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[Ziwa]

Crystal Palace Park should sue the Lea Valley and the Olympics for lost amenity and lost opportunity costs.

[Dazza]

Like moving a stadium on the Park ?

Can see the clipboard brigade with an entire row of pens & pencils in their top pocket now !

Dazza

[Summit Lover]

Like moving a stadium on the Park ?

Can see the clipboard brigade with an entire row of pens & pencils in their top pocket now !

Dazza

Would that be a football stadium eh Dazza?

[RetiredMember2]

With additional costs associated costs that can't be pinpointed, Olympic spending could be anywhere between £11.66bn and £23.76bn. Yes, it's great the the East End of London is benefitting from investment however I remain unconvinced by the claims that the Olympic Games will bring Olympian dividends to the UK. An extra £2.36 bn of public money is being spent on the Olympics, taking the true cost to the taxpayer of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to£11..66 bn. It is difficult to see how takings will meet, let alone exceed, costs.

The point about the Lea Valley Authority is this: Londoners are currently committeed to a £625m contribution to LVP however the passover of Olympic responsibilty to the LVA means there is now real potential for the LVA to increase this levy to meet the massive Olympic overspends. Londoners will be paying for the pleasure of the games for many years to come.

Good to read that Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham are beginning to question the viability of the arrangement.

A HISTORIC town hall tax that funds a nature reserve many residents have never visited is being called into question. Councils across the capital are funding the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) in north and east London, Essex and Hertfordshire to the tune of almost £12million a year.
Now authorities in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, which this year paid £867,000 in a levy to the LVRPA, are questioning the
payments at a time when their funding is being cut by the Government.
The payment scheme was set up to fund improvements to the 10,000-acre nature reserve, which was established under an Act of Parliament in 1966.
Today, the park authority owns 20 per cent of the Olympic Park in Stratford, and has received multimillion-pound payments from the Olympic Delivery Authority. The park will play host to the Olympic white water centre.
After the Games, the LVRPA will also run hockey and tennis centres and the cycling Velodrome in Stratford. Lambeth council needed to save £37m last year and a further £29m this year following Government cuts.
The savings target has led to council job losses and spending on street cleaning and public parks reduced.
Yet in the past three financial years, it has paid £946,000 to the LVRPA.
Town hall leader Councillor Steve Reed, told the South London Press: “It seems highly questionable that Lambeth’s money is being used to pay for a park the other side of London that most South Londoners have never heard of.
http://www.slp.co.uk...%80%99t%20ours?

[RetiredMember2]

Well, we're getting set for showtime but what's going down with the urban missiles sites? "Such are the scale of the counter-terror operations being launched in the build up to this year's 2012 London Olympics that the UK MoD has proposed deploying missile sites atop towers and buildings in several urban London boroughs for the first time since World War II." http://www.army-tech...counter-terror/

Little wonder the budget's gone nuclear but what's the logic behind positioning of Ground Based Air Defence Systems in densely populated areas? A successful strike will result in the target being brought down over residential areas in the vicinity of Blackheath Common and Oxleas Wood in south east London, and at William Girling Reservoir Chain in Enfield and Barn Hill at Netherhouse Farm in Epping Forest.

Once an enemy target is identified missiles are "guided towards the target at speed in excess of Mach 2.5 by passive infrared line of sight and active command to radar line of sight. The automatic reaction time is less than 5s and a second target engagement takes less than 3s." Mach 2 is twice the speed of sound so mach 2.5 is pdq! The collison with any incoming target will be significant - like wise the fallout from the hit.

[Canon]

Anyone had any luck so far in this round of tickets, again everything I've gone for is not available. Share this must have its own thread, but using the search functioned resulted in no results for the word Olmypic.

[Sidney Ruff-Diamond]

Well, we're getting set for showtime but what's going down with the urban missiles sites?

MoD unveils surface-to-air cockneys...

http://www.thedailym...ys-201204305175

Edited by Sidney Ruff-Diamond, 14 May 2012 - 11:23 AM.

[Dazza]

Someone now may actually have a rocket up their axxx in the olympics !

Now that would be real interesting firework display !

Edited by Summit Lover, 14 May 2012 - 12:02 PM.

[Senor Buckethead]

MoD unveils surface-to-air cockneys...

http://www.thedailym...ys-201204305175

I'm all in favour of using Cockneys as missiles, mainly because I wasn't born within the sound of Bow bells, in fact miles and miles from there.
However, I am a great believer that leaders should lead their own in to battle (a bit like Blair should have gone in to Iraq (and not come back)) so hopefully the first wave will consist of Pearly Kings and Queens - all those buttons make for a lot of shrapnel! This is all before Phillip Hammond makes a U turn and opts to use the cheaper SAS - the dreaded Surface to Air Scousers.

[St. Lukes Railings]

As a londoner and from east London im a bit offended by that. But I'm fair game

[RetiredMember2]

I'm all in favour of using Cockneys as missiles...This is all before Phillip Hammond makes a U turn and opts to use the cheaper SAS - the dreaded Surface to Air Scousers.

Local missiles for local people Senor? Yours and Sir Ruff- Diamond's Olympic Defence Systems make the Cuban missile crisis look like a virtual Tea Party.

Never mind the Cockneys and Scousers I'm more concerned about the Mujahideen. If I was a bearded gentleman of a certain disposition then I'd have already sourced meself a lauchpad, somewhere high up, somewhere with a great view of London and somewhere with excellent telecommunications signals, from where I could disguise me hardware as a landfill recovery vehcile (LRV) and then just like a Thunderbird I'd park up and launch me attack with one of these:

[Senor Buckethead]

That's no rocket launcher CM. That's a delivery lorry with a consignment of flues for the new incinerator (sorry to cross threads again). Hasn't Beddington Lane improved?

Back to missiles and Olympics - beginning to feel that after 40 years, since Munich '72 it's all beginning to make me feel is it all worth it? Since then everyone has been 'aware' of a threat, but I guess 9/11 made the Western superpowers targets, particularly US and UK. Now the setting up of 'defensive' missile banks and those potential tubes manned by bearded (bit of profiling there) blokes implies a pitched battle in the offing.

Goes without saying, we don't want an incident, but 40 yrs on and with the unresolved issues of the world being taken to the Games and will continue to be until they make a real impact.

How long before we hear the IOC chief announcing, ….. opening envelope… - "the Games are awarded to....... "the city of - Tel Aviv"

I'm all in favour of wrapping them up, the Games that is, and it's not giving in to the terrorists, it's a big big very expensive bore, and the athletes and the drugs cheats debate is just beginning to wind up.... Apart from that - come on GB!

[RetiredMember1]

those potential tubes manned by bearded (bit of profiling there) blokes implies a pitched battle in the offing.

Did I miss something? Don't understand this reference.

[Archie]

I think Bob Crow and his merry men will do more damage than any terrorist!

[Senor Buckethead]

Did I miss something? Don't understand this reference.

..was referring to Citizen M's Scud launcher - "Never mind the Cockneys and Scousers I'm more concerned about the Mujahideen. If I was a bearded gentleman of a certain disposition then I'd have already sourced meself a lauchpad"