@Yogi 344040 wrote:
I may be wrong but isnt that using handouts to gain support instead of proper policy?? now used to criticise politicians and supporters for given up there duty?
yes, a mixture of handouts and entertainment – but this is what seems to have actually happened here.
all the hedonistic dance music based festivals are still allowed to continue (the circuses), OK its not quite handouts and that they are paid for by the state – in some ways the opposite with the Council recovering the money with people paying fuckloads of money for tickets (half of which goes to the feds) and having to run the gauntlet of sniffer dogs etc and some actually having to shove their drugs up their arses like they were going to prison!!
but BGG which clearly has a age nda to make a difference as well as music/partying etc gets canned, whilst lots of other festivals which are probably noisier and with slightly more risk of “adverse incidents” are permitted to go ahead..
but because there is a glut of festivals in Western / SW England, Wales and the Midlands it seems people just roll over and accept it as if nothings happened as its “only the yoghurt weavers what lost their event”
I live in the East now rather than SE England, our party scene went from one of the most vibrant (both legal and free) to zero tolerance and it seem very few really seems to give a fuck because they can either afford to drive hundreds of miles to another area or they have just “grown out of partying”, but it also means that less people are getting involved in wider social issues here…
what there should be is more “small green gatherings” and maybe integrated once more with electronic dance music culture as opposed to “hippies” and “urban ravers” getting split apart which is what is happening to an extent these days.
