Sdapeze's Colchester

I see that an amount of £35000 of our money is being offered to employ a person to organise festival events for Colchester. This money won't actually give us a festival; it will give us another council employee. The Colchester Festival Association, an organisation formed in 2000 with a superb track record of providing festival events in Colchester, would have used this money to actually provide a festival for the town, not to employ somebody to run one. They would have done it for nothing, for the love of their town, for the good of the community, for the prestige and trade that it would bring. They did it for five years for nothing, by raising money through sponsorship and grants, having to actually pay the council for services rather than for those services to be given freely by the council. Where is the logic in all this?

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