Yet another poorly informed debate on Radio London this morning. Wouldn't mind if they had done their research, they could have then been critical. The view of Jo Good is that we are a nation of fatties who don't want to be fit. Well hello, the most obese country in the world must be the US, but with a population of around four times ours, they win 20 times the number of gold medals.

The Games are about regeneration, improved infrastructure, involving the youth (arts, sports, culture), jobs and skills, business of course, making the UK more inclusive, and .... winning a few more medals than normal). The costs is dwarfed by the Thames Valley Gateway regeneration (of which this is a small part) and probably what was lost on the stock exchange today amongst high street retailers.

So perhaps we could have some interesting debate on the Games means to SE23. Beyond the improved link to the Jubillee line and Stratford (a real grotty place at present).

BD - never afraid to raise difficult subjects