Closing ceremony

[Winder]

Queen = Yes
Queen featuring Jessie Fecking Jay = NO NO NO NO NO NO.

The whole thing was complete tripe

[NTECUK]

On the whole thought it was a good turn.

Jessie J feat. Queen?? You are fecking kidding me!! Cannot stand her - love Queen! That's just wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!!! How can you spoil a legend like this??? Freddie is turning in his grave!!! I didn't see all of it. Had to go to sleep (up at 4.30am) but as soon as I saw that 12 year old boyband come on.... I thought those were supposed to be icons...?

[Supervox]

Originally Posted by Winder

Queen = Yes
Queen featuring Jessie Fecking Jay = NO NO NO NO NO NO.

The whole thing was complete tripe

Originally Posted by agy

Jessie J feat. Queen?? You are fecking kidding me!! Cannot stand her - love Queen! That's just wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!!! How can you spoil a legend like this??? Freddie is turning in his grave!!!

Well, as a massive Queen fan I thought it worked brilliantly - that girl has a set of pipes on her that I think Freddie would have loved & appreciated.

Blame roger and Brian for trying to continue queen with half the original members... They need to move on - Freddie is dead and sure there was some great music but I doubt very much they would have had such success without him.

[NTECUK]

Poor J J.
She did good .
How many got the hi wire burning hand shake though?

Originally Posted by specialone

What employees? They had to rely on 15000 volunteers who won't be paying any tax on their earnings of £0

then they didnt have any of the millions spent on them did they, those millions were spent elsewhere and my point still stands.

Where the millions were spent, tax was recouped and where UK companies were used almost all goes back to the government in the end. Trade deficit is more concerning than budget.

Originally Posted by specialone

Hardly a drop in the ocean IMO.

the deficit is over £160 billion and thats not even going into the national debt. It's a big drop but a drop nonetheless and as a one of not particularly troublesome in the grand scheme of things.

SP1: if your mortgage lender told you that they would reduce your mortgage by 0.016%, would you get excited about that?

Originally Posted by Spank86

then they didnt have any of the millions spent on them did they, those millions were spent elsewhere and my point still stands.

Where the millions were spent, tax was recouped and where UK companies were used almost all goes back to the government in the end. Trade deficit is more concerning than budget.


the deficit is over £160 billion and thats not even going into the national debt. It's a big drop but a drop nonetheless and as a one of not particularly troublesome in the grand scheme of things.

Mate, with respect, you've been reading too much stuff and getting a biased view by the sound of it, I'm a Tory btw.
Just because the deficit is so large, doesn't mean you justify spending large amounts just because it's not anywhere near the main debt.
You wouldn't carry on spending £1k if you had a £50k credit card bill you couldn't pay would you?
Even if, in your utopia of tax, all the money spent was to stay in this country, only 20% would return to the government so let's not think that's any different.

Local councils are cutting services to save £10k here and £20k there, so don't trivialise £25m, it's a large amount of money.

These games have cost this country way more than we will get back in return whatever the spiel that's put about.

My point still stands, the Olympics would still be good without all this unnecessary extravagance and obscene spending.

Originally Posted by Amadeus

SP1: if your mortgage lender told you that they would reduce your mortgage by 0.016%, would you get excited about that?

Yes, I would actually, but not sure of your point.

Madness, pet shop boys,girating drug addled toilet lurking car crashing has been, Russell brand, talentless half of oasis, ray Davis, ANNIE LENNOX-FFS, the who, "always look on the bright side of life", Brian may wearing a jacket with a fox and a badger on each sleeve!! And Barry from aufvedesein pet doing a Churchill impression to the Germans. Well if that doesn't inspire the young people of the world to take up sport what will?