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The Olympic Legacy
Sex God
the goverment has always put money befor life....
the great train robbers yrs ago got 30yrs each for robbing a train,,
a pervert who kills a child gets 9 yrs
so money comes with a higher sentence...
the great train robbers yrs ago got 30yrs each for robbing a train,,
a pervert who kills a child gets 9 yrs
so money comes with a higher sentence...
The Olympics was merely a PR excercise for the suited and booted mob.
People like that loser Livingstone and Coe, who thought it would raise their own agendas.
Bottom line is nobody was asked if they wanted it, but Londoners will be paying for it for years to come.
A legacy? More like a white elephant.
The area needed to be regenerated for sure, as it was one of the poorest parts of London but....after the Olympics only the well off will be able to live there anyway.
A waste of money, money we have not got as the private sector have failed to invest like they said they would. So once again the taxpayer will pick up the tab, and we were not even asked!!
I will wait to find out how much was the original cost, and then reality in how much it will have cost come the end of the games.
People like that loser Livingstone and Coe, who thought it would raise their own agendas.
Bottom line is nobody was asked if they wanted it, but Londoners will be paying for it for years to come.
A legacy? More like a white elephant.
The area needed to be regenerated for sure, as it was one of the poorest parts of London but....after the Olympics only the well off will be able to live there anyway.
A waste of money, money we have not got as the private sector have failed to invest like they said they would. So once again the taxpayer will pick up the tab, and we were not even asked!!
I will wait to find out how much was the original cost, and then reality in how much it will have cost come the end of the games.
Sex God
Quote by kentswingers777
The Olympics was merely a PR excercise for the suited and booted mob.
People like that loser Livingstone and Coe, who thought it would raise their own agendas.
Bottom line is nobody was asked if they wanted it, but Londoners will be paying for it for years to come.
A legacy? More like a white elephant.
The area needed to be regenerated for sure, as it was one of the poorest parts of London but....after the Olympics only the well off will be able to live there anyway.
A waste of money, money we have not got as the private sector have failed to invest like they said they would. So once again the taxpayer will pick up the tab, and we were not even asked!!
I will wait to find out how much was the original cost, and then reality in how much it will have cost come the end of the games.
It's not just Londoners that are paying for it. We're all having money taken off us without our say-so to pay for it. And those outside London won't get ANY benefot from any so-called legacy (by that they mean left-over) facilities.
wasnt the millennium dome ment to be for this ? ok i know not only, but im sure they said afterwards it could be used as some huge sporting arena if we won the hosting.
makes me laugh,it costs over £4 to go swimming here, but its free if your over 60, ok not being rude but not many budding 60 year old olympians.
how many of the uk willbe able to afford tickets, travel, hotels, etc to even go watch an event when its on?
xx fem xx
makes me laugh,it costs over £4 to go swimming here, but its free if your over 60, ok not being rude but not many budding 60 year old olympians.
how many of the uk willbe able to afford tickets, travel, hotels, etc to even go watch an event when its on?
xx fem xx
Sex God
Quote by fem_4_taboo
wasnt the millennium dome ment to be for this ? ok i know not only, but im sure they said afterwards it could be used as some huge sporting arena if we won the hosting.
makes me laugh,it costs over £4 to go swimming here, but its free if your over 60, ok not being rude but not many budding 60 year old olympians.
how many of the uk willbe able to afford tickets, travel, hotels, etc to even go watch an event when its on?
xx fem xx
Since most of us will be at work when it's on it'll be less relavent to us than the Los Angeles one was - at least we could watch that in the evening.
Quote by fem_4_taboo
wasnt the millennium dome ment to be for this ? ok i know not only, but im sure they said afterwards it could be used as some huge sporting arena if we won the hosting.
makes me laugh,it costs over £4 to go swimming here, but its free if your over 60, ok not being rude but not many budding 60 year old olympians.
how many of the uk willbe able to afford tickets, travel, hotels, etc to even go watch an event when its on?
xx fem xx
Naah Fem the Millenium Dome was only meant for the white elephant that was the Millenium Exhibition, it was only a "temporary" display hall... thanks to O2 it has had a new lease of life.
