Joe
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Costing £9.3 billion pounds to host the olympics, taking 1 third from Lottery money. Is anyone actually bothered about it being in the UK? Personally i'd rather see them save the money and invest it somewhere else, not bothered at all about it being hosted here.
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Bart
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they will generate alot from tourism, but agreed, invest the money in something of a worthy cause
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CorsAsh
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I'd rather they spent 9.3 bn on equipping us all with guns and declaring open season on illegal immigrants and criminals.
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Ian
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Most of that is things like infrastructure and buildings so you do benefit afterwards. It is a lot though.
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Ludacris Turbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Most of that is things like infrastructure and buildings so you do benefit if you live in London afterwards. It is a lot though.
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Joe
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exactly, seems the North benefits nothing apart from them wasting our money.
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Robin
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I agree, I can't see the point.
Millenium Dome anyone?
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John
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It's a farce the same as absolutely everything this government does.
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antscorsa
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the plans will make that part of london beautiful and help us to gain sporting glory in the future due to the superb sports facilities being made!
alot of money yes but a good cause.
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John
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It's not a good cause.
Whoever that was was saying it'll leave a legacy.
Nobody in the world cares about England or Britain, it's a total waste of money.
Bad areas rarely end up good.
Everything will end up destroyed in todays culture.
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andy1868
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i hate to be the pessimist but from where i'm sitting john has just got it bang on.
don't get me wrong, i would love to see the money getting spent and there being nicer areas of cities etc but after the olympics have come and gone it'll fall in disrepair and become a broken heirloom of the 2012 olympics. i hope i'm wrong though.
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Joe
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Not being pessimistic at all Andy, the government need to realise there is alot bigger problems in this country and there is actually a country outside of London.
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willay
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hello 
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Robin
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Not being pessimistic at all Andy, the government need to realise there is alot bigger problems in this country and there is actually a country outside of London.
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Joe
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Hi William, welcome to my thread.
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willay
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it should improve my railway line into london, that would be quite excellent.
[Edited on 15-03-2007 by Ian]
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Robin
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From Dover, yes 
The North will get fook all out of it to be fair, even I won't see anything decent from it 
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ed
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Which is why a lot of it is being funded by what the Mayor of London. Lots of Southerners are pissed off cos you lot aren't apying for it. Can't win at all so they wont bother trying to care.....
There will be a lot of improvements and tourism, it's not like the stuff they are building is going anywhere after the Olympics. It's about time this country invested in something positive 
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Jambo
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Id prefer this country investing in the health service so 36hr old babies dont fucking die of MRSA rather than build shit for the olympics
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Robbo
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The government is barely investing anything in it so no reason to cpmplain there and the revenue and tourism it qwill bring to the economy is immense... it is vital thatw e hold it!!
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drbeansri
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hospitals, there thinking of closing two perfectly good hospitals... to open one bigger one and save money,.. WHEN CRASHES HAPPEN (LIKE MINE AND ALL THE OTHER)
AND U NEED LIFE SAVING SUPPORT
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Kurt
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why are they waisting billions on the olympics and nuclear weapons, this government has the wrong priorities!! 9.3 billion plus the 4 billion for the nuclear subs could have been better spent on the NHS, Education and Prison Service...
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Kurt
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The government is barely investing anything in it so no reason to cpmplain there and the revenue and tourism it qwill bring to the economy is immense... it is vital thatw e hold it!!
are we up north going to see any of this? are we bollocks
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Robin
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TBF, we kinda need the nuclear subs, if we don't have them, we're an easy target.
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dave17
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thats what you get for being northern
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