The London Olympics 2012

This Rant started life as a letter to a friend in the UK, However, I feared he would think it directed against him and so it is a Blog that nobody will ever read instead. Nevertheless I feel better! My thanks to Henry Chu of the LA Times for stirring my passion. 




 The LA Times gave a half page on page 3 over to the London Olympics this morning (07/13/2012). More to the point, the main thrust of the article was a catalogue of the failures already apparent, weeks before they even begin. Reading the article by an LA Staff reporter, I tried to forget that this was my home for the better part of 30 years and look on it as I would if it were in " A far away Country of which we know nothing" as Chamberlain said of Sudetenland in 1938. My conclusion is that London and indeed the whole UK is a part of the greater third world. Greater because it includes stupidity as well as poverty. 




The success of London's bid for the 2012 Olympics was announced to the world on July 6th 2005, 7 years and 1 week ago today. Yet here are some of the problems still being discussed with only 2 weeks left! The closure of the M4 Motorway,(did no one think to check Bridges etc in say 2006?) the inability of authorities to re -open it in time or even at the promised time. The inability of trained security staff to locate guns and bombs planted on volunteers. The misuse of Her Majesty's Armed Forces as guards because the guards could not guard a flock of sheep. The construction of so many open air stadia in spite of the fact that it has been known to rain in the UK in Summer. The rip off prices for food and drink within the Stadia and the refusal to allow people to source their own food. The debacle over who will get the Olympic Stadium afterwards. The pathetic performance of the Home Secretary in the Commons yesterday. The equally pathetic daily performance of the "Leader of the Opposition" How could anyone ever vote Labour with that schoolboy in charge? And on and on and on............. A big thank you to the UK Government, Terrorists, would be Terrorists and NIMBYs who have done so much to make my former homeland look as if populated by a  bunch of amateur Jobsworths in a world of industrialized and civilized countries NOT run by morons dictated to by the mores of political correctness. 




I do not take kindly to being made to look an idiot by virtue of the publicity inspired by that inept bunch back there in Middle Earth. Did you know you could drop the whole UK into the State of Michigan, merely 1 of 50. Or Texas where nobody would even notice? Perhaps that is what should happen to the whole sorry place. God help the British Citizens who work or try to work for a living instead of expecting handouts. This is the nation that formed the greatest Empire of the modern world, that dominated the waves that gave birth to the modern world with the Industrial Revolution. My God they must all be spinning in their graves. My compliments to Mr. Nigel Farrange, the sooner you and the United Kingdom Independence Party take over the better. 




 End of Rant! 




http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-olympic-woes-20120713,0,3123925.story