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Is it too late to call Paris over the LondonOlympics bill?

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Is it too late to call Paris over the LondonOlympics bill?

WHAT joy eh, yet another rise in the bill for the Olympics:

The true cost of the London 2012 Games for the UK taxpayer comes in at over £12 billion, £2.7 bn more than the 9.3bn budget, a Sky investigation has revealed.

And yes, that is 6 times the number the lying scum told us it would be before they bid for the damn foolery. Jeebus, do we really need to pay £12 billion to give athletes a drugs and sex jamboree?

But note that this isn’t the full number either. In fact, this number doesn’t even include the costs of staging the actual games at all.

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Posted: 30th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comment