here is another scam and anyone who shares my concern about the accelerating cost of the London Olympic Games should read in full the article by Simon Jenkins in today's Guardian entitiled "Jowell and Coe have been duped by the biggest overselling scam in history
Two drug-rehabilitation centres in south London closing for want of lottery funds. Hampton's swimming pool has been rejected, as has a disabled centre in Kingston and a children's hospice in Kent. Jowell is frantically selling off bits of Regent's Park to raise funds. The Olympics are like the ID cards computer, the Eurofighter and the Afghan war - billion-pound projects which politicians know they should have stifled at birth.
