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28.7.05
27 July 2012

Today is yet another day when news related to the London bombings and the 2012 London Olympics are both dominating the schedules. Seb Coe and chums launched the fundraising lottery scratchcard today, with its prize of - wait for it - £2,012. Genius. It's launched today because (a) it's exactly seven years from today that the games will start and (b) the first wave of bombs meant that a second celebration of the London win, when the team returned from Singapore, was called off. Blogland's resident 2012 Olympics correspondent (for the next seven years and more), Diamond Geezer, has travelled in time and seen the opening day already (and very funny it is too).

Lord Coe et al will probably need seven years to sell enough scratchcards to finish the construction work that, as they've been so keen to point out today, has already started. I saw Coe himself and various different reporters throughout the day, standing in the drizzle of East London, praying that global warming will really have set in by this date in 2012. There was definitely some tractor dancing going on in the background, so the digging must have started. I mean, it's not as if they would just be there for the benefit of the cameras, is it? I'm sure we'd all like to know who these builders are, who can start a major construction project within three weeks of the go-ahead being given. Trade must be very slack.

I've never bought a lottery scratchcard in my life, and I don't intend to start now. Good luck, my compatriots.


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