An opportunity to celebrate the weather and growing your own food, presuambly because we are no longer able to move to a different climate and because we cannot import or harvest enough fresh produce.
An opportunity to put some cash back into struggling arts and creative sectors or for the friends of the politicians to snaffle up yet more of the tax payers money.
I will not and cannot celebrate the stupidity of Brexit but I said the 2012 Olympics would be a disaster and that turned out ok.
Will you be getting behind the Festival?
No
The only way I'd get behind it is to help push it off a cliff.
If I could get behind in in a "successful Guy Fawkes" sorta way then yes, otherwise no
If a celebration of British Weather is one of the headline acts then they must be really struggling
I wonder if they dare make it a national holiday. Lots of people will love the day off regardless of the label.
That way we can celebrate another great British victory like Dunkirk and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
As much fish as you can possibly eat, please eat some fish... won’t somebody eat the fish?
It, and all who sail in it can go **** themselves with a rolled up flag.
No hate the idea - complete ****ing waste of my money.
Tbh I'll put aside my bias against Brexit and the Tories and see what's actually proposed before getting worked up about it.
If there's a bit of a holiday and some fun non-jingoistic activities that the kids will enjoy then why should I hate it?
Going in a huff because of Brexit and the current government would seem like putting my ego before what's best for me, my family and society.
Do we get a day off? I'll do owt for day off and a Spitfire flypast**. Of course a day off is by far the easiest way to get all the dingbats onside with their disposable bbqs and union jack wigs.
I will not and cannot celebrate the stupidity of Brexit but I said the 2012 Olympics would be a disaster and that turned out ok.
I think this one will be more Millenium Dome than 2012 Olympics
By the time we get to it I'm sure it'll be compulsory for us all to carry at least one Union Jack on your person at all times
I'll have to wait and see how many Union Jacks they're guaranteeing before I commit to anything.
I'll keep an open mind. It's a UK Festival, not a Brexit festival per-se and I've bitten off my nose a few times in my lifetime and regretted it.
If there's something on close, it looks like it might be fun or, at least something the kids might enjoy I might join in. If, as I suspect, it turns out to be some kind of god awful twee throw-back to a rose tinted version of Britain that never existed, then no, sod that.
Frankly, I hope they make it a national holiday, we lag behind our European mates on freebie days off, it's usually a great day to head off into the hills for a ride - see Royal Weddings for details.
Celebrate the loss of mine and others freedoms? Celebrate the regression of UK society?
In other news, The government is putting Turing on a £50 note. Whils still trying to deport gay asylum seekers back to countries where they face the death penalty for being gay.
It could all end up a bit 'Wicker Man'
Or a nationwide version of Banksy's Dismaland.
I know a few progressive Arts organisations are getting on board with this, either in the guise of making the best of things or simply as a by product of trying to source funding.
In the end it's the same as getting sponsorship from a Tobacco company, an oil company or a multinational bank I guess.
I think the moral thing for artists to do in this circumstance is to spend the money on coke and hookers (or equivalent), just take the money and run, that would embody the spirit of Brexit best.
Better still, I propose an art project where once the funds are received they are immediately deposited in an off shore tax haven. As a conceptual piece it would be both watertight and profound.
but I said the 2012 Olympics would be a disaster and that turned out ok.
There's a bit of an ongoing crisis resulting from the former olympic park and facilities, which are still costing a lot of money and will cost a lot of money to turn into something useful.
As others have said, a day off is a day off.
I think the moral thing for artists to do in this circumstance is to spend the money on coke and hookers (or equivalent), just take the money and run, that would embody the spirit of Brexit best.
That is actually genius, take the money and run! It is the way!
I have changed my mind. I think we should have BREXIT day but 51% of the time it should celebrate all the things that are great about Britain such as real ale and pork pies and then 49% of the time we celebrate all that is great about Europe such as freedom of travel, protected workers rights, food, inter-culturalism, consumer protection laws etc
I reckon it'll be like this, only it'll start out this shit...
That is actually genius, take the money and run! It is the way!
It is. How do you think the money will be spent? It will be given to more cronies of ministers and Tory party donors.
In fact, it will the perfect metaphor for Brexit itself - in (comparative) microcosm. A pointless load of shit that will serve no purpose other than to line the pockets of the kleptocrats further whilst dazzling a bunch of ****wits who walk around goggling at anything with a plaggy union jack shabbily glued onto it.
Festival of Brexit?
