It’s going to be party time in 2022, apparently. The government, I hear, is lining up Martin Green, who ran the very successful Hull City of Culture during 2017, to take charge of a four nations arts extravaganza with a budget of £120m. Our beloved leader, who likes to emphasise that he is not just PM but also minister for the union, wants a festival of the UK.
Of course not
For flips sake! We don't need bread & circuses, we need leadership & investment!
It’s a cheap thrill it is not the Festival of Britain and again in London; it is wrong at every level
Nope
Demonstrates the Brexit Party, sorry Tory Party's priorities, bread & circuses, Nero Boris fiddling while UK burns and 1 child homeless every 5 minutes, 5k rough sleeping, disproportionally many ex services, 726 died homeless in 2018, much to celebrate then!!!
No.
Depends, is this another racist Trojan horse. How is culture defined in this context? A celebration of the empire
No.
No. Next question
Whose culture?
'Bitch, please'
I can think of a few other things that £120m could be spent on.
What an absolutely daft question. The timescales are chalk and cheese. A one-off puff vs decades of decline and disgrace.
I'm out. I'm allergic to Union Flag bunting.
Nope. Just to put it into context you.couod, instead, give £300,000 to every pupil referral unit in the UK.
A big, fat, resounding nope.
No
No.
There’s more chance of me getting pregnant.
And what do you think that would look like Bunch of people in bowler hats walking around offering each other tea
Nope. PS. Save the £120m for the NHS pls
lol No 120m is fuck all at country sized economies Its about 1 weeks real EU membership cost
I'd say £120m 'culture fest' would really piss off all children living in poverty, the 1 in 200 Brits homeless, disabled people who had allowances cut and mobility scooters taken, the WASPI women whose pensions were stolen, the sick told they were fit for work ... need I go on?
A celebration of British national vanity, self-indulgence and sense of exceptionalism? Maybe the only occasion less urgent than International Mens Day.
Will anyone be allowed visas to visit it? Or is it a local festival for local people?
A plaster over terminal cancer. This is not 2012 any more. The UK spirit that produced the Olympics was killed by Brexit and Johnson is stamping on the corpse. Now we will live in splendid isolation on sunny uplands, where no one will come calling. Festival be damned.
No, it's not exactly going to bring in the tourists, it's another kick in the teeth
Get your white pointy hats here! Nazi flags three for a tenner..
Olympics 2012 - £8.77 bn Arts in 2022 - £120 m In a population of 60m, £120m is £2 each, if I'm not mistaken. 'Culture' valued at less than the price of a cup of coffee. Yeah, of course the artists will work for nothing to bring the nation together again. 🙄 BrexitBritain
A BIG NO FROM US. 😡😖☹️😟😕🤯🥵😱😤🥺🙁😗😙😭🤢
Is this a joke?
Is this that stupid Festival of Brexit? Given that most UK museums are apolitical and thus refusing to participate, it will be lacking a lot of culture...
No it can't. Put that funding back into schools for cultural subjects and put culture back on the curriculum as part of the baccalaureate. Dont save cultural activity for private schools!
No.
No. B/c I will ALWAYS be here, fighting against the dictatorship that is UK govt. They LIE, they're corrupt, they committed electoral fraud using Dark Money donated by CRIMINALS. Those pushing it are AIDING & ABETTING those criminals. Tory party deserves to be clapped in jail.
What a foolish question from a paper which has betrayed it's commitment to social justice, honesty and the environment by helping to usher in this despicable Conservative government.
...no?
Chump change for chumps...
No.....next
A festival of myopia and ignorance
Eh,No.
No
England has gone stark raving bonkers. Thank fuck it’s Christmas,
I’m selling tickets, inbox me!
No
Narrator: It did not.
Ooooh, goody... let's waste even MORE money on Brexit!!!
Paging BetteridgesLaw
No
No!
Hahahhahahahahaaa. No.
No
What would Raymond Williams say? 🧐
Culture isn't the result of spending money.
No.
No.
Nope. Next question.
No, staying in the EU would be better and cheaper, thanks.
No.
Nope it will be another waste of money that will be desperately needed elsewhere to counter the effects of Brexit
When Big Business , Banking start moving to Europe , what then on the JOBS Front
No
No.
