I've just been idly clicking through the BBC website and found this story about the London bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. It seems our Great and Glorious Leaders were preparing to piss away 15 milion pounds in "incentives" if athletes were prepared to come to Britain for the games - including free return flights for all participants and 26,000 pounds for countries to set up training camps.
What is this all about ???
Quite honestly I don't see why the British taxpayers should bear the brunt of the huge bill for inviting a load of sweaty athletes over here for a few days of running and jumping. Is it really going to raise the country's profile that much? Will millions of foreigners think "I saw a bloke jogging quite quickly on the TV last week - think I'll catch a flight to the UK" ? I think not!
Besides, most of the African nations have runners so bloody thin they'll spend their entire visit in the cake shop, The Albanians will all have their underwear stuffed full of cocaine and Turkmenistani's will start their own sport of queuing outside immigration offices pleading forasylum (xenophobia it's tricky to spell but looks good onscreen :)
If the British Government wants to spend millions of pounds why not plough it into the Health Service, roads or the BBC - at least this way the people of the country can benefit from it - but then it's not Mr Tony Bleargh's style to actually consider the local population - where's the publicity in that ?
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