London 2012 Olympics

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  • the new anti olympics logo ... and 145 till it's all over .... ooohhh i'm excited as it's getting close to being all over
    COME ON

  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9213256/Olympic-warship-plan-sinks-over-safety-concerns-sparking-diplomatic-row.html

    Officials are concerned the spectacle of the barge, which would have carried the Olympic flame, would lead to overcrowding, traffic chaos and could even lead to spectators throwing themselves from bridges.

    Has no-one seen a boat before ?

  • Best story this week on the Olympic Farce is that they spend £5000 of tax payers money on sandcastle only to knock it down over H and S measures.

    Who the fuck is allowing these idiots to waste this money, can't wait till this shambles is over!

  • Best story this week on the Olympic Farce is that they spend £5000 of tax payers money on sandcastle only to knock it down over H and S measures.

    Who the fuck is allowing these idiots to waste this money, can't wait till this shambles is over!

    A sponsor paid for it…

    Funnily enough sponsors paid for the lion share of the olympics and the money paid by tax payers has already been made back by ticket sales.

  • A sponsor paid for it…

    Funnily enough sponsors paid for the lion share of the olympics and the money paid by tax payers has already been made back by ticket sales.

    All £24 billion?

  • That's the cost of the Olympics - not what the tax payers paid. The newspapers don't tell you that.

  • Exactly.

  • Funnily enough sponsors paid for the lion share of the olympics and the money paid by tax payers has already been made back by ticket sales.

    Drivel.

    How much have ticket sales raised?

  • They've made £1billion on the London 2012 merchandising programme already and they have sold around 11 million tickets.

  • Best story this week on the Olympic Farce is that they spend £5000 of tax payers money on sandcastle only to knock it down over H and S measures.

    Who the fuck is allowing these idiots to waste this money, can't wait till this shambles is over!

    it's not just these, idiots there are things like this happening all over the " government " just on a much larger scale

    The NHS Computer system shame that wasn't £5,000, i think they have spunked nearly £10bn on that and it still doesn't work probably won't go into production and is still sucking money in

    Private Eye doesn't fill its pages with tat, they expose jolly jaunts at taxpayers expenses that have been going on for the last 20 odd years

    the level of greed and stupidity combined has probably put us in the economic crisis we are in at the minute !

  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9213256/Olympic-warship-plan-sinks-over-safety-concerns-sparking-diplomatic-row.html

    Officials are concerned the spectacle of the barge, which would have carried the Olympic flame, would lead to overcrowding, traffic chaos and could even lead to spectators throwing themselves from bridges.

    Has no-one seen a boat before ?

    "carrying the flame from Tower Bridge to the stadium in Stratford."

    How? i can only see that it will travel about 500m then have to dock to carry it up to the stadium.

  • They've made £1billion on the London 2012 merchandising programme already and they have sold around 11 million tickets.

    More drivel. Can you provide a link substantiating the 11 million ticket sales figure?

  • The NHS Computer system shame that wasn't £5,000, i think they have spunked nearly £10bn on that and it still doesn't work probably won't go into production and is still sucking money in

    Wish I was in on that one.. :)

  • That's the cost of the Olympics - not what the tax payers paid. The newspapers don't tell you that.

    That's not what the article I read said.

    Here's a newer article and mentions £9.3 billion of public sector funds ( including cash from central government, London authorities and the National Lottery).

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12477803

  • More drivel. Can you provide a link substantiating the 11 million ticket sales figure?

    No not really as these figures aren't yet public

    8.8mn according to LOCOG

    http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Locog%20response%20to%20Just%20the%20Ticket.pdf

    That's a quite a few months old

  • That's not what the article I read said.

    Here's a newer article and mentions £9.3 billion of public sector funds ( including cash from central government, London authorities and the National Lottery).

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12477803

    £9.3billion is a bit less than £24 billion!

  • And it's a load more than your 1billion..

  • And it's a load more than your 1billion..

    Sorry where did i say it will cost the tax payer only £1 billion??

  • Where did I say you said it would cost the taxpayer £1billion?
    You said the taxpayer contribution has already been accounted for with ticket sales. But the taxpayer contribution is more like £9billion..

    money paid by tax payers has already been made back by ticket sales.

    They've made £1billion on the London 2012 merchandising programme already and they have sold around 11 million tickets.

    So, where's the rest of the £9 billion coming from?

  • 11 million tickets - not £11 million worth of tickets.

  • How much money have they made on ticket sales?

  • Actually, how much money have they made, full stop?

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