"Richard J." wrote in message
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John Rowland wrote:
Despatches wanted to get information from LOCOG, the body which is
delivering the Olympics. LOCOG refused. Despatches demanded the
information under the Freedom Of Information act. LOCOG said that
act doesn't apply to them, because they are a private company!
Despatches then found out that LOCOG is mainly owned by Ken
Livingstone and Tessa Jowell!

I'm not sure what "owned" means in this case. LOCOG is a private company
limited by guarantee without share capital. Probably Livingstone and
Jowell are "members", who are not entitled to any profits that the company
makes.

Did Despatches imply that there was a "gravytrain", or is that your
fantasy?

Dispatches implied that there were lots of gravytrains with
IMHO, little evidence.

The only one that they proved was that Seb Coe has managed
to make a fortune (by most people's standards) from the fame
of being "the man who brought the Olympics to London".
But TBH how could this have been otherwise, if he represents
this persona on his own time, what's the problem. And in any
case, as he already had the fame of being a multi medal world
record holding athlete turned politician, did this extra push
really make that much difference?

tim