The only culture the Tories worship is greed, the only art they respect is that of deception

Good riddance: Former Culture Secretary Maria Miller drives away after leaving Parliament

Maria Miller’s resignation letter ran to way past 300 words.

In it, the outgoing minister penned the word “I” 11 times yet didn’t once write the one that defined why she was supposed to be in Government.

Culture wasn’t in the text (although she did manage to squeeze a “cultural” past her tears of self-serving, self-pity).

The lack of reference to her job was reflected in the narrative of the ­week-long saga, dominated as it was by... “How do you solve a problem like expenses, sleaze, mortgage, unreserved apology, error of judgment, Leveson, became a distraction, etc, etc?”

Lost in translation was the sole reason taxpayers were giving Miller a £67,000-a-year ministerial salary on top of the £66,000 she is paid as an MP. To nurture the nation’s cultural well-being.

The one question not asked when she was booted out was “How do you replace a luvvie like Maria?”

Mainly because she was as visible in the arts world as a stage extra in the rear end of a panto horse.

According to arts journalists, not only did Miller not care about culture, she didn’t pretend to care.

Like fellow heathen Jeremy Hunt before her, she treated the job as a stepping stone to higher office, the way to prove her fitness for promotion being to slash budgets and lecture experts.

She gave only one speech of note, in which she said arts funding should be based on “the economic benefits” it brings.





Even worse? New Culture Secretary Sajid Javid

In other words, think of milking the tourists, schmoozing the corporates, and sorting out my seats for Wimbledon. Think Royal Opera House 10, West Yorkshire Playhouse nil.

Not that David Cameron cared.

Look who he’s made the new Culture Secretary. Sajid Javid, an investment banker whose favourite leisure activity is “taking my time over a smooth cigar,” whose only known artistic passion is Star Trek and who fervently believes in ticket touts because they “fill a gap in the market”.

Now there’s a culture vulture to inspire a new generation of artistic talent.

It’s all about “the market” with this mob, isn’t it?

Cameron and Co leap on Oscar nominees and Olympians for photo ops and dredge up Shakespeare and Britpop to bang on about our ­creative genius.

But as they slash 5% off the arts budgets, they don’t care where the next generation of actors, ­playwrights or musicians are coming from. Or rather, how much potential falls by the wayside.

Recently, Julie Walters, Brian Cox, Helen Mirren and Stephen McGann have spoken about their concern at the lack of working-class actors coming through.




Concerns: Julie Walters is among those worried about working class talent

They said that when they were young, kids from council estates could attend thriving theatres, free acting workshops and get grants to go to RADA.

Now, they claim, the only kids who can afford to get into acting are the rich. Hence public schoolkids like Dominic West, Damian Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch landing all the plum roles.

But we reap what we sow.

If Britain wants to stymie artistic talent, elect a Prime Minister who is so paranoid about his privileged background he’ll put unsuitable ­ministers in charge of the arts, so long as they tick the gender and ethnic boxes that make him look inclusive.

And those ministers will take the job and do the cuts if it gets them up the greasy pole, grabbing whatever their mitts can plunder along the way.

As the Miller’s tale shows, we’ve become a nation of philistines, encouraged to worship only one culture: Greed

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Tory Scum     

We need to overthrow capitalism, and replace it with a more socialist model!

    

Remind me how many Labour MPs are in prison for fiddling their expenses. Remind which very left wing Speaker Gorbals Mick spent on trying to block the Telegraph revealing major fraud by MPs particulalrly the 4 who ended up in prison.

If you want greed and corruption look to Labour who do it best.


Of course as a benefit fraudster yourself you know you lefties are the most corrupt.  

Alright said Fred wrote:Remind me how many Labour MPs are in prison for fiddling their expenses. Remind which very left wing Speaker Gorbals Mick spent on trying to block the Telegraph revealing major fraud by MPs particulalrly the 4 who ended up in prison.

If you want greed and corruption look to Labour who do it best.


Of course as a benefit fraudster yourself you know you lefties are the most corrupt.  

