Daily Telegraph: Part-time Olympic staff 'paid £7m'

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:  "When London bid for the 2012 Olympics, we were told it was a golden opportunity to showcase the capital and encourage sport.

"Now we've got the Games, it seems to be a tawdry money-making exercise for a few fat cats at taxpayers' expense.  No wonder people were so disillusioned."