The BBBC, the Jubilee and the Olympics; game for a laugh!

Some excellent news about the upcoming Nuremburg Rally aka the Olympic Games. The IOC booked 40,000 hotel rooms for its party of freeloaders and hangers-on. Yes, rooms for the whole duration, not, as I had originally thought, room nights. Naturally this created a shortage so the hotels increased their rates by as much as 400%. So guess what. 30% are unsold even at this late stage. It seems that tourists are giving London the cold shoulder. So much for the economic boost we were promised when we were unfortunate enough to beat the French for the venue. Hollande must be doing handstands.

We had a similar experience in Jamaica during the cricket World Cup. The hotels doubled their rates. And nobody came!

We hear also that London’s biggest mini-cab firm has instructed its drivers to ignore the ’Zil’ lanes which close off London streets to all but the mighty. And a class action is being brought against the organisers by traders who will be unable to access their businesses.  The DT reports that Dave is so worried about a backlash from Londoners that the issue is high on the agenda at No. 10.

Apparently, a screen is to be erected along the beach at Weymouth to prevent owners of beach-front houses from getting a free peep at the yachting events. That should keep the fire service busy the night before the event.

‘At scenes so tragic I could scarce forbear to laugh’.

Meanwhile, the Beeb is having its arse kicked from here to breakfast time over its pathetic coverage of the Jubilee. There have been no less than 2.500 complaints direct to the BBC. We have seen blogs and e-mails from all over the world slating the airheads who gave what passed for commentary. It seems that the majority had no experience whatsoever in commentating on anything at all. They even brought Anneka Rice back from the dead. She was last seen about 40 years ago and was famous only for her shapely bum

We would not have dreamt of watching the concert. Having seen the cast list, Buck House must have looked like the place where the elephants go to die.

Here is what the DT had to say.

BBC staff were reluctant to speak on the record yesterday, but they had some pithy views in private. “The –––– is really hitting the fan here over the Jubilee coverage, especially the river pageant. Skin and hair flying,” said another senior journalist. “It was a disastrous mistake to do it in the style of The One Show. It needed a father-and-son [Peter and Dan] Snow job.”

The even more hilarious news is that the head of the service responsible for this fiasco is a front runner to take over the top job of DG when the present overpaid nincompoop leaves.

And it’s not even the Silly Season yet!