I Just Don’t Care!

I’m not talking about Tibet, I care about that – I also care about China’s human rights issues, and the rest of the world’s reluctance to put pressure on China to do something about it – still while you’re busy doing business with them.

What I don’t care about is the Olympics, I enjoy watching sport – I don’t enjoy watching people chuck things or running round a track. That said, I can live with it. What I can’t live with is the constant bollocks spouted from people involved in the games oraganisation that it’s great for a country to host the Olympics, that it’s somehow going to change my life because London has it in 2012. Which brings me to todays torch carrying pantomime today in our capital. The Torch was run from Wembley Stadium to the O2 Arena (the dome) by famous athletes ( Steve Redgrave, Tim Henman, Kelly Holmes) and of course the plethora of ‘celebrities’ including ex Big Breakfast weather girl Denise Van Outen and Blue Peter’s Konnie Huq!

Seriously who fucking cares? I was actually cheering the protesters who tried to have their voices heard and the bloke who tried to extinguish the flame deserves a medal, podium and the the National Anthem.

Of course it was a bit of an embarrassment to the Met who put their finest cyclist forces in charge of ‘guarding’ the flame but once the protesters got a bit more eager they pulled out their over the top policing trump card by way of what I like to call the Police-ring; A shit load of coppers forming a circle around the Torch and then another load of non cyclist plod formed a ring around them, while the Athlete/Celebrity swapped the torch with another Athlete/Celebrity. All in all I counted about 40 police officers protecting what is essentially a candle through the streets of London. Brilliant.

I look forward to watching the Paris leg tomorrow.

Update: Ha, I didn’t realise until I’d read Justin‘s post that ‘The idea of carrying a lit torch from the Temple of Hera in Greece was invented by Hitler.’   Nice.