6 months after being chosen, the budget had already trebled. At that rate, it would not have stood a chance (which would not necessarily mean that Paris would have won since London and Madrid had an agreement that whoever went out first would then vote for the other and bring its supporting countries to the fray).
What do you know, trebling wasn't enough. It keeps going up and up. They will not repeat the fiasco of the Track and Field world championship (which had to be held in another country when London failed to organise them) of course, but it's less than impressive. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Britain revolves around the cult of the amateur. We do not have professional or experienced people involved at senior levels of projects, we have the "great and the good". People who have been to public school, ie of "good standing", but who are too stupid to make money in the city and too lazy to be directly involved in government. A comic character known as Tim "nice but dim". These are the appointed idiots tasked with running all of the great projects.
None of them can count properly , none of them can read properly. The idea that any of them could even understand an explanation of how a budget works, yet these are the people who make decisions. Dilbert's pointy-haired manager would be a paragon of virtue compared with these parasitical misfits. keep to the Fen Causeway
Carefully sugest that people in positions of authority should have some kind of competence and you will immediately be branded as "elitist", "technocrat", "undemocratic", and 10 seconds later they will be haranguing about Auschwitz. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
