Box Hill community newsletter banned by LOCOG

Notice how Mr Crow and chums know that they can push for being paid off to keep on best behaviour for the duration.

Interesting semi debate on London Cyclist about the probity of some of the deals, which in some cases is beginning to unwind and this petition is part of the campaign

"The UK's winning Olympic bid included huge tax breaks for corporate sponsors. As a result, massive multinationals stand to make a tax-free fortune all at our expense.

If enough of us complain, then it might scare these image-conscious companies into backing down and refusing their Olympic tax-dodge.

Please add your name to the petition and shame these Olympic corporate sponsors into doing the right thing, sign the petition now."

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/olympic-tax-dodging-petition?utm_...

What if everybody decided not to buy McDonalds and Coca Cola during the games, and maybe after the games? Maybe they would learn a lesson in corporate greed? :D.How feasible would it be for a rich sympathetic local business person to pay for FREE distribution of the newsletter. Maybe have 100 T-shirt wearers near the event?

I shall be glad when all the unpleasantness is over...roll on Autumn and a chance to take some time off and ride my bike where and when I want.

I prefer my sport at a participatory level...I get greater benefit from doing it than watching it.

LimPicks...go suck.

We as a nation are WEAK!
Don't let corporate bullies dictate to us!
WE ARE A DEMOCRACY!

Stand up to them!

The Italians and French have got it right, a law is unenforceable if the majority do not comply.
show LOCOG et all that we are not compliant lemmings oiling thier profiteering scams (there are too many to list and it's continuously growing!)

The olympics were a show of unity and sportsmanship,now it sadly is just a pocket lining exercise.

I hope Boxhill community and all shop keepers,schools,towns,villages etc. DEFY LOW-BOG and continue with their intended display of olympic spirit.

Can someone put a case for our human rights against the olympic committees?

I hope this can be resolved for the spectators sake.

Enjoy the summer everyone!

SHAME on everyone associated with LOCOG.

Personally, I would go ahead and sell whatever I wished (obviously without taking the Michael).

I would make sure that my subsequent arrest/incarceration/fines etc received as much Press (Guerilla or otherwise) and I would show this whole Olympic Games sham up or what it is - organised gangsterism ..... as is much of the increasing Corporate/Big Buisness filth we seem to put up with in this country.

Your average Joe has no idea what is going on with the sponsorship "shutdowns" surrounding these games ... People think I'm crazy when I tell them the details regarding, Drinks brands, Food Brands, Clothing, etc that is permissable within the "Olympic Area".

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

... and no, I'm not joking.

Military Lockdown, Weapons on top of peoples homes, Coca Cola, McDonalds, VISA dictating how you go about your daily business within the "Olympic Area".

WAKE UP BRITAIN!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, F•••ing angry!!!!

PS - Go Wiggo, the country's all behind you...

Quote:

Official drink of Games is Coca-Cola

Official restaurant of the Games McDonald's

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/olympic-tax-dodging

Stumpy I know it's a couple of hours from Tyneside on the train but I'm pretty certain there are still tickets available for the matches at Hampden in Spain's group.

Official drink of Games is Coca-Cola

Official chocolate is Cadbury

Official restaurant of the Games McDonald's

Official disease is Type 2 Diabetes

Stumps last time I looked there were still tickets for GB vs Brazil in 'Boro tomorrow night (warm up game)- would you lad like that?

I'm looking forward to the Olympics - haven't got any tickets though!

Thank God it will only be here once in my lifetime.

Apart from having my annual leave banned whilst its on - i have 2 school children and the first 3 weeks of their hols is whilst the Olympics is on.

Then having to work longer hours and rest days because G4F'ingS cant get its arse into gear so we have to cover

AND FINALLY

I cant take my laddie to see any of the footie matches at St James' Park (Brazil and Spain are playing) cos all the tickets have gone to corporate f'ing businesses from down south.

Good riddance to the whole bloody lot when its over

RANT OVER !

In Reading emergency long term sewerage works were needed on the route that the tourch was going. The council were threatened with legal action for changing the proposed route. Quite rightly the council still went ahead with the works!! Don't let these people push you around. They already have numerous PR disasters to deal with - Poor security training/foreign wstaf working at games/foreigners carring the torch/3rd world living facilities for the cleaners/restriction on sale of chips! Have I missed any? (I expect this list to get longer!)

Bullies!

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” Benito Mussolini.

LOCOGs Olympic legacy is the feeling of being ripped off and now charities ... LOCOG = corporate Lowlife

Last time I checked, the rpoad races were being held on, as the name implies, roads.

Public Highways, on which we all have the right to conduct our business unhindered.

Unless there is copyright infringement or aunauthorised use of trademarks I can see what powers LOCOG has to enfirce such a ban.

Oh, I forgot, the Olympics has given us the final push into Banana Republic (OK, Banana Monarchy) status, with its Zil lanes, closure of heavily used towpaths on "security" grounds, location of missile batteries on the roof of residential blocks etc.

To be honest this is such a British response to a ridiculous situation.
These LOCOG goons are only getting away with it because they know they probably can. The British taxpayers, who after all are coughing up the vast majority of the dough for the Olympics, should stage a huge act of civil disobedience and tell the LOCOG lot where to stuff their rules and their exclusion zones and their car lanes and entrance fees.
There are more of us than there is of them.
But we wont. I doubt French farmers or Spanish miners would be so compliant.

The most ludicrous aspect of this is that a community newsletter - aside from its potential benefit to the community - does absolutely no harm whatsoever to the sponsors' investment. Enforce rules on the selling of sports equipment and food? If you must. But a community newsletter? How on earth does that prejudice the return on the investment made by sponsors? This is farcical...

Locog, 'move over, get out of our trough'.££££££££.

says it all about the Olympics. We had someone come in today to check our Oakley display met their criteria. We are in Bristol, we stock olympic assosciated products.
They should concentrate on making it the great show it should be rather than all this bullshit that goes along with it.

Welcome to London 2012 (tm). Compete, pay up or get out.

I love the Olympics but I utterly loathe the disgusting monopolies of profiteering that accompany it.

The more I read about the stranglehold big business has over the Olympics, and the disgraceful way LOCOG enables it, the more infuriated I become.
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