Olympics feelgood factor.

[Mad Cyril]

With even the Daily Mail proclaiming that it is great to be British how long after the Beijing Olympic flame is extinguished will it take for us to return to living in "Broken Britain" and be subjected to daily stories about economic disaster and spiralling violent crime?

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

With even the Daily Mail proclaiming that it is great to be British how long many days after the Beijing Olympic flame is extinguished will it take for us to return to living in "Broken Britain" and be subjected to daily stories about economic disaster and spiralling violent crime?

I'll give it 3 days.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

3 hours 21 minutes 03 seconds

 

[WestRoadShrimper]

I reckon Sports Personality - it'll all start to die down, then the Beeb will talk about voting and everyone will start reminiscing (sp?)

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

About 5 mins after Team GB are back in the UK. They have done great but the excitement wont last.

Its on a par with tennis racquet sales during wimbledon.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I'll give it a week at the most.

 

[Desert Shrimper]

They re-named Tessa Sanderson Way "Hainault Road" in 2001 and thus cast aside the amazing Olympic achievement of one of our greatest ever athlestes a mere 17 years after the event. Disgraceful.

 

[Uncle Leo]

It'll all be great until they have an official reception with Gordon Brown. The minute any of them are photographed next to him they'll be jinxed for life.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

It'll all be great until they have an official reception with Gordon Brown. The minute any of them are photographed next to him they'll be jinxed for life.

I'm surprised the Tories aren't making more of our Olympic success, afterall virtually all our medals have been in cycling, where our brave Olympians were clearly inspired by Cameron and Boris. The only cyclist not to win a medal was Cav, who as a Manx wouldn't follow Parliament.

 

[Pubey]

I'm surprised the Tories aren't making more of our Olympic success, afterall virtually all our medals have been in cycling, where our brave Olympians were clearly inspired by Cameron and Boris. The only cyclist not to win a medal was Cav, who as a Manx wouldn't follow Parliament.

arguably John Major should take most of the credit - he introduced the National Lottery

 

[Uncle Leo]

I'm surprised the Tories aren't making more of our Olympic success, afterall virtually all our medals have been in cycling, where our brave Olympians were clearly inspired by Cameron and Boris. The only cyclist not to win a medal was Cav, who as a Manx wouldn't follow Parliament.

Or indeed Norman Tebbit. He was the one who told us to get on our bikes.