Let the spins begin!

Battle of the rhubarb

'Why are they destroying our 100-year-old allotments to make way for the 'Green Olympics'?'

Hype. Spin. Ambition. Greed. Targets. Cowardice. Obfuscation. Lack of oversight. No accountability. Media with eyes only on tomorrow's headline (All for the competition to the point it's won, then all down on it once the consequences they should have reported upon sink in... or make new stories)... er, etc

And sod all to do with the environment.

A billion £ con, and so far how many posts?

Maybe we're wrong, then.

BBC - London Olympics could cost £9bn
Telegraph - 'Brown to blame for 2012 Olympics costs'
Telegraph - The real cost of the Olympics

And who, if ever, will get called to account in tangible terms if this is, as seems likely, borne out?

Where there is no accountability there is no responsibility.

And where there is no responsibility there is no reason to serve any measure but self-interest.

Telegraph - Olympics budget set at £5bn in bid to end row - Nice to see it has been 'set' .. at last
Guardian - The show must go on
Telegraph - Olympic budget trebles to £9.3bn - look back two lines. And how many days?
Indy - Jowell: cost of Olympics has tripled to £9bn - not just the right wing stirring, then
Indy - The cost of victory
Indy - Tessa's going for the gold in Olympic chicanery
Newsnight - Thursday, 15 March, 2007