Olympian freebie

While the world is talking about Julian Assange and Wikileaks some more embarrassing information has slipped out, or rather been dragged out. It is about the Olympics and is in response to a Freedom of Information demand by The Spectator and Games Monitor. The organisers wanted to keep this secret, and held out for two years.

The official language of the 2012 London games will be...French. English will be the second language. At the stadia the Union Flag will fly fifth in precedence, after the Olympics flag, the flag of the London games, the UN flag and the Greek flag.

The freeloaders – the International Olympic Committee, foreign sports administrators, guest freeloaders etc – will have to be supplied with 40,000 hotel rooms and 700 cars with drivers, a further 400 having pool cars.

It’s not just the cost of all this that object to, it is the shame of a once proud nation having to give in to the demands of a corrupt, unelected clique and then pay for the privilege. Oh, and I should like to know why they were trying to keep it a secret.