CAN LONDONERS NOW BE IN ANY DOUBT ?

WITH THE 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES COSTS ROARING AWAY COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL (from £2.4 billion to £3.8 billion - and now given as £5 billion - next level £8 billion) THE MAYOR OF LONDON WAS ASKED AT A MEETING IN HIS LONDON H.Q. (November 2006) IF THE SOARING COSTS WOULD LEAVE LONDONERS HAVING TO PAY EVEN MORE EXTRA OLYMPIC TAX THAN HAD ALREADY BEEN IMPOSED ON THEM  (10 Years certain - 2 extra years for a £50 million overrun PLUS a share of all the Olympic losses).   THE MAYOR'S REPLY SURPRISED SOME, BUT NOT ALL WHEN HE SAID ;-

" I MAY NOT BE HERE IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS.   ANY GUARANTEE THAT I GIVE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN 2012 IS NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON "

SO MUCH FOR THE "GOOD DEAL FOR LONDONERS" THAT THE MAYOR HAS BEEN TELLING US ABOUT OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WHEN IT WAS JUST THE PRICE OF A "WEEKLY WALNUT WHIP".        WAS THAT "GUARANTEE" WORTH THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON ?       OF COURSE IT WAS - BECAUSE IT SUITED HIM TO SAY SO - NOW IT DOESN'T SUIT SO THERE'S NO GUARANTEE AND ON THE BASIS OF HIS ANSWER NOTHING HE SAYS BETWEEN NOW AND 2012 ABOUT THE COST TO LONDONERS CAN BE BELIEVED - BECAUSE HE MIGHT NOT BE HERE AT THAT TIME.     SO MUCH FOR POLITICIANS EH ?

ANOTHER SURPRISE ANSWER CAME FROM SIR ROY McNULTY, INTERIM CHAIRMAN OF THE OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY, WHO BLANDLY DISMISSED THE ORIGINAL £2.4 BILLION BUDGET AS ;-   " NOTHING MORE THAN A CONCEPT DEVELOPED IN A MATTER OF MONTHS WHEN LONDON WAS PUTING TOGETHER ITS BID FOR 2012 "

AS WELL AS INSULTING THE INTELLIGENCE OF LONDONERS THESE ANSWERS ILLUSTRATE THE CONTEMPT THESE PEOPLE HAVE FOR US.      FROM A £2.4 BILLION BUDGET (with assurances from Tessa Jowell and Lord Seb Coe - don't laugh) TO £5 BILLION AND STILL RISING, THE LONDON OLYMPICS IS WELL ON THE WAY TO SETTING AN OLYMPIC COSTS RECORD TO BEAT THE ATHENS GAMES WHICH COST £9 BILLION.

SURELY, WE CANNOT, IN ALL HONESTY (a word we haven't heard, or seen too much of in connection with the 2012 London Games) ALLOW THESE PEOPLE TO CARRY LONDONERS INTO HUGE DEBTS ON THE BACK OF THEIR MISCALCULATED "CONCEPTS"  - "NON GUARANTEES, AND "DODGY DOCUMENTS".

MAKE A STAND IN JANUARY 2007 BY CANCELLING YOUR DIRECT DEBIT AFTER THE DECEMBER 2006 PAYMENT, AND THEN PAY THE JANUARY 2007 COUNCIL TAX PAYMENT BY CASH OR CHEQUE -MINUS THE OLYMPIC TAX FOR THE CURRENT YEAR I.E. A "D" BAND HOUSE = £20  (See Section 4 for your Council Tax Band Olympic Charge)).

MAKE NO MISTAKE - THE 2012 LONDON GAMES COSTS WILL INCREASE AT AN EVEN FASTER RATE THE NEARER WE GET TO THEM- AND THE SAME RATE OF INCREASE WILL APPLY TO THE DEBTS LONDONERS WILL BE LUMBERED WITH AFTER THE MONEYMEN, DEVELOPERS, BUILDERS AND ALL OTHER VESTED INTERESTS HAVE BANKED THEIR PROFITS AND MOVED ON.        SAY " NO" "NO" "NO" AND MAKE A STAND ON JANUARY 2007.