Olympic Travel Chaos & Gay Marriage.

Yesterday (16/7/12) the special travel restrictions for the London Olympics came into force as athletes started to arrive for the games. It is fair to say this ended up as a bit of a shambles. An accident on the M1 motorway led to 32 mile traffic jams and the buses carrying the USA and Australian teams got lost. USA sprinter and hurdler Kerron Clement took to Twitter to complain that they'd been driving around lost for four hours and they were all tired, hungry and needed to pee.

I should explain then that transport chaos is going to be one of the defining features of the 2012 games. When the previous British Labour government bid for the games they were keen to emphasise their green credentials by making it the first public transport games. However the new administration's attitude to the environment is they see it as their duty to destroy as much of it as quickly as possible and they view climate change in much the same way the Catholic Church viewed Copernicus's discovery that the earth revolved around the sun. Therefore they intend to make transport in and around the Olympic games as difficult as possible so everyone is left totally frustrated at the idea of public transport and other forms of environmentally friendly transport.

Also today (17/7/12) the Scottish Parliament is going to discuss legalising gay marriage. This comes the day after all the British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron appeared with Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Nick Clegg to re-affirm their commitment to the governing coalition. When Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg appeared in the gardens of Downing Street to announce the formation of the coalition back in 2010 they looked so handsome as they walked into the romantic setting of the rose garden many commentators likened the scene to a gay wedding. So when people in Britain talk about their opposition to gay marriage they may not necessarily be talking about actual gay marriage. Instead they could be talking about the coalition government. After some well supported suggestions that the British Crown rigged the outcome of the 2010 election Britain is obviously keen to seek the international community's opinion of the coalition government.