Government funding madness!

[Albedo]

Do you just patrol the site waiting for Ted to say this...:lol:

 

Tony S is in one of his hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian moods:001_smile:

[WorcsWuss]

FTR, I live in a council house, .

 

I don't think there's a stigma attached to that anymore Andy, it's just a rented house like any other rented house [apart from the fact it gets maintained better than a privately rented house...!].

Not to mention the fact that many 'council houses' have been changing hands for more than my house is worth.....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

How many people do I work for are on minimum wage? Or earn below the basic breadline? Or live in social housing? Or drive a Vauxhall Corsa? Or shop at Asda? Simple answer is none. How many do I work for are in high value houses, drive the latest big 4x4, have Harrods deliver groceries cos they can, employ a gardener, employ a cleaner, employ someone to wash their car, and pay party organisers to organise parties? All of them. That is how they spread their income into the local economy. They will buy the locally sourced free range organic pork and lamb, the single mum can't afford too, and they will buy a locally sourced locally grown Xmas tree, the single mum will recycle the twenty year old plastic tree from Woolies once again. It's not about being elitist, it's not about a caste system, it's not about them and us, it's a case of we all work one way or another to better ourselves, and to have things we wish to have. I'm very much on the Planet Earth, that I share with all of you, I do the same work as you do, only better, , and I share your passions for the trees that I plant nurture and tend, before eventually felling them.

FTR, I live in a council house, But I speak to people as they wish to be spoken to, and that is reflected in the way I am treated, and respected, for the work I do. Having a chip on the shoulder is very visible, and people can see this, it's in the way you carry yourself, the way you look at them, and the way you work for them.

I don't snub people because I disagree with their point of view, or their social standing, whether they are of a higher social standing or lower, we're all human.

 

thats why your a good little cash cow for them, you are bought into the PR

[One Buck]

How much tax will the people in your average audience at the Opera pay?? How many people will their business employ?? How many privately educate their children and pay for private health care, while still paying NI , but hey lets not let them benefit in anyway from all the tax's they pay lets just keep giving more and more to the free loading spongers who spend their whole taking and never giving.

 

"How much tax will the people in your average audience at the Opera pay?"

Less than their cleaner!

[HCR]

O.K, this isnt a joke, this is for real.

 

the government feel it is appropriate to fund opera (not the arts just Opera) to the tune of 28 million.

 

they want to cut the FC funding from 20 million to 13million.

 

 

what do you all think of those priorities?

 

What's your source for this?

 

The government doesn't 'own' opera so can't really fund it per se. Are you talking about an Arts Council award? That's lottery money, not exchequer funds. The Arts Council has no remit to fund forestry.

[elicokiz]

Tony S is in one of his hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian moods:001_smile:

 

Wow thats one long word ive now learned to describe a long word

[Andy Collins]

thats why your a good little cash cow for them, you are bought into the PR

 

really Tony? You need to listen to yourself and wonder why your life has stagnated, why you never got your "break", why all your opportunities and dreams have never amounted to much. All this quasi-political posturing does nothing but make you bitter. Life's too short, just enjoy it a little while you save the planet, I do.

[Albedo]

Wow thats one long word ive now learned to describe a long word

 

 

I got it off Wicki....it was love at first sight... I'm just trying to be able to say it now....never mind remember it:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What's your source for this?

 

The government doesn't 'own' opera so can't really fund it per se. Are you talking about an Arts Council award? That's lottery money, not exchequer funds. The Arts Council has no remit to fund forestry.

 

was trying to track it down, spent the day reading stuff! will find the exact source and return:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

really Tony? You need to listen to yourself and wonder why your life has stagnated, why you never got your "break", why all your opportunities and dreams have never amounted to much. All this quasi-political posturing does nothing but make you bitter. Life's too short, just enjoy it a little while you save the planet, I do.

 

Andy Im over the dreams mate, my life is stagnant? you gotta be kidding me, i have been turning stuff down.

 

quasi- political posturing, and you lot wonder why I have an opinion on AT!

 

I tell you what Andy, when the likes of me have all but assigned ourselves to accept a Euro job offer thats so far and removed from my U.K potential and pay grade and leave you all to your own devices its not I that needs to listen, its YOU.

 

The U.K is backwards, and until only recent days has talk of european connections and collaboration been spoken of in this area, long overdue.