Lol
Short of a referendum there's literally nothing this government could do heal the country. It's just going make things worse and the country more divided.
Then what?
No.
No. But screw it, if the piss-stains in Govt are splashing the cash I’ll take some and donate it to libraries, the homeless etc etc. Event Consultant and Manager for hire!
If there are a lot of drugs at it, and I mean, a lot, then still no..
In a word 'No'
Nope, £120M isn't going to get you much and at least 48% of the country will look favourably upon it.
What culture would that be? 22 pints on a Friday night, followed by a chippy, a piss up against a bus shelter, and finally puking and getting thrown out of a taxi? Not sure a festival of that is a good idea.
No. The UK is dead.
Nope
I think an artist's boycott of the official event and a grassroots organisation of Stuff the Brexit cultural events/carnivals/parties is called for.
No
Define culture! Acording to some brits there is no culture outside this island. The only legit one is their own. So the answer to your question is No. Nothing can save little England from the ignorance they embracing.
no
Brexiteers don't do culture. Will the festival consist in the burning of books?
Nope.
The London Borough of Culture events in Brent are gonna be better LBOC2020
What culture? Racism, rejection of dental wisdom, fish and chips and binge drinking? No thanks
No
Nope.
No...can we just save the cash for when we need it for medicine and books.
😂😂😂😂
Only if it's as good as the millennium dome
Ffs
The union is dead .... and soon to be buried ....
No.
No.
The Festival of Brexit Culture.
No, that sounds like a really dumb solution to all of the UK’s problems.
No
YES!! SPEND MORE!! SPEND £2BILLION AT LEAST!!MAKE IT WORTH IT!!
No
No.
no
No, next question..
Heading for civil war in 2020, every part of society has been set against each other just to win the Conservatives an election... Enjoy it all spectacularly falling apart in 2020.
Someone tell them it's not 1851.....oh wait...
No ... unless we turn it into a protest concert ...
No.
Is jesus running it ?
Er no.
No
Like It’s a Royal Knockout did for the monarchy?
Remember the hamper.
Ooh, I know this one!
Only if there’s a Greggs
Johnson wasted millions as Mayor of London whilst shutting down half our fire and police stations. A leopard doesn't change his spots. Expect loads more of these daft vanity projects while the country goes to rack and ruin.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm washing my hair that day.
lol. No.
Ridiculous
More tub thumping flag waving English exceptionalism? Let me think....... ...nah.
Who’s culture?
What’s this suppose to mean?
Grand Marshall Boris Johnson will lead a parade of torch bearing hoodlums who will stone anyone darker than a bedsheet.
Better giving the funding to reopen the 300 libraries that have closed since 2010. They actually don't care about culture.
No
No. It's just a waste of money on a propaganda / vanity project.
No.
Think its Ridiculous specially as I don't even Feel joy anymore never mind would trust any1 as its obvious fat taxin government live their dreams by literally taking peoples whole lives making it Hell for what . for themselves makes me sick to be alive never mind a Dam festival
Take that money and pay nurses. Help the poor and elderly.
No.
Nope
April fools day comes early.
Camz99 Like the London Olympics in 2012 marked a culture change in England's thinking and led to them only celebrating people from all around the world, not vilifying them and voting for an anti-immigration/racist Brexit?
... it's a bit like Brazil - don't invest in improving education for communities in the favelas, provide street carnivals to distract.
no.
Nope
Culture Sponsored by Greggs and bland food.
Would totally boycott this!! indyref2020
No.
Probably be about as much use as the £100m ad campaign
foodbanks
No.
Not in the slightest, although I would suggest some culture in form of live yoghurt to help after a meal of chlorinated chicken.
Scotland says Why don't you just all watch back to back episodes of Midsomer murders?
How did a formerly left of centre, socially liberal newspaper end up so lost?
No but a fascist dictator would soon tear down alarmist journalists & Newspapers peddling fake news
No
This is such a twisted idea, not helped by a ridiculous question, with an offensive sum based on a hollow promise. And the ‘culture’ part? The makers of culture will be those most impacted. The whole thing is ghoulish.
We don’t need saving.
Celebrating our potential downfall, great! Wasting more money, great! More government ideas that grate!
