Yorkshire regiment march through Bradford

Chris has returned from London with his big green G4S Olympic security uniform & it looks like some of these guys fresh from Afghanistan will be joining him!

I can't post a picture of the uniform probably for the same reason you can only buy chips from McDonalds & will have non sponsored items confiscated if you enter the stadium with them. Makes me hate multi nationals even more!

Apparently they interviewed 100 thousand people but only 10 thousand made it through and of those many dropped out leaving 7 thousand topped up by 3 thousand from the army!

7 years they've had to prepare for this event & May says its not a shambles lol

Again Im not anti Olympics (who cannot be impressed by the athletes drive & dedication) but I'm against the fact it's become just a big PR & money making exercise for the multinationals!

Great comment from the guardian about the corporate lockdown of the event with some good suggestions as to how to prevent corporations hijacking the games.

...It's billed as the greatest show on earth. But the closer you get to the London stadium that will be the centre of the Olympic Games in just over a fortnight's time, the more it's starting to look like a militarised occupation zone...

...the scale and visibility of the London operations, including powers to crack down on protest and even remove critical posters from private homes, go far beyond the demands of any potential threat...

...49% of people in London and 53% in the rest of the country say they're not interested in the Olympics...

...given the snaffling of most of the best tickets by sponsors and Olympic officials, along with the daily affront of VIP lanes for fleets of chauffeur-driven cars, many Londoners in particular are bound to see the Games as having very little to do with them...

...we have Coca-Cola, Cadbury's, Heineken and McDonald's sponsoring and branding a movement that is supposed to promote health in a country where one in three children are overweight or obese by the age of nine. Even the IOC's president, Jacques Rogge, is getting embarrassed, though not embarrassed enough to turn down sponsorship from Dow Chemical. That's the owner of Union Carbide whose plant in India leaked poison-gas in 1984 killing thousands and which refused to accept liability for supporting survivors or cleaning up the environment.

Solutions?

Decentralise the Games by holding them in one or more countries, he proposes, rather than a single city; increase public participation (now restricted to a fleeting glimpse of the torch relay) by using existing venues that maximise available tickets; move sports outside stadiums to increase the number of free-to-watch events, on the Tour de France model; choose sports on the basis of their universal global accessibility; and disconnect corporate sponsors from the heart of the Games by reserving the use of its five-ring symbol for community and voluntary groups.

I'm getting a right old Victor Meldrew I am ;-)