Money squandered
I wrote recently to express my dismay at the award of hefty sums from public funds for the Derngate Theatre Northampton.
I can now follow that with an even bigger ACE blunder that has seen £30 million of tax-payers’ money squandered and now written off on the monstrosity called the Public in West Bromwich (an area in which I worked for 26 years, before moving here to the Isle of Man), where the total cost of this folly has risen to £72 million amidst calls for it to be demolished.
Accountability and the spending of public money do not always go hand in hand. There are many schemes which are worthy of far more support than they are getting, but which miss out because massive sums are being blown by those who, frankly, are out of their depth and who ought never to have been appointed in the first place. Meanwhile, Hackney goes dark while the brains try to find a solution.
Bernard Hanson
Cherry Orchard
Port Erin
Isle of Man
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