Sometimes we Brits want to brag. We do such a good job of beating ourselves up over everything from football to the slave trade that when we get something right, totally spot-on, it feels good to shout about it.
So I am. We have done an amazing job with the Olympics. We've finished an incredibly difficult job with time to spare and under budget. Fact - the price was £496m and we got it done for £486m. Fact - we were due to complete on June 6 and we were done and dusted by March 31, with all the paperwork tied up as well.
No mean feat. The team did a stupendous job, so applause please. Everyone likes to knock, it's our national pastime. We like to see the mighty fallen. It's a peculiarly British trait, you don't see the Americans slagging off their own. Much more likely to say all things Stateside are the biggest and the best.
Now at last we have something to be really proud of. Have you seen the Olympic buildings? The designs are enough to make a dead man gasp and the transformation of the run-down Stratford area will be a legacy for generations. More than all of that, despite the size of the job and the complexity involved, no one died. Not one accidental death. That alone is worth the celebration. So well done everyone on the Olympic Delivery Authority, you're the best.
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