And it seems that we're waking up to the reality of what is about to happen to London for the duration, particularly at the hands of the Axis powers, that is, the Olympic committee and their cronies in the sponsorship alliance, who will lay seige to the capital, reverse the burden of proof for the prosecution of dissidents and impose their elite "Zil Lanes" upon us, claiming miles of road to ensure they have untainted access to anywhere they care to drive, all shamelessly assisted by the quisling London Organising Committee.
Farcically, that's not even standard blogger hyperbole; it's a factual summary of the events to come.
Check out:
The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Advertising and Trading) (England) Regulations 2011
Zil Lanes
Even my employers are conflicted as to how to approach the impending Vichy period, simultaneously banning annual leave and insisting that staff avoid coming in to work, issuing instructions to staff reiterating both. It appears that many of us will be invited to enjoy "working from home", regardless as to whether we're not just avoiding the pre-school nursery fees whilst pretending that they "get so much more done without getting interrupted" as usual, (but don't get me started on THAT hot potato).
Meanwhile, our suppliers have spent some time now recommending customers to stockpile supplies, or to begin arrangements to receive deliveries over night whilst the the occupying forces are in their barracks, or making free with the local women. I await the guidelines as to how we should smudge our faces with burnt cork and establish a covert signalling network. Maybe goods can arrive by light aircraft on an improvised grass-strip lit by headlights?
Even the Conservatives are up in arms. The Black Cab drivers have come up with this amusing logo in response to the Zil Lanes, whilst the reactionary press have all rallied against the plan to wall off 430,000 sq feet of sea view at Weymouth to prevent non-ticket holders from viewing the sailing! Maybe the small-time Tories are upset that they're to be excluded from a share of the profits as the multinationals monopolise the bauxite mine that is the olympic dollar.
(Mind you, the Olympics does take place during the summer months, so there is at least some hope that we could reactivate the anti-capitalist campaigners that bailed out of St Pauls due to the cold snap, and bring them back for a bit of mid-summer insurrection once the five-ring pig-trough opens.)
In short: It's not going to be a festival fun, it's going to be a pile of congested shit!
You think I'm exagerating? Remember: they booed Churchill's opposition to Hitler in 1933!
Hmmm? Hmmm?
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