is going backwards. As if this shit hole and the wankers running it can handle an Olympics.

Head for the hills, disaster and embarrasment is imminent.
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[wikiwiki]

i ain't going nowhere, i've paid for front row seats for this disaster as has every one else,
sh*t i'm paying for my ticket in monthly installments it's that worth it

[matthab]

hell itll be funny to see them try and build all the stuff they plan, christ look how long it took for wembly stadium what a disaster.

gonna have fun watching this disaster unfold
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[Mister James]

Yeah, can't wait for my council tax to go up to pay for something I am not even vaguely interested in.
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[Marcg868]

Thank fuck i live in Manchester, and wont have to see the disaster every day

Maybe London should give us a ring and ask for some tips. Smaller scale but the Commenwelth Games went well and was good for Our City
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[JonB]

Commonwealth games take as much planning as a mini-rideout compared to the Olympics.

It's a UK wide thing the Olympics, saw the plans for the harbour at Portland Bill for the sailing events a couple of weeks back.
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[Ste]

£900 million over budget, it's not as though they've done very much yet anyway. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/2012_olympic_site/

https://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2007031501,00.jpg

[froggeh]

900,000,000 will be pennies by the time it happens.

By then the lottery will have been raided, London Council tax will have doubled, and maybe a couple of pennies on income tax...

Enjoy!

I may have to come back home to see this one tho, might be a laugh (A very expensive one)

[feef]

I live 40 mins away from London by train.

I'm going to go on an extended holiday when the limpix are on, and rent out my house...



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[Dan 4RR]

Going to be so funny watching this national embarresment unfold from Oz

Should of let the french have it, save the people in London and other taxpayers forking out for it for something I'm not interested in.
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[killa]

Get rid of London.....a lot of problems solved IMO.
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[Mr.Everready]

I've always wondered with these big projects going over budget.

Why do they not get quotes and hold the building company to it ?
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[zaknafien]

2012 \o/

You lot can pay for it I'll go and watch it.
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[WildGoose]

crock of shite

so many things wrong, so many things to sort out, such a shortage of money in places, prisons overcrowded to bursting point, transport a shambles, pollution apparently killing the world, thousands of illegal aliens arriving in our country by day and not a thing being done about it, a government falling to pieces, public confidence across the entire country must be at a record low....


but no, bollocks to all this, lets host the chuffing olympics

in the scheme of things, life and the world in general, why is so much importance put on such a load of bollocks, in my opinion, lets have a running and jumping competition when we've addressed real life first shall we? just an idea eh

the narrow mindedness of those involved, all those who promoted it, just not caring about anything but getting the UK committed to hosting something it cant possibly cope with, or have the resources for

to be fair this can be applied to any number of things, people only care about what is important to them etc

but i think the 2012 olympics go above and beyond all ridiculousness

it makes me so angry
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[Mister James]

[JonB]

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[Irezumi aka Reuben]

Has anyone here actually had any experience of the area where they are buliding all of this?

[Ste]

They're doing well, its now £6.9 billion over budget.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6453575.stm

[Harley Godzisz]

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[stinkwheel]

Sounds like they're using the same builders that did the Scottish Parliment building.

It came in only 1000% over budget, a mere snip at £414,000,000.

Hardly stands out like a sore thumb at all.

[cestrian]

I'm guessing they have inflated the estimates to take care of over-spending, yet it will come in massively over-budget. Can this government get anything right?

[Mr.Everready]