On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Tony Polson wrote:

"Ian Johnston" wrote:

I think we can safely assume that the people who ran the Olympic bid
did very nicely out of it. I think we can assume that the people who
run the games project will do very nicely out of it. And I think we can
safely assume that the people who live on or near the sites will be
****ed over before and during the games and left to rot afterwards.

London 2012 will be a landmark exercise in institutional corruption at
its very best (i.e. worst).

Oh, i don't know - bear in mind that it'll be in competition with the
world-class institutional corruption seen in every previous Olympics
project. Are you really saying institutional corruption is something the
British are world-beaters at? And if so, can we make it an event in the
Games?

tom

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