Kurt
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TBF, we kinda need the nuclear subs, if we don't have them, we're an easy target.
why? theyre just going to float about unused for 20 years until its time to replace them again
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andy1868
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lets not get into a north/south debate again  we're all the same country
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4B3dnt-AHw
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Kurt
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_29H-uiWOs
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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.
why? theyre just going to float about unused for 20 years until its time to replace them again
If we didn't have one and then there was a war in which they were needed, you'd be asking WTF we didn't have any.
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Dom
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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
the north isn't paying for it, so why should you be complaining? 
I agree that it is a lot of money, but then again it'll bring in a lot of money from tourism (plus other events), and will improve london a lot!
The could have spent it on the NHS, but they it gets spent on paperclips and photocopying paper
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Robin
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Anyway, back to the Olympics
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Kurt
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im sure somewhere my taxes are going towards it
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topshot_2k
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the olympic village will flop like all of these sports events, it will attract tourists for 2 years maybe, loose appeal, get run down, just like the dome
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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!!
are we up north going to see any of this? are we bollocks
Who gives a fuck about regions of the country... its about bringing in money to the whole economy not one specific region 
And the govt arent paying fir it! And the subs was £20bn not £4 
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Jules S
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£9.2bn is about £300 per working individual in the uk (based on 30m working)
Building that lot on some SERIOUSLY contaminted land is my best guess as to why the cost has risen so much...
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Robbo
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Yes except 95% of the money is coming from the Lottery
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topshot_2k
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that will be paid back later also government still has to find money for its stake
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andy1868
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whether the lottery is paying for it doesn't matter that much, £9.3 billion is one hell of alot money, whoever its coming from
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Matt H
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Its going to put house prices up, as many builders will be working on the olympic buildings & less houses will be built
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ed
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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
No ammount of money can stop MRSA.
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mav
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I couln't care really where they are held...
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SVM 286
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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.
I was to say the least, in fact, my mood was more  the day I found out we had been lumbered with the olympics.
I watched the excited twat athletes cheering about the UK winning the bid as though they'd found a pot of gold or cured cancer, and all I could think was, ''ok, fine, cheer all you like you bunch of blinkered fuckwits. You lot pick up the tab then.''
Then when I heard the estimate, I estimated 12 billion. I would now like to increase my estimate to 18 - 22 billion. I'm sure I will have to ammend this at least twice more during the next 5 years.
This big pointless pile of crap is going to make the millenium tent in Greenwich look like a roaring success and a complete bargain.
I wonder what insane plan our insane government will come up with next, in an attempt to outdo THIS particular white elephant?
Giant waterslides on the moon perhaps?
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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
Here here, and seconded to the utmost Mr Jam.
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Cosmo
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i havent read the whole thread but...
i have no problem with the cost if it bene its the people paying for it.
but the fact its ONLY being hosted in London (i.e. all new infrastructure and tourist money going there) yet the WHOLE country is paying really really annoys me!
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Robin
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Maybe you should read the thread then Cosmo 
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Nath
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What Sid said.
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dazavich
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Originally posted by Corsash
"I'd rather they spent 9.3 bn on equipping us all with guns and declaring open season on illegal immigrants and criminals"
I like your way of thinking mate
[Edited on 16-03-2007 by dazavich]
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Ally
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Fingers crossed the company i work for will win the contract there for the cement powder, think they will be needing about 50,000 tons .... aka about 1800 deliveries :loL:
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willay
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will you be driving the truck Ally  ?
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Ally
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Ummm i doubt it but at the rate we are going at the moment they are going to need all the drivers they can get
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