I'm not really part of the tin foil hat brigade when it comes to the advertising at the Olympics. I don't like being advertised to, but I certainly don't think they wanted the olympics so that they could advertise on behalf of corporations instead of some other country. Someone was always going to host it. It's just a way of offsetting the ridiculous cost of all of those stadiums that need to be built because people from almost every country in the world will be coming here to spectate and take part. I mean when they awarded it to us there were several other countries representatives crying - do you think they were crying because they didn't get to plaster McDonalds logos all over their major cities or what?
I wasn't trying to say that but rather using McDonalds & Coca-Cola as easily recognisable emblems of the enormous corporate-agenda which goes hand-in-hand with modern international sporting events and really I suppose my core message or point I wished to make was that not only had I reached saturation point vis-a-vis all things Olympic-related in this country (and we have after all been hearing about this Olympics in the U.K. since before London was even nominated) but that I felt it was morally dubious how vast amounts (certainly hundreds of millions of pounds) of taxpayers money have been spent on this at the same time as we have gone into recession and now scores of building works in schools up and down the country have been put on hold indefinitely or cancelled altogether along with numerous other cuts to public services.......... and I was merely making the point that it worried me how the masses have accepted this obscene state-of-affairs en masse and without question and this worries and depresses me.
That's all (folks)....