Do you know what gets my goat most about these games? In spite of the several billion pound budget, and a time when there's rising unemployment especially among the young, almost everybody working at the events will be a volunteer. We couldn't use this vast pot of money to provide a few weeks' paid work for locals who desperately want it?
Even McDonalds have got the decency to pay the workers in their garish on-site calorie dispenser the minimum wage to shovel fat into the mouths of kids attending an event designed to encourage grassroots sport, but security will be provided by people expected to work for free or - in many cases - lose their jobseekers allowance.
