jackytoo

What are you going to say next...All Muslims aren't terrorists..........yadda yadda.

Not potential to let their mate/relative in with an unchecked backpack then...of course not

Domino

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

jackytoo

Let us hope someone does

jimenato

I expect there could easily be one called Seamus as well

Pocaloca

Wow, that's a bad dose of paranoia you've got there! They're all out to get you are they? Why would that be?

Most likely they are looking for things that might upset the sponsors, like six-packs of Pepsi or the wrong sort of trainers.

Pocaloca

Or Richard. The guy with a bomb in his shoe was called Richard.

rugbymatt

Good to see the "sport" of the Olympics is being discussed. Don't suppose any of you lot called Jeremy Vine today did you?

Pocaloca

If only the Olympics were about sport! From today's Independent;

Britain flooded with 'brand police' to protect sponsors
"Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals...

Hundreds of uniformed Olympics officers will begin touring the country today enforcing sponsors' multimillion-pound marketing deals, in a highly organised mission that contrasts with the scramble to find enough staff to secure Olympic sites.

Almost 300 enforcement officers will be seen across the country checking firms to ensure they are not staging "ambush marketing" or illegally associating themselves with the Games at the expense of official sponsors such as Adidas, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and BP. "

Domino

they would be better employed on the Border checks at the airports etc.
that is a Trading standards matter - unless all those depts have been closed down by bankrupt local councils.

jackytoo

Aren't you getting your countries mixed up

Dick Dasterdly

You mean there's actually a connection ?

Domino

nope,
Trading Standards is part of UK's council set up
as is Health and Safety (except for large manufacturing)

Most of the councils in the UK are operating on a knife edge
closing down any/all "non-core" services such as elderly care
transferring thousands of staff to outsourcing companies
the only people left "on the books" are the senior officers and
the councillors.

jackytoo

Haven't heard of any going bankrupt as in can't pay their staff wages like Spain. Services are still the same here, even the mobile library with free DVD loan. Sure they will be cutting down...so they should.

Lynn R

I see the driver of a bus transporting athletes from the airport to the Olympic village got lost, resulting in them spending 4 hours driving around London after getting off a transatlantic flight. Their comments on Twitter weren't very complimentary.

Was G4S responsible for training the bus drivers too? Obviously haven't invested in any sat navs!

Lynn R

And on a more worrying note, I've just read on the Manchester Evening News website that Greater Manchester Police had to provide officers at short notice this weekend to protect security of athletes staying at a hotel in Worsley after staff employed by G4S failed to report for work. If the rest of us are reading this stuff, then so are the criminal fraternity and it doesn't take a genius to work out that police forces around the country are going to be over-stretched. I sincerely hope that nothing on the scale of last year's riots kicks off anywhere, as the consequences don't bear thinking about.