on cutting funding

UK government is proposing 25% cuts to art funding. All the big shots are publicly signing

the petition against it, and making art in response. Some of the art is better than others,

but since I am still doing rain dances to the record shop gods in hoping I have a ticket to David Shrigley's book launch in two days, how's this for the spirit:

also, proof of the prominence of the arts (ahem, sorry, the Creative Sector) here in the UK

that there is an arts council organizing a counter-campaign.

(Am I wrong in feeling that at home there is a lot of complain-and-shrug going on? Certainly no comparable organization on a national level. Our small-scale cities and our isolation are our biggest prize/curse.)