Snibston to close

Disgusting.

 

In the words of Cat Stevens, "where do the children play?"

This is Britain's future - concrete everything over so that the land speculators are kept happy. Never mind the kids and family days out, they can stay in their bedrooms and play on their computers. As they've run out of school playing fields to sell for housing, they'll flog off places like Snibston.

John

 

God bless government cutbacks

 

If we don't build more houses, the kids wont have bedrooms.

 

Thank goodness the opposition haven't signed up for austerity too... oh, wait

 

There is no real difference between the three main parties; all are answerable, when in government, to the banks. We end up paying with cutbacks, for their greed and stupidity. Austerity for us, not them.

John

 

£900k per year to run the current museum - yoiks!

 

Vote SDHP (steam and diesel heritage party)!!

 

Vote @RalphW for President!

 

Have you actually seen the froth, wibble and pointless bickering on every single railway-related forum? Gawd save us...It makes the House of Commons look like a sedate tea in Claridges.
Railway buffs running the country? It's the very definition of the lunatics taking over the asylum...

 

Given the choice of @RalphW / Natpres on the ballot paper, and some of the current political parties, I know who'd get my vote.

Anyway, back to Snibston ...

 

Yep Tory led cuts as we'd expect - so what's next NRM, Shildon, Science Museum(s) - at the very least admission charges are on the Horizon if this shower get back in May . . . What's the other lot got to offer - oh heck . . . .

The comment (not mine) on Facebook on this naff decision sums them (the Tory's) up - "they know the cost of everything, and the value of nowt"

 

All the talk about austerity, but what will the future be for the snibston austerity?

 

So what you're really asking for is the local taxpayers to stump up even more council tax to save a museum because that's what it boils down to.

 

It's a tiny fraction of what the taxpayers had to stump up for the banks when their greed nearly brought down the world economy. I believe that we still subsidise their inflated salaries and bonuses in the semi-nationalised banks.

John

 

What is the purpose of the museum?

Simon

 

What it boils down to is that local authorities are the worst possible organisations to operate heritage sites of this type. £900,000 just to run it for one year? They must be joking! Council tax payers would be better served if the money was spent as grant aid to heritage railways and similar voluntary or privately run attractions or, better still, on the essential services that councils were originally set up to, and have a duty, to provide.