NOT JUST LONDON
FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE DEBATE ON THE LONDON OLYMPICS BILL THE 35 PAGES CAN BE READ OR DOWNLOADED FROM - THEY WORK FOR YOU.COM - AND THEN SELECT - HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE - THURSDAY 21st JULY 2005 - ORDER OF THE DAY - LONDON OLYMPICS BILL. READ WHAT YOUR MP SAID, IF HE/SHE SAID ANYTHING AT ALL DURING THE DEBATE (OR WERE THEY CONVENIENTLY ABSENT) SEE HOW MP'S FROM OUTSIDE LONDON TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUSH THE MERITS OF THEIR CONSTITUENCIES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN MAXIMUM BENEFITS FROM THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES, IN THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR CONSTITUENTS HAD NO EXTRA OLYMPIC TAX TO WORRY ABOUT FOR THE NEXT 10/12 YEARS - OR ABOUT ANY OF THE LOSSES.
WITH THE LONDON MAYOR ELECTIONS COMING UP IN MAY 2008 LONDONERS WHO OBJECT TO THIS ONE SIDED, UNREASONABLE, UNFAIR, OLYMPIC 10/12 YEAR TAX, SHOULD TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF VOTING OUT THE PRESENT MAYOR - BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE THAT ACCEPTED, ON BEHALF OF SEVEN MILLION LONDONERS, THIS EXTRA TAX. WITH HIS £137,579 SALARY (according to wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), HE CAN AFFORD IT, MILLIONS OF LONDONERS CAN'T.
(If , when discussing this matter with any local Councillors, they should tell you that they have to pay it as well - remind them that their Council Allowances more than help them to pay this extra tax - allowances that all come out of our ever increasing Council Tax, so the extra Olympic Tax presents no problems at all for any for them
The same applies to our over paid Members of Parliament, who not only voted for this extra tax on Londoners but also VOTED AGAINST an amendment which would have limited (capped) any losses that Londoners, and only Londoners, will be lumbered with.
WE'VE ELECTED A NEW LONDON MAYOR SO AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION LET'S KICK OUT THOSE LONDON M.P.s WHO FAILED TO LOOK AFTER THE INTEREST OF LONDONERS.