Well go at bit further back and chuck in Aitken and Archer for their crimes as well as committing perjury in a British court of law and in the case of Aitken coercing his family members to do the same. Chuck in Hanningfield and Taylor from the HoL and it balanced up a bit.

Some people get to say sorry and some people don't but in any event the corruption and downright cheating is rife.

Alright said Fred wrote:Remind me how many Labour MPs are in prison for fiddling their expenses. Remind which very left wing Speaker Gorbals Mick spent on trying to block the Telegraph revealing major fraud by MPs particulalrly the 4 who ended up in prison.

If you want greed and corruption look to Labour who do it best.


Of course as a benefit fraudster yourself you know you lefties are the most corrupt.  

Can you provide evidence, as to why you think that i'm a benefit fraudster, you ignorant piece of crap?

Perhaps it pisses Tory scum like you, Drinky, that i went up against the DWP and won my case!

      

You'd think people would want to get better rather than "win" more benefits.

Raggamuffin wrote:You'd think people would want to get better rather than "win" more benefits.

Perhaps some went through various programs etc, then failed to get better, because they couldn't get better?

Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

sphinx wrote:Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

Don't you think that was beneath you Sphinx? When you are at your lowest, do you have to still keep on looking after someone else?

Catman wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:You'd think people would want to get better rather than "win" more benefits.

Perhaps some went through various programs etc, then failed to get better, because they couldn't get better?

Perhaps some of them don't want to ...

Oh look, Rags is so big and bwave, she can pull the wings off flies. I'm sure some will be impressed.

Sassy wrote:Oh look, Rags is so big and bwave, she can pull the wings off flies.   I'm sure some will be impressed.

I'm not like your friend Victor you know - he shoots animals, but I wouldn't hurt a fly ...

Only with words, that's more of a cowards way and Victor shoots to eat rather than have someone else do it for him and close his eyes and pretend it doesn't exist.

Sassy wrote:Only with words, that's more of a cowards way and Victor shoots to eat rather than have someone else do it for him and close his eyes and pretend it doesn't exist.

He eats squirrels?

So you're a coward then - after all, you're posting on a forum the same way I am.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Sassy wrote:Only with words, that's more of a cowards way and Victor shoots to eat rather than have someone else do it for him and close his eyes and pretend it doesn't exist.

He eats squirrels?

So you're a coward then - after all, you're posting on a forum the same way I am.

No, I don't pick on people who I know have problems, that's your territory.   Unless you are owning up to having mental health issues, and I'm holding you to account for your views, not picking on you because I know you are weaker.

Sassy wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

He eats squirrels?

So you're a coward then - after all, you're posting on a forum the same way I am.

No, I don't pick on people who I know have problems, that's your territory.   Unless you are owning up to having mental health issues, and I'm holding you to account for your views, not picking on you because I know you are weaker.

You pick on people on here all the time. You're nasty, you're patronising, and you always think you're right.

sphinx wrote:Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

What....Like a fucking talking shop?

Doesn't work!.....Alcohol has nothing to do with my problems, since they were there before, i touched a drop of the stuff.  

...Just the same for many that suffer from mental health issue, else i'll be accused of being selfish!   

Raggamuffin wrote:

Sassy wrote:Only with words, that's more of a cowards way and Victor shoots to eat rather than have someone else do it for him and close his eyes and pretend it doesn't exist.

He eats squirrels?

So you're a coward then - after all, you're posting on a forum the same way I am.

Why are you here!

Dogs has gone down, hasn't it?

  

Catman wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

He eats squirrels?

So you're a coward then - after all, you're posting on a forum the same way I am.

Why are you here!

Dogs has gone down, hasn't it?

  

No.

You're off topic.

Catman wrote:

sphinx wrote:Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

What....Like a fucking talking shop?

Doesn't work!.....Alcohol has nothing to do with my problems, since they were there before, i touched a drop of the stuff.  

...Just the same for many that suffer from mental health issue, else i'll be accused of being selfish!   

