You have £9 billion to invest

[* ORM *]

Do you

a) Spend it on hosting the Olympics - revealing the true cost once it is too late to do anything about it

b) Spend it on a thousand and one more worthwhile causes ?

 

[MK Shrimper]

9 Billion....hmmm buy Wet Spam and turn it into a carpark. That's a good cause innit? :)

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

9 billion? That's a lot of 3rd world problems solved. (And before you ask, no I wouldn't invest a great deal of it in Orient).

 

[canveyshrimper]

9 billion? That's a lot of 3rd world problems solved. (And before you ask, no I wouldn't invest a great deal of it in Orient).

And I would be buggered if it went to solve 3rd world "problems".

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

On me ... sod everyone else. Look after number one, that's what I say.

 

[Ricey]

What you have got to wonder is will the revnue that the Olympics brings in come anywhere close to the amount spent to make England ready for the 2012 Olympics!!!

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Nowhere near. WSC had a feature in their April 2007 issue about the aftermath of holding a major tournament and observed that many of the multi-million pound stadiums in Portugal, Germany, Japan and Korea are either closed permanently or hosting crowds of less than 2,000 for Tier IV games.

 

[RobM]

:D I'd put it all on a horse - Tripod! :D