£41,000,000

Northwind

MarcBC wrote:

I suppose we should all ignore the potential £10-£20bn* in revenue the games are due to generate for the UK then. If we are going to dig at the Olympics, at least do it with some balance.

To be fair, those numbers are pretty blue-sky. FT is predicting a total revenue before costs of 2bn (they take into account the cost of the impact on tourism elsewhere in the country, which the LTSB figures don't seem to)

There's other benefits o'course- the infrastructure remains. Which again, is awesome for London but not so hot for the 51 million people elsewhere in the UK, who get to pay for it.

delcol

are these figures predidcted by same guy/lady who prediditecd the growth of the economy.. that they admitted last week they got wrong...