Theresa May sets aside £120m to plan 'Festival of Brexit Britain' - Polidicks

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff2fdbe6e-c424-11e8-bd5d-f3e600cd5946.jpg?crop=2250%2C1266%2C0%2C117 The event, called the Festival, is designed to pump billions of pounds into the economy and has conscious echoes of Queen Victoria’s Great Exhibition in 1851 and the Festival of Britain in 1951 ... Ministers are to set aside £120m to plan the event and hire a creative director. Neil MacGregor, the broadcaster and former director of the British Museum, and senior figures from the London 2012 Olympics are in the running to take charge. The festival will be one of a number of celebrations already due to take place that year — including the 75th anniversary of the Edinburgh International and Fringe festivals, the 100th birthday of the BBC and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. May announces plans for festival celebrating UK in 2022 [The Guardian] Theresa May tells Tory rebels, back Chequers deal and ‘stop playing politics with Brexit' [The Times interview, registration required] I'll keep my £2, thanks. Boris Johnson's idea to rival this is a bridge to Ireland. The magic money tree keeps on giving!

Last time we had one of these it was a desperate attempt to rekindle some meagre sense of national pride in a country that was rapidly losing the world power status it had come to take for granted, so it seems like as good a time as any to do another one

Can't wait to celebrate shooting ourselves in the foot

I guess the original title of Kicking Yourself in the Bollocks Festival got rejected, huh? Hey, here's an idea: how about instead of a monument to your own idiocy in a few years, you spend that money now to soften the Brexit blow?

it should just be christening ceremony of a big UK-shaped ship may god bless the UK and all who sail on her

I think we should make something really big and circular, a dome, if you will. It could bring people in from all over the world!

hold it in belfast

People stand to lose their jobs over Brexit and these fuckers want to hold a party to celebrate it

Isnt going to be hosted in Wetherspoons, isnt it?

NHS funding is typically announced on the sides of buses.

Here's a plan. We, the tax payers. Will let you, Mrs may. Keep that money, if you cancel this entire farce. Because it sure as shit isn't going to be worth anything when you eventually drive this bus called Britain straight over the cliff edge of Brexit.

The NHS would just waste it on something stupid like medicine or paying their staff.

Commonwealth invited, no republics allowed.

You should know an quarter of members of Commonwealth of Nations are Republics even they no longer Commonwealth nations.

Thanks, but we're happy not joining this colossal clusterfuck.

That isn't new information, Commonwealth invited, no republics. In other words, if you don't follow the Queen gtfo. No want wants the son who turned their flag into a symbol of a leaf.

People literally forget to put New Zealand on maps.

lol actual bread and circuses in 2018

As long as we can have fairground game stalls like "shoot yourself in the foot to win a prize: it's nothing"

If they try to make this brexit themed in anyway its either going to need a massive police presence around it or its going to get protested to fuck. That or a "fuck the tories" counter festival will be set up nearby.

Don't worry, we'll exclude any country that has ever considered or held referendums on turning their flag into a symbol of a leaf

That's a good thing, maybe it will finally cut down on immigration.

I too get all of my information on other nations from Polandball comics.

I thought I'd seen the extents of your childish behaviour but this is a new level of embarrassment.

Obviously you don't get the joke, because you know this entire thing is a joke, a Festival for Brexit. Come on.

"I was only pretending to be retarded." I agree with you that this Brexit World's Fair idea is fucking hilarious and stupid, though.

So is 120 million GBP just the going rate for a country's funeral?

That or the £1 Billion they paid to buy the support of the DUP.

That's all your spending on us for throwing the country off a cliff? A country wide festival as well. There are arms contracts to small nations that make that back in a year I mean come on! At least give us a day off or something substantial, I'm not going to some shitty pissing it down with rain "sorry we ruined so many things festival" Tories just couldn't let it go, ask us what we want and everything had skewed facts. Then marginal win for leave voters comes and you don't have another because "direct democracy". No, you're going to have to do a lot better than that. First off start acting like an actual government body instead of a self back patting pitty committee and then we can talk about what the fuck just happened. Don't celebrate it for Christ sake what is wrong with the tories?

British World Importance complex strikes again.