Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?

Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?

Although Britain’s athletes shone at the Beijing Olympics, the UK has been ridiculed for its role in the handover ceremony

Boris Johnson was labelled as 'arrogant, rude and disrespectful' by critics of his handling of the flag and the speech in which he proclaimed “ping pong is coming home”. Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page and David Beckham’s performances also came in for criticism, with bloggers branding the whole thing ridiculous.

However, the show put on by the Chinese has been received with nothing but praise. Do you think that London can live up to its promises for 2012 despite concerns over the budget? Or will GB become the laughing stock of the world?
 

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  1.  
    bob from Glenrothes says:
    Dec 20, 00:57

    lets face it brown has reduced us to a third world country. lets do the decent tthing and hand it back before it banksrupt us. please no more plonkers with a manse education

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    Steve from manchester says:
    Dec 20, 00:25

    Well if anyone can tell me why the Building contract was awarded to an Australian company ? Do we not have a company capable ?

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    Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?
    No
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    Steve from manchester says:
    Dec 20, 00:18

    I think we should pull out before we become the laughing stock of the world.
    We just can not afford it in these hard economic times.

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    Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?
    No
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    andrew from nottingham says:
    Dec 19, 22:39

    we can not compete with china, because we have to many greedy people involved with every part of the games, from building the venues, to government accepting bribes. Labour have killed of any hope of competing. Labour would win gold in stealing public money.

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    Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?
    No
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    TOM from HERTS says:
    Dec 19, 22:33

    Not with Brown and Nue Labour In charge of Finaces, just like the ever increasing Burden of the Bloated Public Sector which is approaching £ Trillion there will be no money left for the Games, unless we streach it out over a Year and have all the venues at Wembly,

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    Can London compete with Beijing in 2012?
    No

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