Fears for U.K. Music Festivals After Sponsor Barclays Caves In to Gaza Protesters
BBC DJ Liz Kershaw has slammed protesters targeting Barclays’s sponsorship of summer music festivals, warning their woke opposition will be “potentially devastating for our culture”. The Mail has the story.
Ms. Kershaw, 65, said that wrecking such financial deals would place many musical and cultural events under threat.
She spoke out after Barclays suspended sponsorship of music festivals staged by promoter Live Nation, including Download, Latitude and the Isle of Wight.
The bank, which puts in six-figure sums to help stage the events, pulled out after several acts refused to appear in protest at Barclays’s financial services for defence firms supplying Israel.
Live Nation held crisis talks with Barclays after artists such as country singer CMAT, metal band Ithaca and comedian Joanne McNally withdrew from planned slots this summer.
Ms. Kershaw posted on X: “Now our entertainment is under attack. No sponsor = no festival. Bullying of bands – no festival.
“This is really sinister and is potentially devastating for musicians, music lovers and our culture.”
Other music industry insiders said they fear for the future of festivals if they lose sponsorship fees that help cover shortfalls after ticket sales. …
Last month more than 100 artists boycotted Brighton’s Great Escape Festival over ties to Barclays. …
Barclays said: “We have agreed to suspend participation in the remaining Live Nation festivals in 2024. …
“The protesters’ agenda is to have Barclays ‘debank’ defence companies, which is a sector we remain committed to as an essential part of keeping this country and our allies safe.”
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Who is at fault here? Barclays for not standing up to bullies or the insane, antisemitic, bullies? In my view it is Barclays: they are running a business that is not politically aligned. They are encouraging violence and abuse against their customers. Is anyone going to put money on it that the next target will not be customers going into Barclays? How about staff coming out of Barclays offices across the world?
I’ll be cancelling my Barclay cards and will most certainly cite Woke and lack of protection for staff and customers as my reasons.
Can we just take a moment to let the state of these classless, mouth-breathing morons sink in though? In the U.S it’s apparently a thing ( Tik Tok trend ) for them to go around stalking and harassing famous people who have a different opinion to them ( Tarantino lives in Tel Aviv, apparently, so gets extra hate ).The woman with the manky hair, who looks like a soap-dodger, is the ring-leader. The first comment under the clip of them harassing Quinton Tarantino nails it better than me;
”Pro-Hamas supporters wield a grotesque arsenal, from relentless harassment to outright violence, mirroring depraved fiends who are steeped in moral decay and intellectual rot.
Their tactics are a chilling alignment with chaos and destruction.”
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1802294903151423684
Ultimately who loses out?
Everybody.
The Globalists hate music festivals and places where people are free to gather. Though Glastonbury is a cesspit of Marxism, and more lately Satanists.
OMG, is this for real?? Well we must appease and avoid triggering the ‘you know who’ people, right? I mean, god knows what might happen to a white, patriotic postie doing his rounds in Bradford, flying an England flag from his van? FFS! Is there anyone who hasn’t bent over for Islam?? 😮 Road safety, my arse.
Edit: I’ll bet money they’re absolutely fine with the Pride rainbow flag though;
”Royal Mail has announced a UK-wide ban until “July 14”. Royal Mail has moved to ban its 100,000 posties from flying England flags during Euro 2024 to avoid sparking streets clashes, according to reports in the Sun newspaper.
Royal Mail has banned its 100,000 posties from flying England flags during the Euros – claiming they may spark clashes on the streets, or even crashes.
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “Flags on vehicles can be a distraction to other road users and poorly positioned items can block vision.
“Poorly fitted items can fall off and be an obstruction or hazard. Flags also introduce risk of confrontation with other road users or pedestrians. For this reason we do not permit celebratory flags to be displayed on any of our vehicles.”
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/royal-mail-announces-uk-wide-29360300
When I worked in the Civil Service some years ago we had a Euro or something similar going on so I decided to fly my England flag on my car. My car. I wasn’t interested in the footy but I thought I had a good excuse to show a bit of patriotism which always wound up senior management. This sacrilegious breach of wokery was spotted by my boss and I was told to remove the flag. I was on dodgy ground because it was a staff car park so, much to my shame, I complied. I wouldn’t have done so now and looking back I wish I had dug my feet in.
Curiously up here in Scotland I see Saltires all over the place since this Euro footie started. You will never see any SNP people or any employer etc telling people not to fly that flag. Isn’t it incredible how “Independence” for Scotland from the UK is a such a great thing but “Independence” for the UK from the EU makes everyone terrible racists and bigots?
Thanks varmint. Good points.
‘A spokesperson for Barclays told the BBC: “Barclays was asked and has agreed to suspend participation in the remaining Live Nation festivals in 2024.‘
What do you expect Barclays to do, Richard? Force-fund the festivals? Threaten to debank Live Nation if they don’t agree to accept their sponsorship?
I agree, I would walk away from Live Nation and sod their festivals.
We have gone from living in Freedom to living in a western world where the screaming banshees run the show. The people that shout the loudest end up getting their own way and the rest of us are the bunch of wimps that have to either accept it or shout even louder.
How insane is it that fossil fuels that power 85% of the world are now the devil and Renewables that cannot power hardly any of the world are all sweetness and light?
“Renewables.”
How about “fiction fuels.”