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Council Tax is shooting up and reserves shot but we still have money for a Head of Culture and 'Place'!
Reading the LINK it's clear that once again the Council is sticking its nose into areas better left to the various world reputed museums etc that populate the Borough and who are masters at promoting themselves to a global audience
Our Council is run by officers with no business experience and councillors led by the nose by officers with idiotic ideas.
This newly created post is an insult to RBKC taxpayers struggling to pay their Council Tax.
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To the left is Verena Crawford who will run this £250k a year nonsense! She tells the Dame she's 'well respected' so that's OK then!
This makes me very angry...more waste dimwits try to pretend they are cultured!
ReplyDeletethe keyword here is PRETEND" and that's what all these culturally deficient idiots claim
DeleteVerena Crawford looks rather vacant. And certainly vapid. Just the sort who frequents dizzy lizzie lunches in Sloane Square
DeleteI am an old age pensioner and I really struggle to pay my council tax.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read of a Conservative council frittering my money away on this sort of out of time rubbish I just give up.
Ah, dear OAP,that's exactly what these nincompoops want: shut up, put up and F*ck off. Another irritating resident silenced... Don't give up :-)
DeleteOAP is right to protest. OAP should be full of outrage. Reading through the trash from Hornton Street we see that large amounts of tax payers money will be spent to "deliver four new culture quarters starting with Kensington High Street" and "spaces for creatives in Earls Court" and "one large scale Borough cultural activity".
DeleteWhat humbug. What insolence from a totally disconnected and menacing Tory administration. A disgrace to Conservatives.
First we had the flying saucer project in Nottinghill Gate and then the ridiculous Nour Festival. And now this
The pox on Cllr Campbell and her silly Cabinet
What a popping eyeful. Dizzy could not have taken a bigger dump, even if she tried. Residents should remember that long ago her husband was obliged to confiscate her credit cards and cheque book in order to preserve the family finances
DeleteThis is the Council posing as 'cultured'....hilarious. Leave the big arts institutions to develop their own strategies to promote themselves. They don't need a Irish lightweight whose main claim to fame is organising a 'St Paddy's Day' festival sticking her nose in.
ReplyDeleteprecisely, repeat what I have already said. She should perhaps arrange few free culture afternoons, with chats by someone from these nice institutions...for FREE.. Just wonder whether this twit has the charisma to arrange this?
DeleteThere is something poetic about dizzy and the Town Hall announcing the £100k Head of Culture and Space (funded by hard pressed tax payers) at the same time as the announcement of a world pandemic. Only the Tory run Kensington and Chelsea could manage such a gigantic foot in mouth event
ReplyDeleteI thought the lesson was learnt many years ago that Governments have no business dabbling in the risk business. And there is nothing more risky than the arts, which depend on creativity and entrepreneurship for success. And there is a high incidence of financial failure.
ReplyDeleteTaxes were never intended for these things
Retired Chief Executive is correct. The skill set for taking investment decisions in the arts and culture does not exist in the Kensington Town Hall. Nor should it
DeleteThis was the idea of Major General Gerald Hargreaves(Rtd) of the Royal Army Education Corps. His friend, Duncan, is heavily involved in 'The Arts' and thought this a spiffing idea!
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Council analysis, 55k people enter the Borough every day to "engage in culture". In addition "1.5 million people attend the Notting Hill Carnival".
ReplyDeleteThis is evidence of a thriving private sector cultural capability in Kensington and Chelsea. Entrepreneurial skills working in harmony with a paying audience. What on earth does the Council think it is doing by taking from the Council Tax piggy bank and using totally unqualified people to dabble and babble about culture?
Dizzie lizzie and her Cabinet have taken collective leave of their senses.
This "Culture and Place" initiative by Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, that is intent on delivering "new culture quarters" is a sinister development. The ruse is almost certainly a mechanism to resume public funding of the struggling Holland Park Opera.
ReplyDeleteThere is a core of Councillors, allied with opera Director Michael Volpe (the ex Travel Agent) and the well healed residents of Holland Park who are determined to preserve the opera with hard earned Council Tax. It is a travesty that should be stopped.
Its the Masons at work pursuing mutual interest
DeleteThe Council has been financing the opera by stealth and dishonesty. £1 million for a new foundation which was passed off in the Planning Committee as a sitting out area for residents. Also a gratis 2000 sq foot office in Council premises and no rent or rates for the opera site. This is a "bung" worth £550k every year.
ReplyDeleteHornton Street cannot get the opera out of its system
The opera also continues to encroach in other ways on park life. Recently the whole lawn area in front of the opera site was dug up and replaced by flower beds. This area was used for many years as a picnic lawn by residents and park visitors. I protested vigorously to my local Councillor, the Leader of the Borough and the Town Hall. Many of my emails were ignored. I finally received a three page email from the Director of Parks telling me that the gardeners had dug up the lawn and they were paid by the opera company. The Council gave the opera company the money to pay the gardeners.
DeleteThis dreadful muddle needs to be stopped.
Off with their heads
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