The BBC, Ofcom and now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments?
Charlotte Higgins
You take the money from politics then politics will determine how much money there is and who gets it.
That’s actually the point of politics, to decide over the disposition of our shared and communal resources.
tl;dr. The Left politicises institutions, then complains when people notice and try to do something about it.
The Tories have benn doing exactly NOT that for years. That is why these places have gone to buggery. Blair’s placemen ( more often women ) have right royally bolloxed up nearly every “great” institution in this country and the Conservatives kept on appointing the same people.
Cant and hypocrisy one could cut with a cricket bag.
the Conservatives kept on appointing the same people.
The Conservatives are the same people. One just has to look at the limp wristed shirt lifter William Wragg, he of the indiscriminate scrolling finger.
Ottokring,
“The Tories have benn doing exactly NOT that for years. That is why these places have gone to buggery. ”
I keep saying that the left really have no clue about how far the political spectrum goes and how nice the “evil tories” are. Like you’ve got the RMT striking, while the Tories are blowing billions on subsidising trains, building new railways, a lot of which just ends up going into RMT workers pockets. You’d think they’d be grateful. Because a proper, right-winger would just cut that off, end all the rail projects.
“ The Tories have benn doing exactly NOT that for years. That is why these places have gone to buggery. Blair’s placemen ( more often women ) have right royally bolloxed up nearly every “great” institution in this country and the Conservatives kept on appointing the same people”
As bis points out, most of the Conservative Party MPs are either Blairites or even to the left of him.
I read that as William Hague for a moment, BiS!
I liked this cartoon in The Spectator:
https://archive.ph/zFuHc
I read that as William Hague for a moment, BiS!
Most likely on Wragg’s list of numbers, though (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
Reading the testimony about the Post Office Scandal gives a perfect illustration of how this country and its institutions have been wrecked.
Fostering a climate of complacency and incompetence, trousering huge sums of money and getting a gong at the end of it. You name it: from the Post Office, Railtrack, National Trust, Food Standards anything at all where political clout determines who gets the job produces the same result.
What we should foster instead are closer relations for these people with hungry lions.