The over 60's are so numerous here in Plym you can't get a free lane for decent freestyle work, they all sit doing breastroke at chatting about there varicose veins etc...
Ok so that was generalising a tad, what with them, teenagers doing a spot of heavy petting and kids doing "bombs" the only decent swim you get is if you join one of the decent adult only swimming clubs.
I'm glad the Olympics is coming to GB, makes me proud to be part of a great sporting nation able to the host the defining pinnacle in track and field.
If we had taken the cost of reduction in VAT (a saving of 12.5 billion per annum) and instead of giving it back as a drop in the VAT rate then distributed it into construction and building projects around the country based on head of population in all the areas (approx £250 per person) we could have kicked off a great big capital build programme in this country whether it was education, hospitals, law and order, urban regeneration et al.
That would have kept more people employed, thereby increasing the wealth of the working man. More wages = more money into the tax system, thereby keeping this country's head above water and keeping less off the dole queue.
I digress though, I don't believe for one minute the olympics will breed a new era of couch potatoes due to lack of funding. In the south west we have already seen investment into sports arena and water sports facilities due to the Olympics, so I would like to know where the OP got the information from that this is not so, or is it just tabloid heresay and media hype?
Sex God
The Tories left Labour the millenium dome I suspect Labour where thinking they'd be leaving the olympics for the Tories...not so much a legacy as a poisoned chalice
Quote by flower411
We were told that having the Olympics in London would give us a "legacy" that would encourage people into sport.
We now hear that funds that should be going to local sporting facilities are being diverted to build parts of the Olympic complex !!! The money being put into this latest white elephant could be spent on health and education but is, instead being spent on boosting the fragile egos of has been sports stars and politicians.
Taking money away from local sports facilities to build five star accomodation for visiting athletes is going to leave a "legacy" alright !!!
A bunch of couch potatoes watching drugged up prima donnas performing amazing feats on the telly while they sit and watch, unable to "do" because local facilities have been run down.
This is so very true, where I live there have been two places that have been condemned and closed down, One being Crystal Palace sports stadium that was once one of our national stadiums but lack of investment over years has caused the closure, the other being our local swimming pools.
Both of these facilities were used by Children and schools. Crystal Palace home of so many sports clubs for children from athletics, diving, swimming, gymnastics, the list was endless. Each time I tried to enrol my children into a club there were waiting list to join. Now the whole stadium is closed where have all those children gone?
Local school now due to the closure of the local pools have to get a coach to pools 3-4 miles away, some would say we are lucky to have somewhere to go but in London this can take 45 minutes to get there the children’s swimming time has been shorten to accommodate the travel time, where before it took 15 minutes walk now it is sitting on a coach. The government say our children are becoming obese I wonder why?
When I was young I spent many a day over the lido with friends, all these have been closed down too.
Lido being outdoor swimming pools every park had one.
Good point flower.
In my little bit of Kent we have a lovely open space. Its next door to the leisure centre and national trampoline centre. Open spaces are in fairly short suppply in medway, its incredibly densely populated around here. The open space was already used by the local youngsters in the usual jumpers for goalposts kinds of ways and by dog walkers and fun fairs and the community as a whole.
Our local council decided that we needed a training centre for athletes for the olympics with the result that this useful space is currently being redeveloped into a state of the art running track and arena. Its heartbreaking that such a valuable community resource used by many will now be the privilege of the few. I wonder how many other examples of such investment can be observed in the olympic catchment area.
In my little bit of Kent we have a lovely open space. Its next door to the leisure centre and national trampoline centre. Open spaces are in fairly short suppply in medway, its incredibly densely populated around here. The open space was already used by the local youngsters in the usual jumpers for goalposts kinds of ways and by dog walkers and fun fairs and the community as a whole.
Our local council decided that we needed a training centre for athletes for the olympics with the result that this useful space is currently being redeveloped into a state of the art running track and arena. Its heartbreaking that such a valuable community resource used by many will now be the privilege of the few. I wonder how many other examples of such investment can be observed in the olympic catchment area.
