Wheres art-savvy Santa?
We are meant to believe there is some art-savvy Santa Claus sprinkling millions down onto the great unwashed, in a game of funding pass-the-parcel worthy of Alice. Only this is not Wonderland, this is Thanet. You won’t find anything for Turner in the Thanet council budget, squeaks a Tory member who appears to have had a Damascene conversion since the days when he, too, thought the whole thing was a nonsense. I don’t care if the cheque’s signed off by the county council, Arts Council, or someone in Brussels. Whichever way you cut the cake, you are paying for it, I am paying for it, and we are both mighty angry. And let’s hear no more the facile argument that if Margate didn’t get the Turner Centre it would be built elsewhere. It’s the logic used to justify buying a dodgy telly from a man in the pub because if you didn’t someone else would. Some of you have urged me to reveal the name of the very senior council officer who referred to the nay-sayers as “a*******s”.
