Fine, wonderful.. great... Let's just wait until 2013 and see how many jobs are still there, how much we're still paying for, how much housing goes for and how many facilities are still in use/just being finished......

There are already 3 swimming pools in the borough. Admitedly, none of them are olympic sized, but they are underfunded and badly staffed by sessional workers paid the minimum wage. We have a public transport system that makes it quicker to travel 8 miles into central London than 1 1/2 miles to Stratford from our house.... It's bad enough now, finding a parking space here when West Ham Football club play at home...... what the hell is it going to be like when half the world are trying to find a space? It's all very well for the rest of the country to celebrate and get all excited, they're not the ones losing their businesses or their communities. We've already lost great swathes of land to the Channel Tunnel link (one homeowner went out one morning to find a 15ft hole where his garden used to be....), we can't afford to lose much more.

And given the diversity of the area, it's highly unlikely anything remotely to do with Morris dancing will be involved.

You want the Olympics in your back yard and on your council tax bill? Take 'em... you're f&^$ing welcome to 'em!

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