All the heavy stuff a aggregates for the building work to be brought in by water through the canal system new tidal locks at Bow. More work for local people? most of the promises where not to be! Much of the work on the site was done by migrant workers from the European union. most of the sponsoring company's are not British and the profits made will not be benifiting people here. The Bulk of the profit will be leaving the country.
The bulk of the British workers on the Olympics have been people employed at the basic living wage or as volunteers The biggest percentage of the population around the Olympic park do not have the expendable capital to afford an Olympic ticket as the percentage of unemployed people in the surrounding boroughs is the highest in London and possible among the highest in the whole of the UK.
The wind turbines to provide all the electricity for thew park where dropped. It is true to say that the project has cleaned up and cleared a large area of polluted land it has also taken a lot of facilities away from local people and we have yet to see if those facilities are returned or replaced for the local people.
The Olympics are a pagan ceremony to worship the ancient Gods of Mount Olympus during the original games lives would be lost as the games progressed these where seen as sacrifices to the gods. Interestingly enough among my group of friends and acquaintances these games have so far cost two lives one young lad stabbed in a case of mistaken identity in the week before in the security step up around the park . The other knocked off his bike by an Olympic Bus.
I have put up a few pictures of the original view from Stratford station before the Olympic park was built.
From my own personal point of view I actually enjoy the Olympics and the sport the opening ceremony was a real good message to the world to reminding them what we the long suffering British people have given to the rest of the world we restarted the Olympics for better or worse from what can only be described as our village sports days and games. We also gave the world wide web responsible for the current Arabic spring and to some extent the bringing down of many tyrannical governments over the last half century around the globe and the birth of many fledgling democracy's.
