On 25/05/2010 19:10, Mizter T wrote:

On May 25, 6:20 pm, Arthur wrote:

As for the Olympics, I thought the argument was that absolutely everyone
in the country outside London wanted them, it was just tight-fisted
killjoy London taxpayers who didn't, and that was why were lumbered with
them...

So that's the Figgis take on it... I see!

Being boring, my (slightly more serious) take is that many Londoners
were keen on the idea of it during the bidding phase, but as time has
past a significant number have gone somewhat colder on it all.

Admittedly many of the sort of people I know are the sort who probably
aren't going to be too enthusiastic anyway. And I suspect if you grabbed
figgis 2 and his mates as they came out of a stadium and asked what they
think of Velaro-D services to Stratford the response might not be great
either :-)

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK