Curiosity wrote:
So some of the most deprived areas in the country should be ignored because some people have a senseless aversion to the capital?
Somebody's getting a little defensive
London has a very annoying self-fulfilling prophesy of itself. London is big, loads of people are in London, so everyone does stuff in London for those reasons. London gets bigger, has more people, has more businesses, so more things happen there, and so on. This has created an enormous skew of wealth and population distribution that greatly favours the whole south eastern zone of the country. That would be bad enough if London wasn't also filled with people who think London and everything about it is just fucking
dandy.
London might have poor areas, but there are jobs, business, wealth, and opportunity. You might be poor, living in a crap area, but at least these things exist in a way that is accessible to those that seek it. Compare that with places where there's fuck all jobs, fuck all industry, and fuck all opportunity without moving to somewhere like, oooh, say, London, and you'll see why I struggle to align with your argument that London needed the Olympics more than anywhere else.
But I digress. Regardless of my personal view of England's capital (I've got my own which is much nicer, cheers), the fact remains that the Olympic wealth could have gone to a much more worthy area.
Cavey is also right - no excuses should be needed but the whole thing is an international dick-swinging farce anyway. How much will those opening ceremonies fireworks cost? Fireworks are shit too. Do we need them? What for? What could that money have better been spent on? Etc.