umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Mrs Redboots wrote:
umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.

Can't wait. Hope all the extra tax I'll pay for this pointless waste
of money will mean the athletes and the locals in stratford have a
whale
of a time.

B2003

Boltar wrote:
Mrs Redboots wrote:
umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.

Can't wait. Hope all the extra tax I'll pay for this pointless waste
of money will mean the athletes and the locals in stratford have a
whale
of a time.

Personally I'm really looking forward to sharing London's transport
'system' with half a million extra people, for a month.

--
Larry Lard
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"Larry Lard" wrote in message
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Personally I'm really looking forward to sharing London's
transport 'system' with half a million extra people, for a month.

And who would they be? The hotels are normally pretty full in the summer,
and they won't be any fuller, since the inflated hotel prices will deter any
normal holidaymakers from coming here.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
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A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

Nice to see you looking on the bright side as usual Boltar, the glass is
definatly half empty with you.



Boltar wrote:

Mrs Redboots wrote:

umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:


And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!


AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.


Can't wait. Hope all the extra tax I'll pay for this pointless waste
of money will mean the athletes and the locals in stratford have a
whale
of a time.

B2003

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

Nice to see you looking on the bright side as usual Boltar, the glass is
definatly half empty with you.

I always thought the glass was *completely* empty with Boltar.

tom

--
They travel the world in their ice cream van ...

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:01:38 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

Nice to see you looking on the bright side as usual Boltar, the glass is
definatly half empty with you.

I always thought the glass was *completely* empty with Boltar.

Or filled with ****.
--
Nick Cooper

[Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!]

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625-Online - classic British television:
http://www.625.org.uk
'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic:
http://www.thingstocome.org.uk

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Nick Cooper wrote:

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:01:38 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

Nice to see you looking on the bright side as usual Boltar, the glass is
definatly half empty with you.

I always thought the glass was *completely* empty with Boltar.

Or filled with ****.

Sometimes it's bile.

tom

--
3364147 Complete space vehicles (excluding propulsion systems)

Boltar wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

Can't wait. Hope all the extra tax I'll pay for this pointless waste
of money will mean the athletes and the locals in stratford have a
whale
of a time.

Improved transport links, new sports facilities, new housing - all a
waste of money? To say nothing of overall health improved as more
people take up sport? Anyway, I should think an awful lot of it will be
paid by Coca-Cola & similar sponsors - "they" say it won't be more than
a few pence per inhabitant overall.....
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

Improved transport links, new sports facilities, new housing

Virtually all of that is happening anyway, as was made clear in the
Olympic bid.

"they" say it won't be more than a few pence per inhabitant
overall.....

Have you not seen the figures?

The immediate direct tax on London council tax payers will be £20 per
annum for a band D property (for my small terraced house it will be £30
per annum).

As Baroness Blackstone confirmed in parliament two years ago, this
surcharge will continue until the cost of the games has been met. Even
then, the most conservative estimates were that this surcharge would
raise £56 million a year, and so would have to keep going for more than
11 years in order to raise the £625 million that Londoners are expected
to contribute.

This is before the inevitable doubling and then trebling of costs seen
in every Olympic bid over the last 40 years. No matter - we'll still be
paying, since Blackstone added "The duration and total cost of the
charge per household would depend on the overall cost of the Games" -
i.e. the more they spend, the more you pay.

The indirect costs to us all, Londoners and others, go into many
billions of pounds on top of that.

It pleases me not to be a wet blanket on a day like this, but I am
appalled at how people have been taken-in by the euphoria and have
failed to look at the costs - if the money involved was spent directly
on sport instead of grandiosity (especially sport at the local and
school level) it would have done so very much more good. Too late now,
of course - however much the builders and planners hike-up the costs, we
can't pull out now (as they very well know).

--
Paul Terry