A disaster waiting to happen

You can never trust cockneys with anything, especially when it comes to relying on them to organise one of the biggest sporting events in the World.




Ever since Seb Coe bleated on about hosting the Olympics, getting youngsters into sport and the "legacy", the bills have been mounting up.

No sooner had the ink on the contract dried, the swimming pool had suddenly doubled in cost, then the organisers somehow forgot that they would have to pay VAT and now it's thought that the actual cost of hosting the games could reach a staggering £9bn.

So anyway, now the opposition have called for someone to be employed to watch the spending. Presumably they would just sit there watching numbers on a computer screen count up and up but anyway, it must be good work if you can get it.

Oh, but the "legacy", the "legacy" cries Lord Coe.
Well Sebastian, given the shocking state of our Amateur sports facilities, the government's London centric thinking and a complete lack of financial nous, the only "legacy" of the 2012 Olympics will be a crippling debt.