Results tagged “London” from Birmingham Post - News Blog

I bet you're thinking to yourself, this has all been done before. Complaining about the Olympics is nothing new. Well I don't care, I'm going to do it again.

The Olympics is a gloriously obscene, corrupt, grotesque, pointless, wasteful woolly white mammoth of an event.

I was at a meeting of the West Midlands Police Authority today, the body that oversees the actions of the local force. A group of top cops and politicians all talking about how the police force will pay for the extra effort of the London 2012 Olympics.

What a waste of Midlanders' money. And what a waste of police officers - officers previously in action in Birmingham will be taken down to London to help out the Met.

I don't know about you but the results of the London mayoral elections scare me a little.

If Boris Johnson - a celebrity upper middle class buffoon - can take the crown, then there is something deeply disconcerting about the system which enables such a political light weight to take the centre stage.

Shouldn't his victory ring alarm bells for those keen to impose the same mayoral system for Birmingham and all other British cities?

Thursday is the big day for the politicians as the nation goes to the polls in the local elections.

But they're going to have to wait for the result Westminster is most interested in, the winner of the London mayoral election.

Like it or not, the battle to run the capital is going to be seen as the most important election this week. If Ken Livingstone holds it for Labour, Gordon Brown's MPs will receive a morale boost which may make his life a little easier. If Boris storms home for the Tories, David Cameron's party will look a step closer to winning a General Election.

Skimming through the BNP website to check claims that the BNP has urged their supporters to pick Tory Boris Johnson as their second choice in London's Mayoral elections (it's true), I came across this gem of a policy:

"Offer the Olympics to Greece. The BNP opposed the Olympic bid four years ago. We said it would be inordinately expensive and a logistical nightmare and we have been proved right, as usual.

"Furthermore, the BNP is the party of heritage and tradition - not only for Britain but for all countries. The Olympics are part of Greece's heritage and we therefore believe they should be held there permanently. We will therefore offer the 2012 Olympics to Athens."

Poor Boris.