An architect is moaning that budget cuts could turn the Olympics into a "plasterboard and tarmac" affair. his view is that big-name architects chould be paid a lot of money to design flashy buildings that would be as memorable as the Millennium Dome or Diana's Fountain.
But plasterboard and tarmac sounds good to me. Why not earmark just a million quid (which is actually a lot of money) and get some local building firms to design some reasonable running tracks, etc? Don't bother about fitting audiences into stadiums - we can all watch it on telly anyway if we want to.
Our local secondary school hosts a very adequate sports day on tracks that cost far less than a million.
"What of Britain's prestige?" you ask."Wont the rest of the world giggle if we reveal ourselves to be cheapskates?"
No.
What could be more prestigious than to say in a holier-than-thou voice that it's all been done with the least waste of the planet's valuable resources?
Let's scatter a few recycled ashes to make a track, hire a tent for the boxing and gym displays and use a local pool for the swimming.
And above all save money by cutting out the architects.
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