What is your mental illness called?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Catman wrote:

What....Like a fucking talking shop?

Doesn't work!.....Alcohol has nothing to do with my problems, since they were there before, i touched a drop of the stuff.  

...Just the same for many that suffer from mental health issue, else i'll be accused of being selfish!   

What is your mental illness called?

...I haven't murdered anyone, yet though!


 ::D:: 

Catman wrote:Perhaps it pisses Tory scum like you, Drinky, that i went up against the DWP  and won my case!

      

You pulled the wool over this time maybe not the next. You know full well you are living of others hard work to pay for your bone idleness. Jeremy Kyle scum. I'd gladly pay your partner to beat you up once a week since he is clearly capable of that.

Catman wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

What is your mental illness called?

...I haven't murdered anyone, yet though!


 ::D:: 

What is that mental illness called? What have you been diagnosed with?

Whatever Miller may or may not be guilty of, pales in comparison to this chappie:

An investigation is not Islamophobia: The Asian Mayor of Tower Hamlets says he welcomes scrutiny, yet he tried to stop a BBC 'Panorama' report

Because "Islamophobe" is shorthand for "Bad Person", it can sometimes silence legitimate debate – which is what the mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets seems to have tried to do to the BBC.  Lutfur Rahman is Britain's first directly elected Asian mayor. On 22 May, he seeks re-election. He says he aspires to the highest standards of transparency and probity and that he welcomes scrutiny.  Two weeks ago, on Panorama, we scrutinised the way he's run this most diverse of boroughs. Instead of welcoming this, the mayor employed a major City law firm and a PR company at huge public expense to try to get the programme stopped.

The programme was manifestly neither Islamophobic nor racist. We made no mention of the mayor's links to Islamist fundamentalists. Instead, we focused squarely on governance, challenging the very principles that the mayor says underpin his approach to public office: transparency, accountability and probity.

We noted, for example, how he has given about £50,000 in grants to the Bengali media and a further £50,000 a year for "community media advice" to the chief correspondent of the most popular Bengali TV channel. That same channel has three times breached Ofcom impartiality rules by its blatantly biased coverage of the mayor. He counters that the relationship the two have is "professional".  Had the Prime Minister been paying the BBC's political editor £50,000 a year from public funds, the scandal would – rightly – have resonated around the world.

...... The upshot of this 70 per cent cash "churn" was that the mayor increased funding to Bengali and Somali organisations by 139.5 per cent from £1.5m to £3.6m. He cut what was left for other organisations by 25 per cent overall.......

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/an-investigation-is-not-islamophobia-the-asian-mayor-of-tower-hamlets-says-he-welcomes-scrutiny-yet-he-tried-to-stop-a-bbc-panorama-report-9256552.html

 

THE ONLY "kulcha" that most Tories will experience tonight...

WILL be that mould growing in the bottom of their fridges !

 

Raggamuffin wrote:

Catman wrote:



...I haven't murdered anyone, yet though!


 ::D:: 

What is that mental illness called? What have you been diagnosed with?

  

Catman wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

What is that mental illness called? What have you been diagnosed with?

  

So you just copy a character from a film then. They'll find you out sooner or later ....

Raggamuffin wrote:

Catman wrote:



  

So you just copy a character from a film then. They'll find you out sooner or later ....

I'm worried that i might be her tbf  

Just another scrounger then.

Raggamuffin wrote:Just another scrounger then.

For Stooo, take note of VAT bit!  

sphinx wrote:Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

Well said, all the time I have 'known' you, you have always talked of getting well enough to work or been trying to think of ways to work round your illness. I have been critical of you in the past but you, unlike some, have never come across as thinking the world owes you a living.

Nems wrote:

sphinx wrote:Perhaps some of us dont give up trying.

Well said, all the time I have 'known' you, you have always talked of getting well enough to work or been trying to think of ways to work round your illness. I have been critical of you in the past but you, unlike some, have never come across as thinking the world owes you a living.

Thank you Nems.