2nd August:
Ministers said today that it was “absolute nonsense” to claim the West End has been turned into a ghost town by the Olympics.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Evening Standard that hotels and other businesses who planned properly for the Games were doing well. He denied that visitor numbers to the West End were down on last year.
3rd August:
The Prime Minister has urged people to "come back into the capital" following claims that the 2012 Games had turned London into a "ghost town", with commuters and non-Olympic tourists avoiding the city.
David Cameron said the "threat of meltdown on the traffic system" had been defeated and London was "open for business" during the sporting events.
Isn’t it great when your boss undermines you in public?
Isn’t it great when your junior undermines you in public by trying to be helpful, but goes a little OTT?
ReplyDeleteCulture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Evening Standard that hotels and other businesses who planned properly for the Games were doing well. He denied that visitor numbers to the West End were down on last year.
same day
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9446171/You-should-have-seen-it-coming-Olympics-minister-tells-empty-shops.html
Hugh Robertson, the Olympics minister, has told retailers who say trade has been damaged by the Games that they should have been better prepared as Seb Coe laughs off their fears.
....businesses in London have said that "doom–laden" warnings to the public about disruption have put many people off coming to the capital. But yesterday Mr Robertson told BBC London News: "I would just say gently to anybody involved in the retail sector or the hotel sector, this is hardly a surprise. It has not been a great secret. "The London Games were won seven years ago. We have all known that this was coming. There has been ample time to plan for it."
XX The Prime Minister has urged people to "come back into the capital" XX
ReplyDeleteHmmm. For those of a certain age, they will remember something similar in 1940.
After the so called "battle of Britain", all the wee bastards that had been evacuated, were told to return from their hidey holes.
Only to be met by V1s and V2s.
"Isn’t it great when your junior undermines you in public by trying to be helpful, but goes a little OTT?"
ReplyDeleteSix of one, half a dozen of the other? ;)
"For those of a certain age, they will remember something similar in 1940."
Quite! I'm surprised we haven't had any riots. Yet.