Is it all down to money?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ng-sponsors-toes.html

It doesn't seem to matter how lax the security is at the Olympics just so long as you are not caught selling the good old British chip when you should be selling the MacDonald's fries.

[Gromit]

// The GLA is contributing £925 million to the Olympic Delivery Authority. This money will be spent on the regeneration, infrastructure and facilities that will continue to benefit Londoners for generations to come. //

http://www.london2012.com/about-us/funding/

Sounds like a good deal for Londoners.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// I am guessing you do not want the taxpayer to fund the Olympics. So they have to pay for it through sponsorship. ///

Do you really think that the Olympics are not going to cost the taxpayer anything?

http://www.guardian.c...pic-games-budget-cost

/// Hodge said: "Taking into account costs outside the package, the full cost to the public of the Games and legacy projects is already heading for around £11bn." ///

http://www.mirror.co....f-the-olympics-867076

[Playbill]

Why didn't they get the sponsors to come up with the £9 billion announced for upgrading the rail network this morning? They could then serve their junk food on the trains and flog their unwanted c**p at the stations.

Plus, the olympic 'family' could have travelled in by train instead of closing miles of roads and building Zil lanes with dire penalties for transgressors.

Oh hell, I have just typed the word olympic - so must expect a knock on my door very soon.

[emmie]

Gromit, you don't really believe that b*lls**t do you, benefit Londoners, not a hope in hell. As to corporate sponsorship, what worse companies could you pick than Coca Cola and McDonalds to represent sport, for fecks sake.

[webbo3]

according to sky you can sell chips as long as they are served with fish, so all the traders have to do is serve a piece of whitebait with their chips, there could also be a loophole as McDonalds sell "fries" and not chips.

http://news.sky.com/s...-off-menu-at-olympics


Dave.

[emmie]

dave, good point, funny too...

[Answerprancer]

Some local activists (?) have sabotaged a hoarding near where I live.
The (approx 100' long) hoarding was blank up till earlier today, I assume it is awaiting posters advertising Muckdonalds and PukaCola, now it has lots of 'trinkets' attached to it - old sculptures, picture frames, wooden toys etc, I think this is hilarious.