Olympics To Allow State Sanctioned Demonstrations
Jeremy Hunt: London 2012 Olympics will not be 'austerity Olympics' - Telegraph
Jeremy Hunt believes that hosting the Games is an “incredible stroke of luck” during the global economic crisis as it will provide a “huge plus sign” for the struggling British economy. He also says demonstrators will be tolerated as long as their protests are legitimate and lawful.
Oh that is jolly decent of him to tolerate demonstrators, but seeing how they have introduced new laws that prevent anyone being rude about the games if he so decides it isn't exactly that reassuring.
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and where does he get this daft idea of an economic boost? Lloyd-Webber, restauranteurs and hoteliers are all saying that bookings are way down because people just don't want to be in the middle of the security nightmare.
Posted by: Tim Almond | December 31, 2011 12:20 PM
These regulations you mention - they are temporary, right? They only apply to the Olympics, during the period of the Olympics, right?
Has anyone read the small print?
These strike me as the kind of regulations that certain sorts of people would just LOVE to have in place permanently, everywhere.
Are we sure?
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | January 1, 2012 10:04 PM