Gordon Brown, our Prime Minister, is about the same level as Nixon, certain that he's right and that we are all wrong for thinking that he is like Nixon.
Our bid for the Olympics was based on the idea that the whole show would cost about 3 Billion pounds. Then they added the cost of security, then compulsary purchase of properties on site, oh then they remembered that people might actually want to travel to the games, so added a rail link, then they called in 'experts' to make up for their own lack of brains and then hired someone else to do the maths for them at a total of about 6 billion, now we are upto 10 billion and counting.
The design of the main stadium was only finalised a few weeks ago! Most of it is reinforced concrete and I'm waiting for the penny to drop that you don't get fancy shaped concrete beams off the shelf at Walmart.
All this aginst a backdrop of the Police, Prison Officers, and Probation Officers threatening strike action because Brown says he can't afford a 2.5% pay rise whilst Parliament awards itself 10%.
My country is not a happy one this time.
