The whole thing is a massive cash cow.

Ther is no way this country is prepared for something of this stature, we could have coped with another big football tournament no problem, due to the fact we have the grounds already capable of supporting such a thing, plus a national stadium more than capable (if in the wrong fookin place)

The country is close to ****ing itself financially anyway, without a £24 billion balls up like the Olympics! I don't mean to sound like some kind of political militant battering on about the previous government, but this is just another kick in the balls from the last bunch of turds! We will be ****ed for years thanks to them! Not forgetting the sending our troops to fight American wars all over the world. Spending god knows how much in doing so.

if you need a model of what an Olympics can do to a country, just look at the **** Greece is in now. Australia is suffering to a degree too. Only China, being the biggest emerging nation can absorb something like an Olympics.

I dread to think what will happen to this country in the next 10 years or so on the back of all this. If you think things are bad now, be prepared for much worse to come.