Every London home will have paid over £250 towards the 2012 Olympics in Council tax surcharge. Yet to obtain a ticket they have to enter a ballot system which fails to recognise this Londoners subsidy. With such high levels of poverty in London it seems quite likely, as with the likes of the Wimbledon tennis ticket ballots, that home counties residents will take the lions shares. Truly inequitable.

To compound things the finals and premier tickets are fully reserved and not for public sale but the gift of the Olympics Committees, corporate and media junkets.

I hope I’m wrong but these games look increasingly to have little or nothing to do with real London or Londoners.