Originally Posted by
surge
But what about our games? There was controversy about the involvement of the organisation deciding whether disabled people were fit for work and the numbers of those dying shortly after, about ordinary fish and chip sellers doing business within x miles of the Olympic stadium, about money being diverted from charity groups for many years in order to pay for it, about magazine articles criticising what deserved to be criticised being squashed.
It's strange that we don't remember these sort of things and it's compared favourably to Beijing in terms of freedom of expression.