Sucks to the curmudgeons who think that the infrastructure won’t cope, the building will run over schedule and we Londoners will end up footing the bill. I genuinely think our bid was the best, and as an East London resident on the property market, who am I to complain about today’s news?
I have always found the anti-French sentiment of so many English people strange. But I have to say I found myself sniggering at Chirac’s food blunder, and unmoved by the tears of the French shown so repeatedly on the news programmes here. However, I found the reaction of the cleaner at work, ‘John the Bog’ a little extreme: he came roaring into my staid city office, arm raised in a victory salute, saying ‘Well our council tax may go up, but at least we fucked the French!’
That’s what I love about the English, gracious in victory and defeat.