The only thing that should embarrass the hon. Gentleman is his continuing failure to ask sensible and serious questions. I counsel him against believing all the lurid headlines that he reads in the newspapers. All I said, I think quite sensibly and rightly, was that if we were to host a high-quality bid for the Olympics in London, as I very much hope we will, we needed to do so seriously—we needed to be prepared to invest not just in the athletics facilities but in the transport and accommodation facilities that such a bid would require. That is sheer common sense.

I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are the Government who have established 10-year plans to improve the transport infrastructure that will deliver the investment and the improvement. The Conservative party would cut those plans, and would deliver the investment failure that would make a bid unsuccessful.