The UK won’t need ‘saved’.
No
Nope.
Save the UK post-Brexit from what?
Anyway - at the moment British ‘culture’ when 👀 from outside these shores looks like this: • stupid people voting to damage their own country • dishonourable political leaders lying constantly • extreme right wing anti-immigrant government • left wing Marxist opposition
Yeah the only thing that will save the union now is a giant £120 million celebration of English Nationalism & Brexit in London. Get tae fuck...
Erm no 👎
Mayb.. No, Absolutely not.
No. End of.
What is your newspaper actually for? Seriously?
Delete your account
No.
No.
No, stop wasting money, put the money towards better more needy causes like child poverty, homelessness, schools, NHS...the list at the moment seems endless!
No. Offering associate EU membership, staying part of the SM and CU, giving EU in UK automatic right to stay, negotiating right to stay for UK in EU, investing in NHS, investing in schools and mental health. Those might work.
No.
Funny how there's always money for this kind of thing & not for anything actually useful.
No....why on earth would it?
You mean like with flags draped from all the buildings, grand military marches, huge speeches to thousands stood in neat rows, joyful youth waving flags, soaring tunes/hymns, display of approved art, free tea kind of festival of culture? I get it...seen it before.
No
Of course not
No, because Brexit won't be finished. This shit-show is going to drag on for years.
NO
No.
Betteridge's law.
No
No
I hear lot of Russian billionaires with absolutely NO connection to Putin are clamouring for stands and a certain American IT lady is getting centerstage for free as she may know Boris (allegedly)
It's won't need saving 🙄.... Not like the countries that have been thrown into civil war as a result of our involvement. Libya 🇱🇾 Syria 🇸🇾 Iraq 🇮🇶
No.
A magnet for nationalists. This has the potential to turn into something awful. Maybe we can organise something better for the other half of the country.
No.
QTWTAIN
Feels like we need a snap olympics
No, but I expect SERCO and chums will make a fortune off the back of it.
No.
Will any non British (sorry English) culture be allowed?
About as much as the Olympic Legacy! Olympics Legacy Lies NHS
No No No !
Can you imagine the sort of soul free twats that would want to be involved in this? Mike Reed headlining with David van Day on bongo? Gemma Collins doing a book 'reading'? Katie Hopkins amyone? Tim Martin's fetid stale ale? And Laura Riefensberg can film it all for the BBC.
What are you Communists talking about? Brexit will make the UK thrive and get out of an oppressive regime.
The UK doesn’t need SAVING post-brexit! You bloody doomsayers should emigrate to the EU - you’ll soon find out what true austerity is like.
No, and 50ps won't either.
I’m not interested in anything the Tory Brexit party puts on.......
No
FFS. is this a serious article?
I’m gonna go with no
“save the UK”? 🤣🤣🤣
This is some sort of sick joke, right?
Lol bet no remainers go and all the leavers and gov representatives say how wonderful it was! Ffs
Is this a joke ?
Extremely doubtful.
No. Nothing can save us from our bad decisions. I guess it might make 30% feel tingly and triumphalist for a while, until reality bites, and that's the main thing these days.
NO!
Yes that will cure the poverty and social deprivation won't it
Ooh I know this one! The answer is a resounding and demoralising and tiring and annoyed... No.
No
House the homeless with that money and eradicate poverty for good.
Bucks Fizz...
What culture?
Ooh this sounds like a credible... yeh, no
Millennium Night 2.0. Hopefully minus the blokes dressed as butterflies but hopefully + the Auld Lang Syne moment.
Don't be silly.
No. No one can save little England’s Brexit
How many homeless people would you be able to get off streets this winter and how many families below poverty line would you be able to feed with £120mil? Get your priorities straight Britain. Merry Christmas.
It’s a bit like hoping a single Elastoplast can staunch the flow of blood from a leg that’s been torn off by a bear. Only that elastoplast is the guy from Dollar.
No . It’s dead .
This is what it will look like
British KKKulture is not welcome in the North of Ireland we already put up with 11 months of marching season. Any celebration of British Kulture will simply end up a celebration of anti-catholic sentiment here in the North of Ireland.
Think we all know the answer to that. How's that garden bridge going?
