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Originally Posted by onan_mann  Aside from poor spelling, your post is sickening, but I will give you the benefit of doubt, hoping you meant it in jest. |
I doubt it.
Regardless of the fact that the 2012 games will end up
costing about £10bn - latest budget is £9.35bn - which started at about £3.4bn. Over half of which is taxpayer funded.
This is against (hard to find) estimated revenues of:
- Tourism £2bn
- TV rights £2bn
- Merchandising ...£?
Very little of which will filter down to those actually footing the bill. But it will trigger regeneration and improvements in public transport and infrastructure, but wait - we're paying for those too.
It would be cheaper for the UK to 'free' Tibet. I'm not advocating it, merely comparing value for money.
