I am personally rubbing my hands with glee at seeing this crap government get yet another thing wrong. Why don't they hold it in the Dome, another monument to government profligacy? Still it's not their money is it, so what do they care?
Politicians have become less and less accountable over the years, and of course the public's belief/trust in them has declined proportionately during that time.
This government was elected by something like 13% of the registered voters in this country, when will people get out and put their X on a ballot paper? We should make voting compulsory.
Also, why did it have to be in London in the first place? It could have been built somewhere nearer the centre of the UK, so that more people have a chance of getting to see it, instead of this constant Londoncentric crap, that seems to assume that there is no life outside the M25.
As for robbing Lottery Funds to finance it, well that's the final insult. That money is supposed to be for good causes, not lost ones!
Giok