Let Paris have them - it's not too late

Already the cost of the Olympic games looks likely to be double original estimates.

Already top people are leaving the project because of inefficiencies and nonsense.

Already the project is hurting other areas of our national life - better causes will be underfunded because Lottery money is being wasted on this project.

Remember the Millennium Dome.

Remember the Diana Fountain.

Remember when they promised that Wembley Stadium would be ready in 2004.

Would Britain be humiliated if we handed the whole shebang over to Paris? Not as much as we will be when we host a Games in incomplete and inadequate stadia. Or when security issues ruin the entire event.

This is not the sort of thing the nation should be spending its money on.

More argument will follow.