In the pointless spending of tax payers' money, the £9.3 billion project will produce a space which will largely be demolished again after the 3 week event is over. Promises have been made that no more that the £9.3 billion currently budgeted will be spent on the event. That would leave many to speculate that the money will simply be created out of the sale of unfordable housing that will serve no benefit for ordinary people.