Jeremy Hunt, the Culture, Media and Sport minister has decided that the Film Council is too expensive as has to go. Only, actually, the Film Council makes money, roughly 400% on investments. By cutting it, he is losing money.
Hunt should have lost his job earlier in the year after showing catastrophic ignorance suggesting that football hooliganism played a part in the Hilsborough disaster, which it absolutely didn't. Had the news agenda at the time not been such a fraught place, he might have found the ire of the media more savage and calls for his head might have been more vociferous.
He later claimed that he knew Hilsborough had nothing to do with hooligans and misspoke. Which seems frankly like the back-tracking of an ignorant Tory whose nearest brush with football hooliganism is walking past a copy of ID on the bargain rail in HMV. Or wherever the Tories buy their DVDs, no doubt their expense receipts will will tell us.
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Clearly Hunt doesn't like to stray far from his whole "I'm an ignorant moron" shtick, today announcing that the Film Council would be dissolved because and money would go directly to film makers. But who, prey tell, is going to distribute that money, you can't do it personally can you Mr Hunt, can you? Far too busy for that. Too busy maintaining that dreadful 12-year-old's gelled quiff. What we need is some sort of agency, or council to access filmmaker's bids for money... Wait a minute.
The thing is. This isn't even about film-making or the Film Council, well it is, but more broadly it's about a Tory war on everything Labour achieved during its time in power. They are dismantling all the good things Labour did in the name of "cuts", but it's got nothing to do with cuts. It's a form or retroactive historical re-writing. There is always a bit of upheaval when a new government takes over, but to so catastrophically lay waste to everything that existed before is vindictive and it's immoral.
