{"id":292,"date":"2007-03-20T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/20\/olympics_the_fake_consultations"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:15:50","slug":"olympics_the_fake_consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/20\/olympics_the_fake_consultations","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: the fake consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Monbiot, in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2037891,00.html\">the fake consultations<\/a> which accompany the Olympic developments in east London: chiefly, the difficulties one had to go to in order to get copies of the plans, which included going through a website which, &quot;(like everything to do with the Olympics) is plagued by technical glitches&quot;, or paying \u00a3500 for a hard copy of the documents, or waiting a couple of weeks (out of six) for the library to do, or trying to get documents over the phone from someone who does not know what you&#39;re talking about.  He also mentions that &quot;regeneration&quot;, while often justified in terms of benefit to local &quot;poor&quot; people, often drives them out when the rents and house prices go up.  (Also, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/08\/30\/railroading_east_london\">this entry<\/a>, about similar goings-on over rebuilding one of the railways around Stratford.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Monbiot, in today&#39;s Guardian, on the fake consultations which accompany the Olympic developments in east London: chiefly, the difficulties one had to go to in order to get copies of the plans, which&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics_2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-4I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}