And yet... (from today's Sunday Times):
THE cost of the London Olympics will be more than double the price quoted in the bid document that helped Britain to win the 2012 Games, according to the official budget to be released next month.
The increase to £5.1 billion will provoke controversy because the government will have to raid at least £1.7 billion extra from lottery good causes and public funds to bail out the Games.
The idea of pissing money down the sink for the glorification of a few people running, jumping, splashing about and throwing things whilst the nation's defences collapse in on themselves is frankly outrageous.