1,925 hotel rooms booked at up to £3,000 per night for Olympic nobs

The scandal continues. Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics have block-booked 1,925 rooms in expensive London hotels for various hangers-on at a cost of £10 million.

Hangers-on have been allocated 345 suites costing up to £3,000 a night at six Park Lane hotels including the Dorchester, the Hilton and Grosvenor House. British taxpayers, London ratepayers and lottery ticket buyers will of course pay for it all.

The International Olympic Committee even indicated it was surprised at the extravagance. At the Beijing Games this summer hangers-on will stay in only two five-star hotels, with some booked into cheaper accommodation.

The hangers-on in London will be given the use of a fleet of over 3,000 chauffeur-driven cars. Londoners will be cleared out of the way on the route to the Olympic Games site which is somewhere in the middle of the East End so the hangers-on can be taken there in about 20 minutes if they can be "bovvered" to show up.