Wrong idea; what we need a is total revamp of our Soft Power strategy starting with the merger of BBC World Service and British Council
LOL, Britain only 'needed saving' from the JACOBIN EU
Melodrama
No
I imagine it's going to be a festival of nativist culture that celebrates 'getting rid of them foreigners' Where is my sick bag?
No. Next.
Why does the UK need saving? (Apart from, from Guardian hacks)
No.
🤪🤯😨🤡😱🤢
Simple answer..... NO
Brexit has already saved the UK, neither do we need some out of touch lefty redefining British culture.
No
😂😂😂😂😂 Why ask these stupid questions? Of course not. Also, we are a multi-cultural society. That’s reality, has been for decades. The leavers are going to have to accept that when it comes to redefining UK post brexit.
No
Save the UK from what exactly?
Which culture are we talking about...The one that used to be there pre 2016 referendum or the one now where the majority has chosen to move themselves away from the EU !
No.
More wasted money.
No
Nope. Will it be as fabulous as the Garden Bridge?
Let me think... Nope.
Will a new lava lamp restore my front lounge after the drunk-driven muck-spreader vehicle that crashed straight through it?
No amount of festivals will save UK post brexit, and a “festival of culture” is an excuse for a freakshow of xenophobia and exceptionalism. Healing doesn’t start with celebrating the thing that broke us.
'save the UK' - you are the ones tearing it down
No
No.
How much did the Nuremberg rally’s cost?
The phrase ‘drop in the ocean’ comes to mind. Do some journalism!
NO BRIXT IS IN THE HANDS OF EU NEGOTIATES.
Lol.
Lol the conquering emperor wants to have a modern day games
You would think so, wouldn't you?
Dream on!
No
🙄 No.
Can it feck.
Noel Edmonds and Michael McIntrye on a loop?
No.
No
No.
No it cant. I thought the whole idea of a festival of brexit Britain had been killed off but here we are. The ridiculous 50p has been resurrected as well.
Window dressing?
Oh please. Looking at what's going on this morning on Twitter suggests that it's going to take a bit more than that. istandwithstormzy
No, but it may help the NHS....
Is it not a rule of journalism that if a headline asks a question, the answer to that question is ‘No’?
No
~ er, ... to reinvent the wheel, after wilfully discarding it? 😳
No.
No.
No
Brexiters & Culture = Oxymoron (or just moron?) So NO.
Of course it can getbrexitdum impeachboris
Maybe if they'd make it £350 million... Only a days savings...
I’m going to go with no
Festival of Brexit is actual coming!Coldwar_Steve 😀
We don't need saving
gimmicks and charlatan tricks can not paper over the decay from Tory misrule.
no but i will happily go and protest outside it for free if others fancy joining?!
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
No
Look at the government impact assessments. The loss in gdp. Then balance that against 120m. It’s nothing.
No let’s spend that money on the homeless instead. That’s a better way of celebrating.
Nope.
Possibly? Will Cornwall be included this time or forgotten as usual?
Circuses really only work in a situation where there is a sufficiency of bread in the system. In this case substitute ‘cash’ for bread and it becomes clear that many plebs are disaffected to the point of secession.
now the breakaway adolescent, the United Kingdom of Farragia, spends all its rental money on a drunken celebration of leaving the normatively oppressive but productive family, for self reliance as a begger tearaway...saluting to the neighbourhood crook across the road
No. Give the money to all the medium-small museums around the country who are struggling with so little funding.
No
No, next question.
No, but it will help the friends of the Conservatives who will undoubtedly win the bids to put the thing on using minimum wage labour and leaving behind huge clean up costs which the tax payer will pay. It’s another secret Santa to their backers
Will a big house party make me feel better about my parents' divorce?
With it being centred in Birmingham? Guess?
Hell, I won’t be attending ANYTHING associated with brexit !
No. An attempt by the Wigs to try anything like this will be such hypocrisy.
Nope, there is not way that's going to work out
No
No
QTWTAIN JohnRentoul
I doubt that anything will
What culture?
No, it can't. Because many foreign artists would not be able to get Visas.
Festival of Gammon.
No
No
No
No, get our veterans off the streets
you mean woman or man
“Culture” ?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
No.
I'm going to say no?
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