Olympic Handover to London 2012. A Celebration of...Hip Hop??!

Picture the scene: It's a warm afternoon in Beijing on August 24th 2008. The Olympic Games are being wound down in the closing ceremony. As with every one of the previous Games, the present hosts hand over to the next hosts, this time it'll be for London 2012.

With the eyes of the watching world, and in their infinite wisdom, the PC-obsessed organisers of London 2012 feel that a troop of Street Dancers best represent all that is good and progressive about Europe's biggest city.

Yes, a load of American-influenced youths best represents all that there is about our Capital. A bunch of stereotype wannabes are to represent me.

No thanks...

As talented as some of these kids are, I can't help but yawn profusely when I see or hear the phrase "Street Culture". From my standpoint, there is nothing positive whatsoever that comes from it. It's anti-intellectual, aggressive, misogynistic, materialistic and quite stale to be frank.

I for one will be asking our new Mayor, Boris Johnson to rekindle his disdain for this kind of thing, and kick this whole proposal to the kerb. Surely we can do better than this...