Shove it up your poo pipe, Boris.
Definitely not keen here but when is it scheduled for?
Depending on the timing I wonder if it will just morph into a kind of "The Worst of Coronavirus is over" festival instead.
Either way, still not interested.
Flags, populist arsehole of a leader, nationalism, maybe a parade or two?
Could we not just write "there is a festival of brexit and it's great" on the side of a bus and then not do anything?
If there's a day off ,I will go to work.
Could we not just write “there is a festival of brexit and it’s great” on the side of a bus and then not do anything?
Anything is possible if you pay the right 'consultants' enough....
Is the KLF doing anything? Burning a million flags?
Last time I saw Bill Drummond he did some weird performance art thing which as far as I could tell was just shining people's shoes, really badly. I'm not sure a million flags are in budget, especially considering how high demand is in cabinet offices etc.
I do wonder if they intend any events in Scotland? that would be interesting
the only way I would join in is to wave around a big EU flag
Revel in a crappy art installation and Legs Akimbo style theatre workshops in every major city, while consultants pocket the bulk of the money.
I’m not sure a million flags are in budget
Think more like Drummond… get a million people to bring a flag each, using adverts in the Daily Mail. Make a big display, lock the contributors in, and then blast the willing public with white noise while you burn all their flags. End it all with God Save The Queen played on kazoos.
NFW
but if I was there it'd also be with a EU flag
and any brexshit 50p coins modified to have the 12 stars on them
and if there's a day off, I'd explicitly do my best to adjust my shift pattern to work that day and take a different day off
You’re all too negative - given the numbers now dependant on food banks the Land Army initiative sounds just the ticket 😀
See this wound? how much salt do you want rubbed in it?
The Olympics were something to celebrate. I don't recall half the population disapproving.
Unless there is a Cold War Steve exhibition to go to I won't be joining in.
**** me, did I read that correctly?
A Celebration of British weather.
Eh?
Even a day trip to Calais would beat this.
My first thought was Banksy's Dismaland on steroids.
As a performer in the 2012 Opening Ceremony (hence my moniker) and seen the organisation that went into it - there's a travelling army of international producers that rock-up every couple of years to facilitate events - as we've given the big f-off to foreign workers, why on earth would they want to come here?
You'd also be seriously deluded to think that the creative industries that have been absolutely shafted by this Government are going to want anything to do with it. Mind you, the production team who did the 2012 TV series would make a great mockumentary.
See this wound? how much salt do you want rubbed in it?
I couldn't really give a shit about them gloating over their pyrrhic victory, they're the type of people who need to gloat to try to cover up their petty insecurities. That's why they voted Leave anyway.
Leave 'em to it. They'll end up looking like what they are. Thick, gullible tw*ts wasting their money queuing in the pissing rain for an unbelievably tacky and crap fake version of something from the real world. Let them eat cake. **** em.
a nationwide festival of creativity aimed at bringing the UK together in 2022.
Yeah? Could do with some of that couldn’t we? Creativity? Healing
The festival remains a divisive one. In some eyes it is a politically motivated “festival of Brexit”
Oh. Well done Guardian writer. Guarding against healing divisions. Even an unattributed “quote”, straight from the playbook of The Tabloid.
the only way I would join in is to wave around a big EU flag
I planted 3 EU flags on the perimeter fence at Chequers to celebrate the new year, looks like I better buy some bigger and better ones, did I not read that you no longer need planning permission for flag poles anymore 🤔
It's going to be a bunch of National Front morons and those people you get lining the streets at Royal Weddings conga-ing like blair and he queen on the millennium isn't it?
you'll go in under a Giant Colossus of Hoey, legs akimbo with some union flag bearskin wearing Nigel Faridge Queen's guards beside it.
I can image those £1 electric boat games where half the boats are the Geldof Armada and half Faridge.
It'll be absolute shite.
I do hope they employ a witty closet remainer, though, who does something clever (that, of course, is unnoticed by the thickos) like naming the mascot with an anagram of 'thick bastards' or somesuch.
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I for one won't be having anything to do with it why would I want to celebrate one of the biggest mistakes this country as ever made
EU flag will be flown at our house all day, alongside the Hammer and Sickle... will watch the Gammons in the village turn to dust.
They should also hold it in somewhere like Jaywick in Essex to complete the post-apocalyptic feel, on the pretext that it will encourage some regeneration to the shittiest place in the UK. I'm the predominantly white, racist bigots living there will welcome more of their ilk.
