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BerlinIron 11:50 Fri Jan 20
London Mayor to investigate Olympic Stadium

Breaking: @MayorofLondon investigation into Olympic Stadium to examine every aspect from original design to negotiations with #WHUFC 1/2

bubbleblower 11:52 Fri Jan 20
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He bloody loves the spotlight doesn't he, the smarmy twat?

Ooooh what will get me headlines - I know, the former Olympic stadium.

goose 11:53 Fri Jan 20
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what a complete waste of time. just a PR stunt.

move on.

unless of course you intend to drag Jowell/Livingstone/Coe through the streets of London. im okay with that.

Northern Sold 11:54 Fri Jan 20
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He's investigating why it's so shit??

stewie griffin 11:59 Fri Jan 20
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If it's possible, I hate this cunt even more than I hate the stadium. Proper populist soundbyte cunt who has done precisely nothing about anything that actually matters.


Here's your investigation, cunt, Coe, Jowell and Livingstone insisted that no football club would ever play there. The Olympics finished, and everyone went 'oh fuck, now we're stuck with this piece of shit'. West Ham United were the only ones arse licky enough to say it shouldn't be torn down. Fin.

goose 12:00 Fri Jan 20
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knock the fucking thing down. start again.

simon.s 12:02 Fri Jan 20
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Sort out the trains, you useless cunt.

1964 12:05 Fri Jan 20
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This announcement can't be a co-incidence that it's just before the BBC aires it's propaganda programme on Monday is it.

Just Kahn showboating as is his norm!

Sniper 12:08 Fri Jan 20
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Instead of investigating the cost why don't they investigate why it cost so much for the conversion to be so shit?

1964 12:13 Fri Jan 20
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A high-powered investigation team will next month be appointed to probe the “complete and utter mess” of the finances of West Ham’s new home at the London Stadium.

Mayor Sadiq Khan’s officials today revealed they have approached “several independent companies” about conducting the enquiry into how the costs of converting the former Olympic athletics stadium at Stratford were allowed to “skyrocket.”

The investigation was first announced in November but Mr Khan today pledged that the “no stones unturned” audit will examine all aspects of the troubled financial history of the stadium.

Mr Khan said: “There are some huge questions that need to be answered about the financing of the London Stadium. We need to find out how on earth the transformation costs were allowed to skyrocket, and whether appropriate checks were made before key decisions were made.
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“But just as important in this process will be looking to the future to ensure we get the stadium into a situation where we are able to reduce its cost to the taxpayer and it can operate as a successful multi-purpose stadium that our city can be proud of.”

The bill for turning the arena where Sir Mo Farah, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford struck gold into a replacement for the Hammers’ Boleyn Ground has soared to £323 million, some £50 million more than forecast by Mr Khan’s predecessor Boris Johnson.

Issues that will investigated include:

The negotiations that led to the plans for the conversion of the stadium from Olympic athletics stadium to “multi-use arena."

How the financial and operations projections that underpinned the use of public money spent on the works were drawn up and who was responsible for them.

Whether the work leading up to the key decisions “was sufficiently robust” to ensure value for money for the taxpayer.

The stadium’s future financial viability.

Under the terms of their deal with the London Legacy Development Corporation, West Ham contributed only £15 million towards the conversion cost with the rest met by the taxpayer.

The annual bill for running the stadium has been inflated by higher than expected costs for installing and operating retractable seating that can be removed for concerts and athletics events during the summer. This was originally estimated as a five day job costing £300,000 but will in fact take three times as long and cost around £8 million.

West Ham won the bid to occupy the Olympic Stadium in March 2013 and played their first game there in August 2016, after 112 years at their former home in Upton Park. However, early games were blighted by crowd trouble and violence.

stewie griffin 12:15 Fri Jan 20
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hahahahahaha....love that shit.....yes, let's look only at the conversion costs, because that way you won't have to apportion any blame to the fucking morons in your own party that constructed the piece of shit in the first place.

Embarrassing prick

Sven Roeder 12:22 Fri Jan 20
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What would be the best thing for the taxpayer?

After the 2017 World Athletics Championships it should be accepted that the venue has no future as an athletics/football venue particularly as the Olympics will not be in London again in decades.
The conversion costs each summer are ludicrous and unsustainable.

Conclusion : Hand the stadium to West Ham and allow them to commence work to convert the stadium into a football ground.
That may require digging the pitch down a few feet to allow seating to come right up to the pitch.

1964 12:26 Fri Jan 20
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Dig down = 80,000 capacity (est)

A lot of people have predicted that the taxpayer will want to wash it's hands of this burden and the stadium will be handed to West Ham within 10 years.

Northern Sold 12:28 Fri Jan 20
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They CANNOT did down as the place is built on radio active sludge.... ie a cesspit


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/20/radioactive-waste-olympic-site

Arko 12:28 Fri Jan 20
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Who at West Ham would actually do the buying then?
Besides, can anyone really see them getting rid of the athletics legacy this early?
And the tribal rivals fans will kick up a stink if West Ham were to get the offer to buy...

goose 12:29 Fri Jan 20
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fuck digging down - build it up instead, like a castle.

Russ of the BML 12:30 Fri Jan 20
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The way I see it was that the OC needed West Ham. They needed us to move in so it didn't look like a waste of taxpayers money. The problem was that when they designed they didn't recognise this fact. By the time the Olympics was over they recognised this and West Ham saved them from major embarrassment. If the OC and government got their accounting wrong and the costs have risen then that's their fucking problem. Not ours.

park chan wook 12:31 Fri Jan 20
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So every. Summer to take the seats back and then back in to football mode will cost £8 million? What a total Shit piece of stadia.

Genghis Khan should just sell it to us. Investigate the pricks who designed it and there mongo Olympics legacy. Who gives a Shit about athletics anyways.

Willtell 12:38 Fri Jan 20
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The London Stadium was a legacy of Labour wasn't it? If I remember correctly, it was rubbished as a waste of money at the time it was proposed but overridden by socialist dogma....

1964 12:39 Fri Jan 20
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Northern Sold 12:28 Fri Jan 20

That Guardian article says the waste is 250 metres to the north of the stadium so it infers the actual pitch has no contamination.

Toe Rag 12:40 Fri Jan 20
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How much is this utterly pointless investigation going to cost?

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