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Tory culture spokesman Hugo Swire said: 'It now seems quite clear that the initial budget was done on the back of a fag packet and that Tessa Jowell's department have lost control of the potential costs. 'We will be calling for Tessa Jowell to come to Parliament and confess just how big the cost is likely to be.'

In the paper "London Lite" on 21st November it stated that Jowell and Livingstone had in fact agreed to the enormous Olympic budget in 1 hour.

Seems unsurprising for Gambling Minister Jowell, with a husband on Mafia corruption charges. And of course the VAT error of £0.25 billion is a mere peccadillo, at least compared to the overall 'error', likely to be in the region of £8.0 billion. And of course the resignation of the Chairman of the Olympics authority over the high level of land toxicity - well its got to be remembered that the Mafia do have extra cheap and fast methods of waste disposal.

But I would have though better of Ken, the pensioner's friend and supplier of free bus passes to the poor and needy. Why surely he is as open and honest as the late Huey Long; many even consider him an anti-Semite.

It seems that Jowell and Livingstone are old pals from their Camden Council days, and doubtless it was just like old times to say "Seig Heil" to one another over the matter of a little rubbsh disposal.

IMO: I am a London Council Tax payer and it takes a lot for that persecuted minority to laugh nowadays.