Well with respect, a couple of points here..
It's a real shame SBC have seen fit to kill this off rather than use some of the funds raised to police the event properly...
Well with respect, a couple of points here...
Well, that's it then, the council has cancelled it all together now. Shame, used to be great fun.
Aw what? How do you know?
Removed all notice of it from the council websites, deleted the Web page, and only lists the Shakespeare one now, when both were listed before.
Now for starters, the fact that the event isn't listed by SBC is no guarantee that it has been kiboshed. As far as i know it's still on, though i'd be unsurprised to find out it's not.
The entire Leisure & Culture portfolio has been assumed by
Freedom Leisure, so it is to them that any potential 'ire' should be directed should it be 'discontinued'. One might ask them, for example, if they are fulfilling their remit to maintain 'exactly' the services that they had committed themselves to?
Will they 'maintain' the same level of service that was hitherto provided by SBC?
That's what they said they'll do, but will they?
It's a real shame SBC have seen fit to kill this off rather than use some of the funds raised to police the event properly...
This is an unintentionally funny sentence.
The whole reason the nature of the event was changed was entirely because of the
actual Police - they called the Event organisers, and the outsourced Head of the Security detail, into the Chief Constable's office the day after the event two years ago to answer one question;
Why was my entire mobile operation for the County called to your location last night?
Answer came there unsatisfactorily.
It was then made abundantly clear to the organisers that, if it were to go ahead for another year, the Event would have to be reinvented in a
dramatically different guise - otherwise the Staffordshire Police would not support their application for a licence to provide the kind of entertainment that it had hitherto been granted.
And thus a 'new' Event was born. A bit mas tranquillo.
Blame the dickheads if you must apportion blame, for it is upon them that blame should rightly be placed.