A Benefit To Britain At Any Cost? .........

After a forced absence due to my moving house, (living without an internet connection is both freeing and irritating in equal measure it seems) I'm back with a good old fashioned whinge, and it's about a fairly predictable subject I suppose.

I'm going to have a little moan about the 2012 Olympic budget figures. Now I know there are some out there who think it's a typical British reaction to jump right in with a moan about any sort of big project as soon as it's price goes up, prices always go up right?
You have to expect an increase in the budget of these things right?
The budgets we hear at the beginning of a project can't possibly take changes into consideration can they?

What nonsense. From the announcement of our successful bid for the games, when a budget of £2.4bn, the cost has now risen to a massive £9.35bn, almost quadrupling!

In what sort of lala land is it acceptable for this sort of bare-faced bullshit to take place? Ours apparently.

Are we actually being told that the 2012 Olympics being held in London is a good thing at any cost? If this is the case, could we not have been given an honest budget figure in the first place and allowed to make that decision for ourselves?

I've been in the pro-bid camp all along in so far as the games can shine a very positive light on what I happen to think is the greatest city in the world.

I just wish we could find a way to have this, and most other big build projects that are undertaken these days, managed and budgeted with something resembling a degree of honesty and integrity.
Instead we are treated like some confused granny being fleeced by a dodgy builder, who keeps putting his quote price up once he's already got your roof off.