Frank Erskine wrote:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:07:27 +0000, hugh ] wrote:

In message , Bill Wright
writes
Windmill wrote:

But we're currently paying in part for London's Olympics, which will
make a profit for London as a result of the tourism, but will do little
or nothing for Scotland.
Or Yorkshire! They should have had the Olympics nationwide, using the
facilities already existing.

My main thoughts are for the small business thrown off their premises
in East London, just for a silly sport event. It's an outrage.

Bill
The Olympics are awarded to a city not a country.

So why should the UK's taxpayers pay for them, rather than just
Londoners?


same reason UK taxpayers pay for all the old benefit infested industrial
towns to vote labour.

Because some people believed in Blair.

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