What gets me is how everybody is saying what a wonderful man Lord Coe is...... it was him that lumbered London with this white elephant! and don't get me started on that utter @~~sser Boris FFS!!!!!!!! The man who decided that being Mayor of London could be a part time job because he was so wonderful that he could be Mayor and an MP at the same time?? Jezus, the man can't even organise a proper haircut.
Just signed. I think Boris has his mind on bigger ambitions now. And The Blessed St. Seb has loftier ideals than to be bothered about an East London football club.
No offence to AHLL who is a good chap, but I am sick of other Charlton busy bodies sticking their noses in here. Good luck to West Ham and their owners if they have engineered a few quid of public money so that their fans can continue to watch football in the borough they have been in for 100 years. I would rather it be spent on football stadia than mosques. And have you seen the state of Stratford lately !? The West Ham fans have had a very raw deal over the last 30 years for reasons we all know about but are not allowed to mention, so good luck to them for finally getting their slice of the pie.
In these times of austerity there are better uses for taxpayers' money (I mean the poor mugs who pay PAYE) than a wealthy Premier League club.
i've signed it - only because at the last home match, coming down the a2 i got stuck. i looked around to see who was in the traffic and it wasnt charlton fans, it was west ham fans trying to get to the tunnel. imagine what it's going to be like if they get moved closer. you'll get stuck at the pc world in charlton because of the wham fans.
I am going to start an alternative petition congratulating the West Ham owners on a very rare feat - securing public funds for something that ostensibly benefits English people.
I signed only because I did not want what was taken out of my wages to fund the fortunes of another club. Taxpayer money being spent on sporting is something that is quite often done in the USA, as the following video eludes to. First of all they're asking for us to pay for maintenance. Next step, they'll be wanting a balcony swimming pool or threatening to leave. Either way we look at it, they'll get the stadium. The Government cannot afford to have this not used, as people will ask the question "what was the point of the Olympics?" Similarly with what we see in the aftermath of the Brazillian and South African world cups, where they have 90,000+ seater stadiums, which no one uses. The stadium which hosed the Brazil World Cup Final (and two other games), the Estadio Mane Garrincha, which cost the Brazillian tax payer £350million, dubbed "the second most expensive stadium in the world" is now a bus parking depot, as they cannot find a use for it. Athletics attracts small crowds by comparison and having such as stadium would only attract the same unwanted attention to the government. There is no Olympic Legacy, that was just a lie... What they should have done was build a cheap temporary stadium, and pulled it down, and used the land to build a tonne of "REAL" affordable housing for Londoners.
i dunno why they dont just leave it as an athletics stadium, i did the 10k run round it a month ago and it's fantastic as it is. leave it to schools and for athletics - the track at crystal palace cant be that great.
Not while Boris runs the show. If housing is affordable to rich foreign investors that makes it affordable. Boris is not the spluttering buffoon he pretends to be.
Ruined it even more for the youth... Plus Labour will be as bad. Private Educated Andy Burnham, or Exclusive Grammar School Jeremy Corbyn. As much as they spout their crap, they're no longer a party for the people.
Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are decent candidates though. Pity they're not ready for a woman as leader.
I went to a Grammar School. Passing a test as a 10 year old in a state primary school doesn't pre-qualify you as an elitist member of the middle classes. That misconception riles me as much as Nick's ostensibly little Englander persona. I've signed it. The arrangement for West Ham to occupy the stadium is basically a cover up for bad planning and mismanagement of the Olympic bid; it's the only option that makes it look like the stadium isn't an embarrassing flop and someone needs to be made accountable for that.
Apologies, I should have made the distinction between Grammar Schools and the sort that he went to, the "SELECTIVE" grammar school, who's buildings look like something resembled of Hogwarts..
Any child who goes to a "selective" school goes there because their parents want what they consider the best possible education. Hardly a crime. There are many types of snobbery- intellectual snobbery, musical snobbery, inverted snobbery for starters.
We need to go back to having a grammar school in every single town and village in this country. Even in Erith. The comprehensive system, foisted on this country by the Labour Party in the 70s, has been a ghastly sick failure, designed to prove that all kids are equal and should all get an "equal chance". What it meant in reality was the brightest kids having to fight even harder because their teachers spent 90% of their time re explaining 2+2=4 to the dunces.
