'Die Another Day'

[sir.prize]

Strict security on the Olympic route requires 24 hours' notice of any funeral cortege needing to travel in the area. Proprietor of a Muslim Funeral Home situated close to the Olympic route, complains: ''We're completely bu66ered. It's very important in our faith to be buried within 24 hours. We've been told to consider doing services at night and holding burials in a morning but that's going to throw everything out of sync. The Olympics is already coinciding with Ramadan . . .''

WHAT? AND SO WHAT!

Do they expect the Olympic Games to be cancelled?

If I typed what I'm thinking, I'd be banned.

[L00fah100]

anotheoldgit maybe this is why they are heard and others are not, these people are ready to take to the streets, hold protests, be arrested, go to war, maim and kill, where the others are scared of being banned from a website?

Clearly they are dedicated and believe in themselves and their beliefs unlike others who end up stifled and angry.

Maybe we can take a leaf from their book except any methods they use which are immoral and illegal.

[sir.prize]

L00fah100. Welcome to AnswerBank. Nice to see you ready to join in so soon after registering. It is unfortunate you choose to take the line that we are stifling our comments. That is merely your interpretation. And it is not nice to suggest people may possibly be anti islamic or anti ethnic groups.

A friendly word of advice: People on here are wise, educated, astute and quite often forthright with their comments. But it is always better to get one's facts right. Do not guess as you openly admit you did in your comment. Try to be equally astute and wise.

Have fun L00fah100.

[L00fah100]

Of course you're stifled, why else would you say "If I typed what I'm thinking, I'd be banned"

That says to me that you have something you're dying to say but know that it may not be received too well therefore you cannot say it which is stifling you.

Please prove me wrong by typing out the comment you originally wanted to type.

The two guys underneath your original comment that "Knew what you were thinking"

Is your "get your facts right" Spiel directed at them too?

Oh and thanks for the welcome :)

[New Judge]

I’m afraid, sp, that I do not share your optimism surrounding the “legacy” that the Games will leave.

It started long before the Games. The chaos caused by the ridiculous torch procession must have cost millions in lost business to companies all over the country. Quite a number of local businesses have already gone to the wall as a direct result of the chaos in East London and a number of others are expecting to do so. Many more have had to be relocated. Some of this makes interesting reading:

http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/

Of course in the current climate the security services will be in their element. No fly zones already in place; draconian parking restrictions already in place; vehicles to be prohibited in Westfield Shopping Centre for the duration and much, much more, all in the name of security but all of which will enable the police and others to bully people around. Still, look on the bright side: some residents who are on the "walking route" from Leyton Station to the stadium have been given a Grand each to tidy their front gardens.

Comparison with other smaller events is disingenuous. The Olympic chaos will last for months and will be widespread to a far greater degree than the other functions you mention.

The big winners, as always, will be the multi-nationals who are big enough to absorb the chaos and then make a nice few bob when all the mayhem has finished. The hope that the facilities provided for the Games will be long lasting is already crumbling. No agreement can be reached on the future of the main stadium short of tearing it down and rebuilding something else that others may be interested in. The equestrian facilities in Greenwich will be ripped up (and should never have been provided anyway because there were world class facilities in existence elsewhere). Exactly the same is true for the shooting facilities in Woolwich. Transport facilities should be developed for Londoners and tourists as a matter of course. There was no need to allow them to stagnate and only put money into them when the bid was won.

So no, I do not think it is even remotely worth it. Much of the Games will be tedious (after the eleventh heat of the Men’s 200m backstroke it does tend to become a little stale). Of course Londoners will muddle through; life (and death) will still go on. But the inconvenience and cost to most Londoners far outweigh any small benefits they might see. The vast majority of London Council Tax payers (who have paid a premium for the past six years to fund the Games) will gain absolutely nothing from them being held.

My Lord Coe is a master of hype but unfortunately suffers the delusion that everybody lives eats and sleeps sport as he seems to do. But if Londoners had been properly canvassed before the bid was made and their views considered and acted upon instead of them just being presented with a bill, things may have been very different.

[mushroom25]

those who commute into liverpool street had better hope that there aren't any signalling or lineside equipment failures between stratford and bow junction during the olympics - already there have been issues with network rail staff being denied access to the track through some of their designated access points, which now lie within the olympic zone.

[ichkeria]

I can understand why the the interviewee is frustrated but I also don't understand why the questioner is cross also as plainly he is not in sympathy. They don't appear to be demanding the cancellation of the Games, which will disrupt some people's lives for a while but that sadly is inevitable.

[Duncer]

It strikes me as utterly crass that anyone of ANY (or no), religion should have to give notice of a funeral.

[emmie]

it won't just disrupt funerals, but people trying to get from their home, work and not just East London. Most areas are affected, ours which is fairly central will be a nightmare, as this is where the media will be encamped, or so we are told. there is the local papers story of one lane having 1,000 official vehicles passing through an hour, so that is a big problem. And as yet i have met only two people who have tickets for the games, and i am most certainly not one of them. London is already blighted with resident people, tourists, and i am not looking forward to this at all.