Will The Arts Survive Brexit?

[Marshwarble]

Do you particularly care? My feeling is no.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/huge-creative-step-backwards-arts-view-brexit-eu-referendum

[Gromit]

Will The Arts Survive Brexit? - Yes

Do you particularly care? - Yes, the Arts reflect our culture

My feeling is no. - You are entitled to your opinion, even though it makes you look like a moron :-)

[Svejk]

Put me down as another moron. (if you haven't already)

[Old_Geezer]

No. We will never see another painting again, nor a statue. Music and plays will disappear. It will become a wasteland and the wind will blow and the lightning strike until all is rubble underfoot. Oh hang on a minute, this isn't another nonsense scare story is it ? Surely not.

[Marshwarble]

For someone who is not a moron these are rather evasive answers. Why are you voting for Brexit despite its damage to the arts?

[dannyk13]

We were not a cultural wasteland before we joined and we will not be one after we leave.

[Old_Geezer]

Despite it having next to zero effect on the arts ? Because things that are less important and small in affect has next to no sway in an argument which is about the massive issue of grabbing the chance of freedom whilst it is there.

It's been said umpteen times before, we pay more into the EU than we get out. So if there is presently EU funding for something, that can be replaced by UK funding once we have escaped, if the funding is considered justifiable.

So there is a little paperwork to have folk come across the border to work, good ! Anyone would think there were no arts prior to the EEC. I have no idea how Shakespeare got on then.

[janbee]

The arts survived BEFORE the eu and they will continue to survive again after we leave.

[naomi24]

The arts will survive - they always have - and yes, I do care. God, how cowardly (no pun intended) the Remainers are!!

[ToraToraTora]

yes janbee as did most things, but to listen to the remainiacs we'll suffer the 10 plagues of egypt!

[naomi24]

Is there one area they've forgotten? Regardless of where we look scare stories abound.

[ladybirder]

Of course they will and Yes I care, very much so.

[youngmafbog]

They still have to go:
Plague of locusts
All puppy dogs will die
First borns will suffer a plague of boils
The sky will fall in.

Chicken licken is their pr advisor clearly.

[ToraToraTora]

..Then there's the Klingon Phage........

[viv41]

Blimey, what WILL the remainers come up with next !!

[New Judge]

“Why are you voting for Brexit despite its damage to the arts?”

Once again I’ll ask my usual question (to which I rarely receive an answer): why and how do you think “The Arts” will be damaged by Brexit? Or is it simply another statement of “fact” designed to support Project Fear?

And to reply to your question, even if it were so (which I firmly believe it is not) I do care but if it meant sacrificing the Arts in return for sovereignty and self-determination then the Arts are a small price to pay.

[vulcan42]

What the people are saying in that article isn't an end to the arts but it will be more difficult in the future if we leave. Whether that's true or not is, like every argument against leaving, based on supposition. Anyway, what's wrong with being more difficult, this country has become soft, it's about time we had a strong backbone again.

[Khandro]

My god how the self-interested can squeal. Many UK individuals and companies are receiving funding from the EU (which is UK money in the first place) which enables them to make art and put on productions which few want to see.

[Bertrum]

Ok that's it I voting remain cant stand the thought never witnessing art such as 'Mother and Child Divided'. Totally gutted

[Marshwarble]

The EU has supported hundreds of creative projects-films, exhibitions, plays, festivals, etc. If there is no EU these projects are going to need to find a new backer or not go ahead.

I have a feeling that the majority on here won't change their mind. Still, it's a discussion.

[Bertrum]

I am 80% leaning towards exit but am still open to reasoned argument to remain, so far all I've heard is scare and bloody stupid reasons for not exiting