It has also encouraged media reports, which warn that when Albania joins the EU
the British political realm will «sound like a John la Carre novel... with political intrigue, huge sums of money going astray, criminality and double dealing.»
No matter how great an opportunity these Olympian cock - ups provide for Labour to get their own back having had the Games plucked from Tessa Jowell's clutches, the spectacle is turning out to be symptomatic of a deeper change in
British society; a transformation beyond the
realms of petty
political bickering.