Taxpayers Fund Festival That Won’t Let White People Run It
A music festival that bars white people from running it has received thousands of pounds of taxpayer money. The Telegraph has the story.
The annual “Decolonise Fest” music event for “punx of colour” aims to undo the harms of colonialism and “dismantle white supremacy” in the punk music scene.
Grant funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has propped up Decolonise Fest, which informs prospective supporters that “white people cannot join the organising group” that leads it.
Leaders are instead drawn from members who can boast one or two parents descended from the “original inhabitants” of continents outside Europe, or from Roma and Traveller groups.
Arts Council cash has supported the London festival, whose “militant” leadership has pledged to “put the threat back into punk” – while also banning any rhetoric that could stray into “fatphobia”. …
Funding distributed by the Arts Council included £7,793 in Covid emergency funding to keep the Decolonise Fest going through the pandemic, and a grant of £18,808 in National Lottery funding this year.
Bipasha Ahmed, the festival’s organiser, was given a grant of up to £3,500 in 2024 for the purposes of “growing Decolonise Fest through training, mentorship and partnerships”.
This grant was distributed by the PRS Foundation, the UK’s main charitable funder of musical talent development, and supported by funding from the DCMS.
Public funding has supported the work of the festival team, whose manifesto states: “We are reasserting our place in punk and want to showcase the amazing, creative and talented contributions punx [sic] of colour have made to the punk scene since its inception.
“We are uncompromising and strong and will dismantle the white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, ableism and Islamophobia that infests the punk scene.”
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Systemic reform, a reforming government is required.
And people still think it will be difficult to cut taxes.
I said yesterday on another article with fraud happening in the USA, Australia and other Western democracies, can we be sure that similar levels of corruption by immigrants is not happening in this country, which would allow central government and local authorities to save money. The embarrassing thing for this country is the fraud is happening in public sight, it’s not even being hidden by the perpetrators or the victim. We are in a truly sad state of affairs
They are however happy to take white people’s money
Always.
All of this will stop, if everyone could organise a tax strike, it would take very large numbers acting together. Would bring the Government (any government) to its knees in weeks if not days.
Obviously, easier said than done!
They’re happy to do whatever helps them to gain government grants. That’s the real problem here.
How do would-be organisers prove their ancestry? Is there a market for fake Pakistani birth ertificates?
Imagine if it was a Whites only festival
What’s not to like!
We are uncompromising and strong and will dismantle the white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, ableism and Islamophobia that infests the punk scene.
You are a stupid little whiner who gets paid by the government for “voluntarily” doing its bidding.
Isn’t that racism?
Racism is defined as an attitude towards black people white people invariably have which is based on the pretention that races exist. As the anti-racists don’t believe that, they cannot be racist.
[No, this doesn’t make any rational sense, just a lot of political sense for the people who
propagate it.]
I’ve met many of the types who’d attend such an event – they tend to be deeply insecure with profound self-esteem issues.
I think they should reject the implied superiority inherent in the funding from white taxpayers.