The Arts
thrive on melting pots and diversities, as does science and innovations. In
fact that Bohemia energy can be essential for renewals and creativity.
Never mind
our science and medicine - the creative industries are the UKs biggest export.
They rely on collaborations and inter-connections to other cultures. Creativity
has boomed since Europeans came here and some of the best people came here. Art
is often encouraged by different voices.
Ken Loach’s
funding comes from Europe and there is a lot of funding from France. Good films are
not being commissioned here. The award-winning film director Ken Loach – said in a recent tv interview that his tv
docudrama ‘Cathy come Home’(1766) would not get made today. It would be
stopped, he said, and it wouldn’t even get passed the script stage.
He also
has criticised the BBC News coverage as “manipulative and deeply political”. He
is promoting his Palme d’Or-winning film about a man’s struggle with the UK
benefits system, I, Daniel Blake, said there was a need to “democratise” the
corporation. “Diversify it so that different regions can make their own dramas.
And its notion of news has got to be challenged.”
We are not
telling our stories and not being heard, he claimed.
Perhaps the
rest of England is also fed up with all the focus and resources heading to
London too?
