On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:46:12 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Marcus Houlden wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:35:33 +0100, John Rowland
wrote the following to
uk.media.tv.misc:


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!

Presumably they'll also find out that Seb Coe has a few connections
with it.
The Mcr Commonwealth Games was also organized mainly by a private
company,
Manchester 2002 Ltd, which was owned by Mcr City Council. A lot of
charities
are also incorporated as private limited companies with the directors
listed
as "owners". Nothing suspicious about that; it's just standard
practice in
case the organization goes bust and to give it a legal entity
separate from
the people running it. I would expect the mayor of London and the
Secretary
of State for DCM&S to be named as company directors of LOCOG; it
would be
odd if they weren't.

I don't think they said it's owned by the mayor and the minister, I think
they said it's owned by Ken and Tessa.

However, the programme's attempts to suggest that Seb Coe was doing
something wrong seemed bizarre. If the guy has become a more expensive
after-dinner speaker as a result of his Olympic work, so what? Why should
the public mind?


Would you want to listen to him speak ?