Games for Everyone?
A bit of a tongue-in-cheek London-centric view of the latest Olympic kerfuffle…
The Olympic lottery game is launched tomorrow, with the hope that money raised from the sale of the scratchcards will go towards funding the Games. That money will join up with the massive contribution Londoners are making through their council tax payments over the next few years. But is it fair?
The original argument for the council tax levy was that Londoners will benefit most from the Olympics coming to the capital in 2012, so they should pay for it.
Now though every time I see any coverage, we’re told we shouldn’t think of this as the London Games but as an Olympics for the whole country. So shouldn’t the whole country pay?
The only other solution I can think of is that we should build an Olympic wall around the city and not let anybody else in.
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