It’s the 10 year anniversary of 2012 Olympics leaving people to reflect on state of UK now

London 2012 showed our capital at its best.

Today I joined Olympians & Paralympians to celebrate London's sporting legacy.

We announced £17m collaborative sports funding that will create new opportunities for young Londoners to thrive. pic.twitter.com/4ZTZPQtYFB

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) July 22, 2022

Ten years since London 2012. I remember watching the opening ceremony and thinking “we’ve cracked it — progressive, inclusive, outward looking, and everyone’s cheering”. It’s the most wrong I’ve been since predicting in 1987 that London house prices could not rise any higher. pic.twitter.com/DKLlQKIpMc

— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) July 25, 2022

https://twitter.com/paulread3000/status/1551921376688328705

Hard to believe that the London Olympics was just 10 years ago, the UK feels so different now as a society that it feels like it was in a different century 😥 https://t.co/p9C0qN2jqv

— Kamruz Jaman (@jammykam) July 26, 2022

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I vividly remember watching this with our new baby and feeling so happy and positive about London 2012. How things have changed. https://t.co/QGCuU80dBC

— orchidsonmybudget 🦖 (@orchidsbudget) July 26, 2022

Man, Tories were already in power.

— andy peacock (@AndyPeacock999) July 26, 2022

We were so proud to be British and we looked forward to a bright future for ourselves and our children. And yet, here we are ten years later… So sad, so unnecessary, so incomprehensible.

— Katey Sexton (@KateySexton) July 24, 2022

It was such a high. It also masked the lows we were feeling then – Osborne being booed for austerity, the tremors of ‘Europe’ before Brexit etc etc. The NHS taking centre stage even as funding was being slashed.

— Damian Barr (@Damian_Barr) July 25, 2022

The obsession with the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony is revealing, because this faction think Britain was a utopian wonderland at the time – it wasn't, it was 4 years after an epic financial crash and the Tories were hacking the British welfare state into tiny little pieces.

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 10, 2022

For East London, which has some of the poorest parts of the UK, the Olympics was economically transformative.

Sadly, it masked the utter socioeconomic destruction that was starting thanks to David Cameron & Nick Clegg.

— Anton 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (@AntacsB) July 26, 2022