Going for Gord

So Gordon Brown is going to give all of the British Olympians a gong as a reward for winning medals at the Beijing Olympics.

I wonder if they'll take pride of place in their trophy cabinets; Olympic gold with Gordons Gong next to it. Awesome sauce.

It's a somewhat desperate publicity stunt and whilst there might be a feel good factor about people from this country winning on the world stage, at home we're still plunging into a financial crisis and I don't really think the constant bombardment of awards for these people is going to take people's minds off this. With Christmas around the corner, it'll only become more evident anyway.

Bottler Brown then made me laugh when he talked about pumping more billions of pounds into sport in schools. It seems a bit of a bizarre comment since for the last 11 years Labour have been systematically destroying sport in schools!

With non-competitive sports days where everyone wins and nobody loses in addition to the widespread approval of sell-offs of enormous amounts of school playing fields to housing developers, Labour has successfully killed any chance kids of lower middle and lower class backgrounds had of getting interested in Olympic sports. The closest most kids of today will get to an Olympic medal is an ASBO.

It's no surprise over 60% of the medallists went to public schools.