that has been pilfered to subsidise what in reality is the biggest vanity project on the globe. cheerz I gave up on the olympics when the state gave police the powers to forcibly enter private homes to take down posters critical of the olympics and arrest those who had the gall to put up such subversive materials. Imagine a supranational, multi-billion pound organisation such as the IOC fearing the criticism of an individual having the temerity to put up an anti-olympic poster in their window! The olympics, IOC and everything to do with them deserve nothing but ridicule and contempt. Lets remind ourselves what the tories said at the time these powers were granted: Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a Government who just doesn't understand civil liberties. They may claim these powers won't be used but the frank truth is no one will believe them.' There is something completely perverse about the way governments line up to throw cash at something so utterly unimportant as the Olympics. Its the international relations equivalent of spending thousands of pounds on a handbag, and expecting people to respect you. I think they may expect to receive residual personal benefits, at the cost of the public. We have a very corrupt political class of blue, red and yellow persuasion spending our money like water and being rewarded by those to whom they sell off access and our assets at bargain prices. This county's being eviscerated. I'm pretty sure the private sector