A Government fund established last year to support the arts and heritage sectors through lockdowns has only paid out little more than half of the money it has allocated, leaving venues across the country cash-strapped. The Guardian has the story.
The National Audit Office said the culture recovery fund had budgeted for £830 million in grants and loans funding so far, but only £495 million had been paid out.
MPs have responded angrily to the findings, urging the Government to hand over the cash while “there are still organisations left to support”.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced the £1.57 billion fund to help the cultural, arts and heritage institutions survive the pandemic last summer.
It has supported about 3,000 arts organisations in England so far, including venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and Southbank Centre in London, and M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
The fund was increased by £300 million in the budget earlier this month, with the Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, saying: “It’s such a relief we can look ahead now so this funding is not just about survival but for planning and preparing for the reopening of theatres, galleries and gigs.”
But auditors have examined the allocation of the funds so far and found that of the £1 billion that has been made available, about £830 million in grants and loans has been awarded to different organisations but only £495 million of that has been paid out, auditors said.
The department has assumed, in the worst-case scenario, that social distancing would remain until the end of March this year, auditors pointed out, and that demand for theatre tickets and venue capacity would remain at 40% of pre-Covid levels.
But the current situation exceeds this worst-case scenario.
Last month, plans for a new 2,000-seat concert hall in London were scrapped due to the impact of lockdowns. Venues across the country have suffered greatly over the last year from the shutting down of the arts. Of course, the best approach from here would be to scrap the “rescue” fund altogether and just let the sector re-open.
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I’m going to stick my neck out and bet that they will get approved for this age group but that the government won’t advise tots this young get them, in the same way several other countries are doing. Mind you, I could be being a bit overly optimistic here given the limited options you guys have for your next PM..
Cradle to grave marketing and shortening the time in between.
Oh, that’s class.
Cradle to Grave drug pushing and addiction. MHRA et al are in the drugs-profits business. Not health.
Why would anyone think that this was something worth considering? I have just done a word search and the words, futile gesture, ineffective, pointless, meaningless and ineffectual come up when thinking whether there is any benefit to human health in doing this. But of course it is worse than this because these potions are causing harms. It is also the case that, despite the fact that alternative and maybe safer vaccines like Valneva are approved; the only game in town is the mRNA potion.
And so we must ask what is driving this? as far as I can see it is a sinister and monstrous move to hook the whole human race up to a lifetime of dependency on mRNA potions. The prize for big pharma is enormous, the totalitarian control of the population has our fascist politicians drooling with joy.
Where will we find a politician or a leader to save us from descending down these circles of hell?
One just has to wonder what type of parent allows their tiny baby to be used as a guinea pig.
Because science – sorry THE science
‘The $cience.’
There can be only one science Frodo. One science to rule them all….
The late, incomparable US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a devout traditionalist Catholic, said he believed the Devil was a real being, an actual individual. Perhaps he’d actually met him working at Moderna.
What is the matter with this guy?In the whole of 2020-2021, Only 1 child died (aged 1-15) of covid-19 alone. Out of over 7 million population. No children died between the age of 1-10.
Even MHRA have reported 8 child deaths from the toxic jab. And we know that is likely to be a factor of at least 10 too low.
Here is last week’s VAERS data for child deaths in the USA. 162 jab deaths – 2 deaths under 6 months old!
I note that VAERS has not updated this week. The date has changed but the results are the same as last week. Also, the OWID jabs data for the USA stopped on 11th October.
Unreal
Safe and Effective. SIDS – bad breast milk we are told. Or too much porridge syndrome….
The Yanks are on the way to approving it for infants 15-0 the vote apparently + pushing to get it as a school requirement, This will all absolve the Jabbers of any litigation forever !!!
They had the second vote yesterday and approved that it be added to the schedule. No one dissented. The regulations should not allow an emergency use medicine to be put on a routine injection schedule. It has not happened before and should not have happened this time either.
There must be a lot of money changing hands.
These were authorised for use on the basis that there was a life threatening emergency. There is no emergency, the jabs do not stop transmission and children are not at risk. There is zero justification for these still to be available to anyone far less to children who will have a far higher risk of serious adverse effects. No genotoxity studies or carcenogenicity studies have been done, the spike protein has been shown to remain in the body for periods of at least 12 months.
Why would anyone expose children to this risk unless for malevolent intent?
It raises the question of what should be done when they admit that there is no longer an “Emergency” to authorise it’s use. How can they complete a conventional process for new drugs now? After all, it’s early days, but there is a lot of evidence (probably incomplete) that could be used in a proper assessment. So much so that they want to brush it under the carpet.
“U.K. Regulator Mulls.”
There is a sickness right there.
“the mRNA jab, which works in a similar way to Pfizer’s, would only be approved if it met strict safety and efficacy standards”.
That’s right, just like the jabs for adult and older children.
I am yet to hear a public health official anywhere in the world describe any of the jabs as anything other than “safe and effective”.
“Why are regulators even considering approving these vaccines for small children?”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Its all about the liability, innit? Doesn’t matter how toxic and dangerous it is, once on the US child jab schedule there’s no pharma liability for anyone forever. The UK govt gave upfront liability indemnity in 2020 for the EUA, and with more adults are getting a bit twitchy about it these days, kids are a logical target regardless of need or the risks. If parental concerns can be sufficiently ‘nudged’ to get it into as many kiddie arms as possible then damn the consequences, lives don’t matter when there’s profit to be made. Pfizer, Moderna, J&J & BioNTech share prices all rose markedly after the VCIP decision. Cristian Terhes and colleagues of the Special EU Committee had some choice words to say about it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTgDj7uiX8
That is….unless fraud is proven. And it will be sooner or later
Is this just about profits, though? If so, then the adverse effects must just be down to faulty design, rather than being an intended consequence.
I find it hard to get my mind round, but I suspect the motivation / objective is a combination of profit (including payments to enablers), intent to damage health and establishment of a regular vaccine schedule which can later be used to inject dubious ingredients (including electronic chips?) into human bodies.
“Why are regulators even considering approving these vaccines for small children?”
Why? Money
Big Pharma’s indemnity against harm caused by their experimental vaccines will continue indefinitely if they can get it approved for use on children.
85% of MHRA’s funding comes from Big Pharma and the Gates Foundation.
This is the disgusting corruption that has already killed hundreds of children in the western world already.
Why are our gov’ts and health authorities so eager to kill our children with unsafe and ineffective covid vaccines? Let’s all insist every relative of every politician get in line first to receive these poisons. You will see an immediate halt to this injection madness. Just say NO
Vaccinating infants provides great protection. For the Pharma companies, against law suits for vaccine injuries.
What parent would allow their child to be in a trial like this?