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Originally Posted by martyh
What is the best possible use of the money? ,also what money are on about ?
The article i linked to is about the benefits of the Olympics to UKplc and the contracts awarded to uk companies on the back of the Olympics build success
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the article is about trying to justify the money spent for the olympics being hosted.
Don't be fooled that it isn't for that purpose.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
For the Army to take over some of the duties of G4S was easy, as they didn't have to jump through the various hoops that G4S had to. Eg Security clearance, finding many temporary staff.
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the other things they didn't need to worry about...giving an accurate bid for the contract etc
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Originally Posted by Damien
Does it really matter too much if we get an economic benefit? Surely it was worth it. The Olympics were amazing even if we lost money, you do lose money doing nice things sometimes. The question should be if the cost was worth what you got and it certainly was, imo, with the Olympics. It hard a hard job convincing people who were so set against it but from the Opening Ceremony onwards it was a great success. Even the failure of G4S to be competent turned out to be a good thing since the army did a great job. The Olympic park was an amazing place to be. We did well in the medals. We also had the best Paralympic Games ever. In China they had to give away the tickets and the athletes still mostly played to empty stadiums. Here the tickets often sold out, the events were shown in prime time and all the time.
If you don't think we did an excellent job of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic games you've got a screw loose.
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Are you seriously saying this was the best use of the money?
It was a vanity project, that the government is doing its best to justify.
The few who benefited will be the hogs who organise the olympics (to get their back handers) and the large corporations