If Rachel Reeves Wants to Fill the £22 Billion “Black Hole” She Should Start by Abolishing the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Whenever I ask someone, “Have you heard of the Arts and Humanities Research Council?” (AHRC), the answer is mostly “No” (the same for many taxpayer-funded things, incidentally).
But it is by far one of the most wasteful taxpayer-funded organisations, awarding approximately £110 million of funding each year to projects such as The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 (£841,830) and Cuteness in Contemporary Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice (£120,766), among other treasures.
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Put the names of all the quangos and ngo’s on a board, then rip off all the unessassary ones, just like Javier Milei did,
By the time he’d finished there were none on the board and millions were saved in an instant!
Funny how Boris said this after he was pm!
Milei did better than NGOs and quangos.
Milei Shuts Down Argentina’s Tax AgencyAFIP is an “unnecessary bureaucracy” that stifles economic freedom, says Milei’s government. KATARINA HALL | 10.22.2024 9:50 AM
Argentina’s new president lays off 5,000 government employees hired in 2023, before he took office
December 26, 2023
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentina’s new President Javier Milei said on Tuesday that his government won’t renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before he took office.
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei does away with culture ministry 24 hours after taking office
The new far-right president halved the number of government ministries (and devalued the peso by 50%) in a show of “control” over the nation and its economic troubles
Promise Kept: Javier Milei Cuts 9 Argentine Government Offices on First Day
December 11th, 2023
President Javier Milei fires 24,000 government workers in Argentina: ‘No one knows who will be next’
Public sector employees denounce that the cuts will put many state functions on hold
Buenos Aires – Apr 02, 2024
Milei’s government reduces ministries and secretariats by 50%
Presidential spokesman Adorni insisted that ‘there’s no money’ and that the new administration ‘will do the impossible to prevent a catastrophe’
December 12, 2023
Argentine government shuts anti-discrimination agency
Buenos Aires (AFP) – President Javier Milei’s government said Thursday it would shut down Argentina’s national anti-discrimination agency as part of its drive to slim down the state, saying the institute served “no purpose.”
22/02/2024
But will he survive in power long enough for his reforms to have proven themselves and gotten Argentina out of hyper-inflation and other problems:
Javier Milei could be in trouble The Spectator 14 October 2024
The fightback against Javier Milei’s radical reforms has begun
Argentina’s powerful trade unions are preparing to strike on January 24th
Economist Jan 14th 2024
Wonderful stuff. And to think that many public servants spend their lives ”administering” this tripe, thinking they’re doing a great job. Never mind the rest of the cultural gravy train…in Latin America? This cannot be serious, surely?
Why are we continuing to support Politicians spending our money on their pet projects, its akin to someone entering your house, stealing money from your purse, and bank account then spending it on themselves. Why, why do we keep on paying taxes we can withhold, council tax, filling out tax returns and paying on demand, London’s various car taxes etc. If there were numbers of us in the thousands who decided to protest then they would have to do something to cut the waste, and to direct our taxes at things that benefit the tax paying citizens of this country, like roads, infrastructure, migrant repatriation, business building, tax reduction. I do not see any politician/Government listening to the people of this country unless the spiggot is turned off.
I am all for the arts but this is a bit of a stretch. Especially, as I suspect those deciding and contributing to these activities have probably never done anything so vulgar as work which generates non government funding and actually added anything into the economy.
Also, a great summary of Johnson and his lack of doing anything.
I have just checked their website and there are half a million pounds a year of vacancies in the senior team alone – assuming the exec chair gets paid at least the same as his deputy – https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/work-for-us/find-and-apply-for-a-job/senior-and-public-appointments/
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY00017X%2F1
£137,000 for two days “work.” May 23 – May 25th.
Obviously the Arts and Humanities Research Council?” (AHRC), grifters like to get their holidays in and so packed in a few away days:
India
Caldona, Colombia
North East Brazil
Back to India
And then two more trips back to Latin America
Luvly jubbly.
A quick thought.
All the greatest artistic geniuses mankind have ever produced managed to create wonders, often with great effort and difficulty, without the support of anything remotely like this super-woke nest of thieves.
How much of the crap that is now churned out under this lunatic tax-milking machine will be considered of merit in one year’s time?