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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Sorry but in my view it's an appalling waste of £9.5 – 12 billion (estimates vary) in a country whose economy has been shrinking for three quarters straight. The original bid was £2.5 billion yet we're told it's been done within budget. Still, it seems there's plenty of empty seats if you want to attend at short notice!
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Those seats are empty because tens of thousands of Brits are pouring into Orlando IA and Orlando-Sanford IA aboard sched. and chartered Airbuses to go to Disney. As one chap said to me Friday night after deplaning from a Thomas Cook flight out of Gatwick, "Thank God! We escaped! We made it!" I gather many of them did not want to attend or be any where near the Olympics. Anyway, Disney is choked to capacity right now and the Brits are in the majority.