For all of the many reasons to be critical of the Olympics, it being a waste of future taxpayers' money, it being an unjustified corporatist suppression of free speech, the celebration of the world's most centrally planned universal health care system and most recently, the inability to flexibly manage access to tickets, and the lost opportunity to fix London's inadequate transport infrastructure, there are things to be grateful for - besides the great individual achievements by thousands of athletes (which is the true reason to celebrate the Olympics), Boris Johnson is Mayor rather than Ken Livingstone.
Why?
Boris has written "20 jolly good reasons to be cheerful about the Olympics"...
Including:
As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball
in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are
glistening like wet otters and the water is plashing off the brims of the
spectators’ sou’westers. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers.
and
The Olympics are proving to be a boost to tattoo parlours. Plenty of
people seem to want their thighs inscribed with “Oylimpics 2012” and other
ineradicable mis-spellings.
Who would ever expect Ken Livingstone to say such things....
2 comments:
Yes, no matter what, I'll always have a soft spot for Boris.
Ken Livingston never.
Boris does however remind me of David Lange. Who else, making small talk with Lee Kwan Yew, when asked whether he enjoyed swimming could reply the he enjoyed it much more now that there was a moratorium on whaling.
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