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thomas davison

If you believe that Olympic glory makes a nation great, just remember the USSR
By Peter Hitchens
PUBLISHED: 00:04, 12 August 2012 | UPDATED: 00:05, 12 August 2012

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It seems that you can now be arrested for not smiling when an Olympic event is taking place. So I had better watch out in case I am wrestled to the ground and carted off by some Compulsory Happiness snatch squad.
For I have not been smiling nearly enough. I have watched two or three races on the TV.

There is still something thrilling in a raw contest among men and women stretched to the uttermost, in which there can be only one winner.

Harangued: Those who have dared to say they didn�t like the Opening Ceremony have been lectured and made to feel isolated

It is refreshingly unlike modern Britain, where the very idea that there must be losers for there to be winners is banned from most schools, and denied by our political leaders.
But I can summon up little interest in all the other alleged sports, dancing animals, underwater basketball, bikini display or whatever they are.

As a lifelong cyclist, I find myself startlingly unmoved by Olympic cycling. It is too technological, too dependent on machines and airlocks. The riders look like aliens in their special outfits.

Left cold: Great Britain's Sir Chris Hoy, right, with team mates Jason Kenny, centre, and Philip Hindes celebrate with their gold medals in the Team Sprint Final
But good luck to you if you have enjoyed it. I am happy for you, provided I�m allowed to differ from you.

The trouble is, I�m not sure I am. From the moment these Olympics started, there�s been a strong smell of New Labour totalitarianism.

Unmoved: Olympic cyclists are far removed for everyday riding
Those who have dared to say they didn�t like the Opening Ceremony have been lectured and made to feel isolated.
The BBC even transmitted an astonishing personal attack on me in which I was misrepresented (they have since apologised, an event as rare as a Lottery win, but alas the apology is nothing like good enough).

Now someone called Armando Iannucci, who is famous for something, has called me a �scribbling cynic� and proclaimed that I and those like me �took a hell of a beating�.
I think this is because the British team has won a lot of medals, and the Opening Ceremony has been much praised.
I can�t see why an Olympic opening ceremony should have any politics in it at all.

.But remember how deeply the Blairite Cosa Nostra was involved in securing the Olympics for London at all costs, and how their heirs, the Cameron Tories, have taken up the baton.
Why? I think the pitiful failure of the Millennium Dome rankled badly with the Blairites. They were and are revolutionaries. They had long hoped to use the new century to proclaim Year One of their nasty, tatty, multicultural, anti-Christian New Britain.
Put simply, I think they wanted to undo the magic of the 1953 Coronation Ceremony, with modernist incantations and a censored, reordered version of our national history. The Olympics were a second chance, in which a normal love of sport could be converted into an anti-conservative wave of feeling.
And behold, they have done it. I don�t begrudge the winners their joy, or the spectators their delight. But do Olympic medals make a nation great?

Was the USSR a great nation because it won lots of them? Is Jamaica a stable and happy society because Usain Bolt is a great athlete?
Would you rather have Australia�s thriving economy, or Britain�s medal tally? And by the way, have Prince William and his wife forgotten that they are future monarchs of Australia?
In a free country, there is no obvious connection between sporting achievement and national standing. The truth is that we have used scarce money to hire coaches, buy equipment and subsidise athletes in sports where competition is weak.
When all this is over, we will still be broke, disorderly, badly educated and gravely troubled by the greatest wave of mass immigration in our history. I cannot see why I should smile about that

THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WOULD RATHER HAVE AUSTRALIAS ECONOMY THAN A BUNCH OF MEDALS AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.

2Anne · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 399 Location: Norfolk

In the Daily Mail we had pic after pic of the blacks who won medals and hardly any of Chris Hoy and other notables.(the vast majority of medal winners were white)
It was the same in the Eastern Daily Press today with a 12 pic supplement of which 8 of the pics were of blacks.
We are told that Mo Faraah is the most popular of the Olympians A man from Somalia who draped himself in the Somali flag after his first medal.
Is this someone to identify with as British??
He looks and is African and nothing will change that. As far as being the most popular why are the press forcing blacks down our throats and lying about their popularity?? What is going on. A very worrying development in an already adulterated press.
WHO is orchestrating all of this and for what purpose??

thomas davison · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:37 am Post subject:

Even on the television you cannot watch an advert without seeing a black there which gives the impression that there are as many blacks in this country as whites.
The BBC is the worst for this, not many whites work there at all.