Olympics budget

[lazyitus]

Now well over and standing at c£12 billion. Twelve BILLION pounds.

Money well spent???

[rover 623gsi]

yep

[Digga]

Morning Lazy, no it will be a clusterfk.

We can ill afford the event and it will - as do all public holidays, world cups and the like - put a jeffing big dent in the economy that, to be frank, we really cannot afford right now.

Add to this the fact that the Olympic Crony Committee block-booked a good chunk of London's hotel rooms for themselves about five years back, and I fail to see how even the tourism industry will benefit.

[muffinmenace]

lazyitus said:

Money well spent???

What was it Labours Olympic Minister said: "If we'd have know about the recession we wouldn't have bothered."?

[roachcoach]

It does save me the trouble of looking for a good example when I say the public sector shouldn't be project managing a gangbang in a wehouse.

[Digga]

muffinmenace said:

What was it Labours Olympic Minister said: "If we'd have know about the recession we wouldn't have bothered."?

Did they think the inevetable bust that followed their boom would arrive a bit later or something?

[muffinmenace]

Digga said:

Did they think the inevetable bust that followed their boom would arrive a bit later or something?

But they'd put an end to Boom and Bust

[thinfourth2]

muffinmenace said:

But they'd put an end to Boom and Bust

The did bring an end to boom and bust

[roachcoach]

thinfourth2 said:

muffinmenace said:

But they'd put an end to Boom and Bust

The did bring an end to boom and bust

ah but is "Boom and holy st we're fkED" preferable?

[lazyitus]

Digga said:

Morning Lazy, no it will be a clusterfk.

Morning mate. You well?

Not sure it'll be a clusterfk or not. But that sort of spend, even if there was no recession etc etc is hideous. Just so people can let some fireworks off and then run and jump around a fking field????

Joke.

[Hoofy]

All lies. I distinctly remember the top people saying that it was within budget about 2 months ago.

[0000]

thinfourth2 said:

The did bring an end to boom and bust

What's the punchline?

[Spiritual_Beggar]

The question that gets swept under the table in all the hysteria should be this........



How can anyone with even the slightest bit of competence get a budget wrong by such a huge amount!!!


It is either gross 'incompetence', or someone was 'deliberately' keeping the figures low in order not to scare away support for the olympics.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

0000 said:

thinfourth2 said:

The did bring an end to boom and bust

What's the punchline?

It's all bust from here on out.

[lazyitus]

Spiritual_Beggar said:

The question that gets swept under the table in all the hysteria should be this........

How can anyone with even the slightest bit of competence get a budget wrong by such a huge amount!!!

It is either gross 'incompetence', or someone was 'deliberately' keeping the figures low in order not to scare away support for the olympics.

This, totally. It stinks like st.

[Digga]

lazyitus said:

Spiritual_Beggar said:

The question that gets swept under the table in all the hysteria should be this........

How can anyone with even the slightest bit of competence get a budget wrong by such a huge amount!!!

It is either gross 'incompetence', or someone was 'deliberately' keeping the figures low in order not to scare away support for the olympics.

This, totally. It stinks like st.

And we'll never find out where a good deal of the dosh went, or not for a very long time at any rate. Aprt from Ken Livingstone that is - I know he;s had his hand in the till.

O/T Yep, I'm keeping well Lazy, and you?

[catso]

On the bright side it makes the millenium tent look like small change...

[theaxe]

lazyitus said:

Now well over and standing at c£12 billion. Twelve BILLION pounds.

Money well spent???

Do you have a source for that figure? (not denying it, just wondered where it came from)

Money well spent? We'll see, most recent Olympics have turned a profit so there's a chance. Plus we spend more money on less interesting things already so I'm willing to give it a chance.

[zaphod42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16036435

£9.3bn of public funding. I'm not sure that takes into account 3rd party ventures and non-public spend - e.g. sponsored activity (eg BMWs fleet of cars) but I guess it doesn't as they don't need to be costed.

[Sam the Mut]

12 Billion. Could think of a lot better way of spending that money on something that would put the UK on the map. Could we build a Concorde replacment for that amount? How about building the fastest jet ever. Not for research just to say we can.


Any other idea's