At last the \u2018London Olympics\u2019 are over \u2013 thank God. (Note not the British Olympics). This momentous waste of time\u201a money and inconvenience can at last be consigned to the history books \u2013 just the usual round of awards and knighthoods to bestow on those who have done little in their lives apart from run\u201a throw\u201a swim or ride horses. I am sickened by the constant reference to \u2018Our Heroes\u2019 – what a load of old tosh this is. Heroes my friends\u201a are the guys who lay down their lives for us\u201a Heroes are those who save the life of others at their own peril\u201a Hero\u2019s are those who work all hours God sends to heal and mend\u201a Heroes are those who quietly develop lifesaving drugs and those who look after the sick\u201a those who give their time to help others and ask for no reward. It seemed like every television programme and news-organ was stuffed with long rambling reports (sometimes longer than the event referred to) of \u201cHeroes winning Epic battles\u201d – What a load of old rubbish! Epic is a term given to ancient poetry of a grand nature depicting heroic deeds or feats\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. But I doubt if jumping over a stick really is in this league. The cost of this over-hyped excuse for the government to deflect attention and throw the proletariat a few crumbs of cake in this difficult time\u201a was wholly unjustified and the expenditure accounts of this prodigal pointless exercise could truly be called\u201a in modern parlance\u201a Epic. The original estimate was \u00a32.4bn. Later it was adjusted to \u00a33.3bn then to \u00a39.4bn and on July 26th this year an independent group issued accounts showing a sum of \u00a311.6bn had been spent\u201a with a final figure expected to be in the region of \u00a317bn. Can you imagine any business being \u00a314.6bn out on an initial tender price? Only a UK bank could do this. The government has no money for education\u201a kids leaving school with basic reading and writing skills\u201a no money to keep pensioners off the breadline\u201a no money for job creation\u201a some will go from cot to cemetery without having worked. No money for health care or hospitals. Cut backs everywhere including our armed services \u2013 but for Lord Coe\u2026\u2026\u2026.an open cheque book! Let\u2019s just watch the next comical round of OBE\u2019s and knighthoods for those heroes who won epic contests jumping over sticks and throwing things. I noticed misery-guts Murray actually won something at last yesterday\u201a and he almost smiled\u2026\u2026\u2026 suppose it will be Lord Murray next week in recognition for his new found skills in hitting a ball with a bat and making himself very rich in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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