HOW much for the Olympics?!?!

Brid, ever heard of not shitting on your doorstep?

You're an overpaid government IT worker (general assumption there - not a personal one), you're in no position whatsoever to be criticising from what money is going on and what isn't - wasteful, badly planned IT programs that are either outdated before they are implemented or just lurch from one catastrophe to another when the finally go online are a far less worthy drain on the economy than the olympics.

IT contractors living in top rate hotels for no apparent reason, flying up and down the country and generally living on the government gravy train boil my piss.

Play along with - you are a walking contradiction - if you give a shit about the government wasting money on dubious causes - work for the civil service - at least then you'll be working for a dubious cause and not be sucking money out of fiscal resources.