As Athens, and other unfortunate cities, have discovered, inviting the Olympic Games to come to town makes about as much sense as praying for a plague of locusts to descend on your back garden.
London, like New York and other lemming cities, is a leader in the race to host this pestilence in 2012. Tony Blair, a shrewd politician if nothing else, is obviously coming to realize that this could mean electoral trouble.
How do I know this? From this story, that’s how:
“Cherie Blair will support London’s 2012 Olympic Bid by becoming an ambassador for the project.”
Now Cherie Blair combines the charm of Lady Macbeth, the politics of Nadezhada Krupskaya, the PR skills of Leona Helmsley, the warmth of Hillary Rodham and, to wrap it up in one crystal-draped incanting package, the spiritual insight of Shirley Maclaine.
London’s bid is, therefore, now doomed.
Brilliant, Tony.