FROM THE IMDB LOVE ACTUALLY FORUM
London is a cesspit.
It's the biggest con on the entire planet, the entire place is a dump, the people are offensive and it's the home of the tos*ers that are 'The City Bankers' It also has many many stabbings, violence and general crime.
Why the Olympics is held in London is a mystery, real Englishman are not Londoners anymore.
London is for the rich and foreign.
The Olympics should be held in the North and the Midlands.
According to the English press, the only thing noteworthy in England is south of the Watford gap.
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LONDON OLYMPICS AND THE HALO EFFECT
FROM AROUND THE RINGS
Speaking at an Around the Rings Newsmaker Breakfast in Bloomsbury, London, LOCOG Commercial Director Chris Townsend said that the Olympic brand “has risen above the recession”.
Really?
Joss Croft described London 2012 as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” for tourism in Britain, but insisted that the potential of the Olympics went beyond that.
“It’s an opportunity to change peoples’ perceptions of Britain,” he said.
“For Visit Britain when we talk about London 2012 it’s less about the 6-8 weeks around July 2012, it’s actually an opportunity to develop skills and product and subsequently to develop the reputation and image of Britain and access new markets.”
Really?
According to Townsend tier one sponsorships were still averaging $90 million.
“We haven’t seen our average transactions fall yet,” he said, but admitted that this may be the case as 2012 neared.
No kidding?
A frequent criticism of London 2012 is that its vast public funding is almost entirely London centered. But Croft said that there would be a ‘halo effect’ of the estimated $4.78billion tourist revenues as visitors explore the rest of Britain during the Olympics and afterwards. In particular he was hopeful that businesses would see Britain’s potential beyond London as a venue for major conferences and exhibitions.
Lets see that great halo effect!
Speaking at an Around the Rings Newsmaker Breakfast in Bloomsbury, London, LOCOG Commercial Director Chris Townsend said that the Olympic brand “has risen above the recession”.
Really?
Joss Croft described London 2012 as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” for tourism in Britain, but insisted that the potential of the Olympics went beyond that.
“It’s an opportunity to change peoples’ perceptions of Britain,” he said.
“For Visit Britain when we talk about London 2012 it’s less about the 6-8 weeks around July 2012, it’s actually an opportunity to develop skills and product and subsequently to develop the reputation and image of Britain and access new markets.”
Really?
According to Townsend tier one sponsorships were still averaging $90 million.
“We haven’t seen our average transactions fall yet,” he said, but admitted that this may be the case as 2012 neared.
No kidding?
A frequent criticism of London 2012 is that its vast public funding is almost entirely London centered. But Croft said that there would be a ‘halo effect’ of the estimated $4.78billion tourist revenues as visitors explore the rest of Britain during the Olympics and afterwards. In particular he was hopeful that businesses would see Britain’s potential beyond London as a venue for major conferences and exhibitions.
Lets see that great halo effect!
LONDON OR BUST
Question: What has Europe's eighth biggest economy, 77 floodlit artificial football pitches and the world's most ethnically diverse population? Another clue: if you own a house in this place, it's worth nearly twice the national average for homes in Britain.
The answer, if you haven't already guessed, is London. If it were a country, the capital would rank above Sweden in terms of economic power; within a couple of years it will have overtaken Switzerland.
BY 2003, THE LONDON ECONOMY WILL HAVE OVERCOME SWITZERLAND?
DID THE OBSERVER ARTICLE'S AUTHORS' PREDICTION EVER COME TRUE?
THE TROOF IS OUT THERE.
IS LONDON IT'S OWN COUNTRY?
8 YEARS AFTER THE OBSERVER ARTICLE HERE WAS PUBLISHED, IS LONDON STILL ITS OWN COUNTRY?
Two countries in one land?
• If London were a nation, it would rank above Sweden, Finland and Hungary in terms of economic output, with a Gross Domestic Product £2,500 higher per person that the UK as a whole
• Financial and business services account for 38 per cent of London's economic activity, compared to 25 per cent nationally. Manufacturing accounts for 11 per cent in London, against 21 per cent nationally
• Fourteen of the 33 London boroughs are in the top 20 most deprived in the United Kingdom
• London has 12 per cent of the UK's population - but 18 per cent of the nation's restaurants
• One in four people in central London are from an ethnic minority, compared to one in 20 in the UK as a whole
• House prices have been rising twice as quickly in London as the rest of the country for the past five years
• 16- to 34-year-olds in London watch an average of 19 hours TV a week; compared to 22 hours for the UK
• If all subsidies between the regions and nations were abolished, and local income tax systems introduced, London could have a basic tax rate of 18 pence in the pound, and top rate of just 30 pence - while Scotland would need rates of 38 per cent and 62 per cent respectively
• The average price of a detached London house is £293,000, compared to a national average of £145,000, and £94,000 in Wales
• The Government spends £677 per head on public transport in London, compared to £75 in the West Midlands
• Londoners walk 260 miles a year, compared to a national average of 200 miles
• Twice as many non-Londoners as Londoners make it to work in less than 20 minutes (62 per cent versus 31 per cent)
IS LONDON STILL A GIANT CASH MACHINE?
8 YEARS AFTER THIS ARTICLE IN THE OBSERVER
HAS ANYTHING CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?
...
THE TROOF IS OUT THERE.
HAS ANYTHING CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?
It's London vs Britain
The capital is the dynamic engine driving the UK. But the shires are growing weary of its irresistible force.
The genie is out of the bottle. One of the greatest ironies of the constitutional reform process is that the attempt to disperse power has created platforms from which different parts of the country can blast away at each other. The prejudices have always been there, of course. A.N. Wilson thinks of 'London as a City State with a number of boring and rather expensive appendages (known as England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland) to which we have to be polite and which we are obliged, rather unwillingly, to subsidise, to ease the chips on their provincial shoulders'. But the prejudices are becoming politics: Trevor Phillips, when he was a candidate to become London's first directly-elected mayor, kick-started a debate about the level of subsidisation between London and the rest of the country, demanding that Scotland 'give back' £1-2 billion a year. The wars of distribution are likely to intensify once London has a mayor in place - and as the economic divide deepens.
Economic output is £13,000 per head in London, compared to a national average of £11,000. The gap between GDP per head in London and the rest of the country has increased sixfold in the past 15 years. The pay gap, already 30 per cent, is set to widen to 35 per cent by 2003 according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. House prices continue to soar in the capital. And with London's service-based, international economy booming, the level of subsidy from London to poorer regions is more than £20 billion a year - or £8,000 for every metropolitan household.
So while Britain complains about the political dominance of the capital, the capital moans about being used, in the London Evening Standard's phrase, as a 'giant cash machine'.
THE TROOF IS OUT THERE.
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