Re: Rethink on Olympics ?



On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:41:05 +0100, Edward Cowling London UK
<edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


With what looks like another age of austerity looming (anyone for
powdered Egg and Spam ?) perhaps it is time to rethink spending billions
on the Olympics ?

It does seem a bit like putting solid gold baubles on a very moth eaten
second hand Xmas tree !

Surely the money could be better spent helping the vulnerable survive
the winters ?


No, let them freeze to death and stop my taxs being wasted on Pensions
and the Winter Vote Buying Payment.


Sport is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important than
that (to mis-quote Bill Shankly).

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