The security of the Olympic venues should have been totally managed
from the centre, by that, I mean by the Government. What a cavalier
attitude this Government has demonstrated to State Security. Lop it off,
sub-contract it,abnegate the responsibility for it, by selling it at
the cheapest price. There is a convenient whipping boy now, G4S, whose
main error was accepting and signing an impossible contract. Their
corporate vanity has been their undoing.
The silver lining for the State, is that they can now be seen to be
rescuing the security of the Olympic Games at a series of major events,
in a number of spread out venues. The Government avoids a public slating
for using the Armed Forces, by letting a private company create a
wholesale security cock up. The Armed Forces and civilian police, many
of whom are working towards unemployment, are to be thanked, we are to
be grateful to them for stepping in to the breach, (not for being used).
These people, who have appropriate experience and expertise, will be
paid proper salaries. They will either have homes travelling distance
from the venues, or temporary housing will be provided. None of them
will be sheltering under bridges.
Conscripts have to turn up for work, and they are provided for. People who are trained on a Just In Time basis, who are unpaid
and held on standby till they start a job have no incentive to be loyal
to a company; they can go elsewhere, take part time jobs,start earning,
nearer where they live. The pool of retired ex-service and police
personnel will also walk away. They can find jobs through other
agencies who will not leave them in employment limbo
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A complete shambles! Flighty xx
Wouldn't it be a refreshing change to have a government who simply got on with the job of sorting out the country instead of always trying to find convenient scapegoats & whipping-boys?
Greece is still struggling to pay off debts incurred from hosting the Olympics and we will be in a similar position - or worse, by the time this lot is finished.
Hello Mr F,
I agree the security set up has been a shambles, a contrived one perhaps! the Government gain from it.
xx
Hi Axe,
Nice point, but isn't easier to divert public attention from the inadequacies than deal with them, (as you say). This is another one of those tactical diversions. How dare they play with the country's security in this way!
Hi Jennyta,
I am sure we will never know the real cost of the millstone legacy.
Some political competency would be refreshing, wouldn't it.
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