I just can’t believe these pampered fools don’t get the economics. Don’t they have any idea of what is going on in today’s global financial circles? If not here’s the news Stars- Profligate spending by government on unaffordable budget items has bankrupted most of Europe and the UK is no exception. What part of “there is no more money” do you not understand?

When defence forces have to be cut back, and airforce pilots have their training bought to a premature end, why the hell should money be spent on theatre? What selfish spoilt brat entitlement mentality narcissists. The Guardian reports-

Cuts are set to wipe out the entire arts budgets in Somerset and in the London borough of Barnet, as well as half of the arts funding in Birmingham. Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres are losing 20% of their funding, and the Hull Truck Theatre has had £100,000 lopped from its budget.

Here is what one of these arrogant liberal dupes has to say on the issue-

“The cuts are a kind of idiocy,” said television and stage star Tim Pigott-Smith. “These people are buffoons and philistines. We cannot rely on an endless supply of good actors and directors with no investment. Funding is already right on the edge and these will not be cuts; they will be amputations.”

Hey Tim, money forcibly extracted from taxpayers and donated by vote buying politicians to sectors of the economy that suit you personally is not “investment”.

In a letter published in the Observer, the actors – including Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Maxine Peake, Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Helen Mirren – point out that, although the current subsidy to performing arts is small, “the return on the investment is staggering and all too often understated”. Their letter claims that live entertainment, TV drama and the film industry together contribute £7bn to the UK economy each year. It concludes: “If we are serious about rebuilding our economy, culture cannot and should not be an easy target for cuts.”

What always staggers me about these kind of complaints is why the media never asks these damn fools why it is that if the services (in this case theatre) are so good, and capable of generating such a return, why the hell are they dependent upon taxpayer money. Why can’t they seek private finance? Its a question seldom asked and never answered.