What Gordon thinks of London 2012

Chuck Unsworth

All the Olympics in the world will not resolve the underlying disaster of a busted economy. So, put out more flags.

Maggie

I'll only be able to enjoy the games if the government can give cast iron guarantees that Illegal immigrants will not find an easy entry into the country as "sports lovers" and that all the athletes will go home immedately afterwards.

HJ

If Brown really does hate the olympics, then it's one thing we finally agree on. Why is the tax payer being made to pay millions to watch people run around in circles? We are constantly being spun some BS that it's 'good for the kids'. How about we start educating children again before we worry about the olympics. I wouldn't care, because I don't live in London, except that my local leisure centre has just had loads of money slashed from its budget in order to fund the bloody thing. How is that good for sport?

TrevorsDen

What we all want to know is what Gordon thought of Tony's f------ war.

Battle 2807

I think that ANY olympics is a total and appalling waste of money, and this one will be an albatross around the neck of GB for many years to come. For no benefit as far as I can make out.
Slightly (oh all right, totally) off topic, I have been watching BBC parliament debating the gracious speech and am struck once again by the difference between the 2 sides. How can I put this politely?: the conservative speeches are intelligent, well thought out and incisive. The labour speeches are irritating, ill-educated and a load of rubbish.
Could we not force all voters to watch perhaps one hour of parliamentary debate before they mindlessly put their cross on the ballot paper?
Labour comes across as a bunch of student rabble-rousers. They are a disgrace.

Sir Graphus

Finally; Gordon and I agree on something. The Olympics was an unaffordable vanity project thrust upon by Blair.

I do not and did not know anyone, nor know anyone who knew anyone, who wanted the Olympics. It was just another thing we’d have to borrow money for. We knew it then. It’s a relic of the times when those in power thought there was no limit to the amount the country could borrow without consequence.

Battle 2807

What Gordon thought of Tony's f...ing olympics.
How very statesman-like! How unpartisan! How much to be admired, nay emulated by our young people!
This just about sums up what has happened to politics in the last 13 years.
How sad, what has happened to our great country under nulabour. Was it deliberate? I think it was.

Lady Astor's son-in-law

The 2012 Olympics will be a wonderful celebration of ...

inequality!

Nicholas

I have a sneaking suspicion that the hoopla for the 2012 Olympics will be a celebration of the Left, Political Correctness and the minority imposed Multi-Cultural NewLab Island. The traditional British bits will probably be cheap, cod and crap.

Watch out for Red China type synchronised strutting with the fervour of the torchlight parades but the cadence of gay, ethnic and disabled ostrich feathered show persons with supporting police persons grinning inanely as they "get down". Boris, if he's still around, will master the ceremony as a mixture of Animal House, minor prep school sports day and Rag Week. You will need earplugs for all the celeb bandwagon jumpers screeching (male and female) and plenty of brown paper bags to breathe and be sick into.

Oh, joy.

Edward

'Switzerland of politics'? Please, give me a break. What that phrase really means is that the political class have decided they're going ahead with it, and the voters are going to be ignored.

See also EU membership, wind farms and the Firearms Act.

Dorothy Wilson

But, yet again, with the Olympics we have a situation where Brown was Chancellor the Exchequer, holding a very senior position in the Cabinet, but did nothing to rein in Blair.

salieri

I never thought I would agree with Gordo, still less admire his incisive use of language.

Draft Crunt

As far as Broon is concerned, it doesn't matter. Tere'll be no Olympics in Kirkaldy, so it won't disturb his retirement.

Austin Barry

The Austerity Olympics should consist of just one event: the womens' beach volley-ball competition.

I suspect, however, that the predilections of Mandy and chums will mean the retention of all events in which glistening young Ganymedes joyously evoke thoughts of "Citius, Altius, Fortius".

De Rigueur

Yes Austin,
I suspect, however, that the predilections of Mandy and chums will mean the retention of all events in which glistening young Ganymedes joyously evoke thoughts of "Citius, Altius, Fortius".

...and all dressed up in their sweat-stained, vulgarly coloured underwear.

Michael Booth

Bread and circuses - works every time. Helps to take the mind of the insanities and oppression of life under authoritarian governments. For a while, that is.