hugh wrote:

Feel sorry for the council tax payers who have had to pay a supplement
for the past few years but can't get/afford tickets.

Feel sorrier for all the citizens who have paid, and never wanted
tickets, or the sodding olympics, in the first place...

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To people who know nothing, anything is possible.
To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
and how hard it is to achieve it.