I doubt the whole of Wales or Scotland feel much patriotism toward the london olympics, we are somewhat detached from this cash drain .
You maybe, considering about 2/3rds of my facebook friends are Welsh, the Opening ceremony seemed to have a good response. Seeing you reply to an extremely tongue in cheek comment in that manner, you just come across as one of those miserable always serious people who would turn their nose up at the Olympics unless it was in your back garden. Even the you would probably complain of the noise.
I speak the truth my friend, The olympics would only hold interest for me if Wales were competing as Wales i think this GB concept is a thing of the past, from the days of the empire, we are my friend becoming 4 individual nations, GB is a busted flush
Speaking for Scotland & forgetting about NI in your Smart arse point. I'm as cynical as it gets but I loved last night & love that the games are in the UK. You know it's ok, even in hard times to enjoy yourself? In fact it's imperative we do. Nobody likes self pitying whiney miserable gets even ob the international/business stage. Luckily the Welsh, Scottish & Irish I know are proud of this event. Maybe it's a Swansea thing: there's a definite pattern of bitter misery judging by the posts on this board.
I'll be totally honest. The Olympics are here and I'm now going to enjoy them as a tv event. I do think that too much has been spent already and I'm waiting until some smartalec tells us just how long it is going to take us to pay the bill! - but that's for the future. My true gripe lies with all this talk of legacy. I don't see that translated into a new pitch or roof for the changing rooms in any local sports club up and down the country. If SE london needs to be re-develped then let the bloody City pay for it from their bonuses. For now COME ON GB!!
You think we are any less detached up here in Liverpool? London is a permanent cash drain on the rest of us 24/7 365 days of every year. However if it wasn't going to London it was going to Paris then miserable ****ers like you would probably moan that we never get anything. Let's not pretend this cash wouldn't have been spent on projects in London anyway (or bombing someone with lots of oil). Personally I know its a crazy amount to spend...however I'd rather we spent it on an almighty sporting event than feeding it to the poor bankers so they can keep their bonus pots topped up Will you not bother cheering on any of the superb Welsh athletes you have? I think you might find a few of them feeling a touch of patriotism and pride toward the London Olympics.
Fantastic advertisement for our free NHS, which will probably see even more tens of thousands of 'health tourists' comming here for free abortions and HIV treatments.
Or a celebratiopn of the NHS that is for all of us and not just those with money... The same NHS that saved my daughters life after she was born and saved my old fellas life a couple of years ago after he'd had a heart attack the Womens and Broadgreen are top places...Maggie wanted places like Broadgreen shut and The Womens never built...Danny sticking two fingers up at Cameron who'll try the same ****...well done Danny...happy days
Fair enough Billy, we've all got tales of how the NHS saved members of our families and friends (or left them to do in agony with terminal pancreatic cancer like my father bevause he was too old, but that's another story*). Just don't think foreigners who don't contribute towards it should be treated unless it's paid for by a charity or they're from a country that has a reciprocal arrangement such as NZ or Canada. *My old feller was one of the generation of 1945 that voted labour after the war and thought it was the new Jerusalem. In '93, when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer (tough luck, but nobody's fault) and was denied morphine to die at home by his local gp who'd just become an enthusiastic 'fund-holder). I thank God for the Macmillan nurses who shamed him into writing a perscription at 2 in the morning.
Oh give over, those of us in the north feel little from the London Olympics either, and we do not have the benefit of being Wales or Scotland. Your small country mentality is annoying at best considering any economy you have, and the life you live are down to the benefits provided by the United Kingdom, not Wales.
Ah come on MJ, Wales,Scotland and NI all have their own parliaments within the UK(England doesn't),Welsh Scots and NI MP's have a say on the lives of the English(or those living in England),more money per head of population is spent on Welsh Scots and NI than the English in terms of education,health and welfare etc. And those of us outside of London up north have paid as much as Londoners for their big jolly and wont see the benefits after the games, such as the stadias, the olympic village(that will end up as luxury appartments),the new railwaiy and station etc. Your Principality along with the Province and Scotland are better off than the inhabitants of England so wind yer neck in.
Its far from perfect mate and never will be...my Grandad can't get a vital operation because of his age (not life threatening but life changing as in he can hardly walk nowadays) despite fighting for his country AND working all his life. Still glad its there though. Plenty of people abuse the system and plenty of them are British (many more than the element from abroad who abuse it)...but I'm still glad we have it. Macmillan Nurses (and Marie Curie too) are angels btw Aaaanyway don't want to turn this into an NHS thread just glad someone had the balls to celebrate it for once as its something I think we should be proud of.
Those of us in the South West ain't seeing too much benefit either from the Olympics - but I totally agree with you.
Well said Billy. The NHS is probably the one thing for me that truly demonstrates our humanity to the world. Now let's show some aggression and win some medals!
