The London Underground.

In regard to the recent article featured in Thursday's Evening Standard, the Arts Council's position seems to be under attack from the governments frenzied cuttings. The real problem that is apparent here in these times of economic turmoil and uncertainty is that there simply isn't enough production and manufacture happening here.

This country was always through  the pages of history a very lucrative place to be, we had the raw materials and the ingenuity to be able to take the very fabric of the countryside and turn it not only into a means of sustenance, but so much more than that, with the development of labour saving technologies medicinal technologies and humanitarian policy.

In recent years we have seen the huge increases in the prices of certain commodities, take fuel and property alone, using just those two examples as a means of gauging production and consumption. Both could now be argued as a limited resource, and ones given the anticipated continued population explosions would denote that perhaps this trend of taking commodities that used to be plentiful and are now perceivably harder to evenly distribute. If you take those commodities out of the reach of the poorest people by means of overvaluation then they become less accustomed to being so reliant on it. Anyone familiar with the enclosure acts of the 1700s knows that  the dividing and redistribution of common land was tackled in much the same way, then those who would ordinarily desire those commodities will 'choose' to be less dependent on them as financial constraint's coerce them into finding a more economically viable means within the limits of their own budgets.

Phew, so when the creatives are undermined and ridiculed, you know that as our last testament to a productive people that could actually work themselves out of poverty using only the land that they were born into dwindles from the imagination of the majority that have allowed themselves to be blindsided.

Leave it to those with the sense of imagination and direction, to try something different and personally I can think of no better way to begin than to take the land back from those that would keep it from us, and to encourage as many as would care to live a different way to steer our infra-structure back to the people relying on themselves a little more instead of having to show obedient gratitude for the minimum we are granted by the powers that be .