London wins Olympics: and now interviewers start saying “Yes, but..”
OK, so I’m the patron saint of lost causes. London gets the Olympics in 2012.
But is it just me or is it weird to be listening to the 1 O’Clock News and hear the interviewer start asking questions to the MP for Newham, such as “Won’t you be left with a lot of white elephant stadiums afterwards? I mean that’s what has happened at all the other places..” and to get interviewees saying “I’m not really sure that’s the best use of £2.4 billion…”
Where were all these people before? Steamrollered into submission, told to keep a lid on it until the bid was over? Inquiring minds would like to know. Especially since it’s so easy to find them now, apparently. Here’s some reaction on the BBC website from ordinary folk. (Now let them wait until they see their council tax bills five years hence, and try to go and play football on Hackney Marshes in a couple of years..)
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
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July 7th, 2005 at 1:36 am
You should have been at the Guardian when the announcement was made. I’ve never heard so many normally intelligent people talk such crap. You’d think they’d forgotten all about the millennium dome. Bread and circuses . . .
November 29th, 2006 at 12:57 am
[…] how weird it was that nobody asked the “Yes, but” questions before the Olympic bid (July 6 2005): is it just me or is it weird to be listening to the 1 O’Clock News and hear the interviewer start asking questions to the MP for Newham, such as “Won’t you be left with a lot of white elephant stadiums afterwards? I mean that’s what has happened at all the other places..” and to get interviewees saying “I’m not really sure that’s the best use of £2.4 billion…” Where were all these people before? Steamrollered into submission, told to keep a lid on it until the bid was over? […]