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Published Date: 05 September 2008
MOST Britons believe the government is incapable of managing the 2012 Olympics. Only 11 per cent of those questioned in a survey said the government was up to running the project.
The study, by Opinium Research, questioned 2,000 British adults before and after the Olympic Games in Beijing.

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  • Last Updated: 04 September 2008 10:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: London Olympics 2012
 
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05/09/2008 00:45:05
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Cappo Del Monte,

05/09/2008 07:30:41
Can anyone back this story up, on the way to work this morning the radio was reporting that the super expensive main stadium will be demolished after the games and a possible new stadium for spurs built on the spot ( It was virgin radio )
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sam the god,

05/09/2008 08:10:08
The government are not fit to govern full stop.
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IanW,

Otto 05/09/2008 08:30:25
And here was me thinking that the Olympics in London were to be managed by the organising committee headed by Lord Coe and funded by everybody else for his glorification.

Joseph #1 - I certainly would not bet on it coming in at less than £20bn. Brown and his cronies will demand that we match the Chinese so they will throw good money after bad at it.

Does anyone know why part of the so-called London olympics are to be held in Scotland? I wonder whether devolution should have put a stop to this. It is an ENGLISH olympic bid, and I for one do not want to have to pay for something where I would get NO benefit, and I doubt if Scotland would either as the world tends to consider England as Great Britain so only England would get the kudos for any success.
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Guga II,

Rockall 05/09/2008 10:56:57
When the English got the Olympics, I said that the final cost would be nearer to £30 billion. I still say that.

Anyway, as long as they continue to pursue illegal wars we should boycott the English Olympics.

Also, as long as Scotland is lumped in as part of the English team, and doesn't have its own team, we should boycott the English Olympics.
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danbob,

05/09/2008 11:15:59
Guga 6# Perhaps we should hold a hot air balloon filling competition in 2012. That way Scotland would win everything by entering Guga, and all the other wafflers. You boycott whatever you want to Guga. Hoy and his olympic winning teamates won't though, There the ones that matter not you.
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Guga II,

Rockall 05/09/2008 11:29:16
#7. Are you one of the parcel of rogues, or just a foreigner?
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danbob,

05/09/2008 12:04:01
8# The problem with people like you is that you cannot hide the ugly hate that you peddle. Anyone who dares to disagree with a nationalist viewpoint is a rogue or a foreigner. I wonder how the two million scots who live and work in England would like the English to peddle the hate at them like you do? Now where have we heard this nationalist hate before? Zimbabwe, Russia, Serbia, Cuba, Sudan, Rawanda,
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The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 05/09/2008 16:31:57
This government won't be around never mind being up to the Olympics. If truth be told they couldn't run a raffle.
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Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 05/09/2008 16:54:51
By the time 2012 comes around, stupid labour will be long gone...

...and it will once again fall to the Tories to get the country out of the mess they have created, in every respect, including the Olympics.

The longer this daft idea goes ahead, the more difficult it will be to cancel it. Scrap it now. We neither need nor want this ridiculously expensive terrorist target which will leave us with a white elephant.
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subrosa,

05/09/2008 23:27:24
# 6 Guga
'Also, as long as Scotland is lumped in as part of the English team, and doesn't have its own team, we should boycott the English Olympics.'

Boycott? Do you know the price to get to London from here? I could fly to Canada on an upgrade for far less then it would cost me to go to these olympics for a couple of days.

So no need for a boycott here!

 

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