No Freak Show please!
Samizdata.net has the definitive post as to why we don't want the Olympics in London. I have been trying to tie up a couple of threads to comment on the same for a while.
1) The Royal Mail wants to apologise to us for the strikes so what do they do, promise to do better, welcome competition, send us all a free stamp - no they offer £1m to the London Olympic Games Bid - bastards.
2: There was a report that Sportsmen have emotional retardation and most professionals had an emotional age of 13. Tantrums, inability to tell wrong from right, lying, cheating etc. I have been trying to find the report to link to do but have given up , but I know I didn't imagine it. So is that what we want to encourage our younsters to do - to become emotionally crippled phtsically deformed drug taking whingers? (I'm also convinced that the long term cost of sports injuries is on a par with tobacco - lung cancer kills quickly but dodgy knees go on costing!