Let’s stop the whinging and show the world the real GC

IT is appalling to see the constant negativity displayed by the published minority regarding the inconvenience of the Commonwealth Games.

Sure, it is an imposition on our daily lives, daily lives that are so dynamic that to allow a festival of sport and culture to interrupt it for 10 days (or even 14) is sacrilege. I mean how dare they impose this without consulting us each personally?

I am sure that the road closures, Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise looking like concentration camps and those evil “GL” Games Lanes are not necessary.

I am equally sure that the M1 could have been fixed before the Games.

Similarly I am sure that they could have shifted it away from Easter and that they could have got the ticketing system right.

They probably didn’t even have to issue political correctness “guidelines”, but they didn’t fix much and they did issue complete gobbledygook (Un-Australian to boot).

Our esteemed leadership have a lot to answer for, but let us not let that degenerate into a farcical reception for the athletes and sports people of what used to be the British Empire. My God, we as Australians know only too well the failures of leadership, both as a subservient colony and an independent nation, since when have our leaders ever got it right.

From Gallipoli to the present day antics of the Australian Parliament, we have always maintained humour, always sacrificed for others and above all “made the best of a bad deal”.

That is where we are at, so let’s stop acting aggrieved and get out and enjoy the festival about to descend on us, welcome the nations attending, show some Australian resilience and enjoy ourselves regardless of how badly we everyday citizens have been treated.

Yep, lets show the b ****** s that we are going to enjoy “our” Games despite the seemingly enormous attempts by the bickering politicians to ensure we won’t by sterilising the whole event.

Time to live the legendary (real or imagined) swagger of being an Aussie and the welcoming of all and sundry to our fair city will be remembered long after the politicians and media tarts have faded into obscurity. BARRY C,

CARRARA