Do your sums take into account
- The cost of doing up those slummy parts of london that would have to have been spent anyway
- The income from having an increased tourest population during that time.
- The resale of property and assets relating to the stadiums, parks and villages
- Not that you can put a figure on it, but 'national pride', for lack of a better word.
- The export in goods pertaining to an increase to the UK as a brand.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:27, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

No.
My sums are just dividing the budget by the population.

You may however fuck right off with you national pride and UK as a fucking brand.

As for the rest I thought I'd heard that most cities lost out as a whole from staging the Olympics in the past, but I can stand to be proved wrong.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:31, Reply)

sydney made a large profit.
Athens didn't do too badly, lost a little but has the slight disadvatage of being Greece, and thus being infinitely more of a corrupt fuck up then we are. Beijing is difficult to call because the info is unlikely to be true.

Most of the olympics before Sydney made a loss but aren't really fair comparison as the commercial aspect is at a different level these days.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:35, Reply)

*stands corrected*
*still doesn't want the Olympics*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:41, Reply)

Perhaps you could go on holiday oop north whilst it is on?
I'm sure BGB would be very accomodating.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:45, Reply)

This might not be a bad idea.
I was thinking of goin walking/cycling in either the Lakes or Scotland in the summer anyway, this might be the perfect time to do that. I must check the dates.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:49, Reply)

Nononono, UK as a brand is very important.
Instertutionaly and quentisentichily british brands will see a dramatic increase in sale of overseas products, such as Marmite.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:36, Reply)

You see back there where I said you could fuck right off with this bullshit?
Please do so.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:42, Reply)

It's a small thing to factor in, but it's still a real thing.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:45, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1468841
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:48, Reply)

they don't even take into account the money from ticket sales
I doubt. Because there's no fun in the press pimping "In reality, olympics might costs a few pence per person or might make a few pence per person but we've really no fucking idea until it's been and gone" as a story.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:32, Reply)

I'll tell you what's 'wrong' though, they origionally stated something like half a billion and it's now like 12 billion.
I pulled those figures out my ass just now but the percentages aren't far off. It feels like we were cheated into doing something we would have done anyway.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:38, Reply)

really?
I'd like to see the numbers if that was actually the case. I thought there'd been a slight increase in some areas but some stuff was actually under-budget?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:39, Reply)

I'm 99% sure of it.
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmpubacc/85/85.pdf - £3.4b from the public

I'm pretty sure we're to £9b from the public sector now.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:43, Reply)

£9.3b is the figure I used in my 'sums'

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:47, Reply)

273% over budget.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:49, Reply)

Ah, right, that's from the inital estimate prior to being awarded, though.
It's not an increase in budget since the project started.

It's still a fair leap, I grant you, but it's not a "project going overbudget" thing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:48, Reply)

But it was that estimate that we used in order to say 'yes' or 'no' to the whole thing.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:51, Reply)

in this sense CQ is spot on
"we" didn't say yes or no to anything. Anyway, the budget is meaningless to you or I, it's just a number.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:53, Reply)

Of course I fucking am.
Now join my revolutionary army and we'll topple the tyrant Mumps.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:55, Reply)

Did "we"? Which "we" is this Gonz?
I had no idea you were personally involved.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:54, Reply)

He's doing the catering
catering press releases
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:00, Reply)

Actually, 'we' in this case is quite right.
'we' the people voted in for 'our' goverment who agreed to the terms of taking on the olympics. They are our representives chosen by us. In the same we 'we' went into Iraq.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:01, Reply)

I swear you spout this shit just to wind me up gonz.
I'm not biting today. I'm off to kick a kitten, just for you.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:04, Reply)

It's not my fault that we didn't vote in a tory goverment fast enough and therefore gave Tony Blair and his lot an extra 4 years of fucking up this country.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:09, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1468924
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:17, Reply)

If you didn't want us to have a tory goverment then maybe you should have tried harder at campagning ?
Typical lefty, never wanted to put the work in.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:10, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1468924
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:17, Reply)