Ewan's Blog - Councillor Ewan Aitken

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Relocation of Creative Scotland

I was annoyed to once again be told that there are further proposals to remove Civil Service jobs from the Capital just on the basis of numbers. In particular Creative Scotland, the new Scottish Arts body. It is a kind of ideological madness that says its more important to remove numbers of jobs rather than ask the more fundamental questions about what a capital needs. In this case, its a capital city which is a world leader in culture and the arts, so Nicol Stephen and George Lyon the Lib Dem ministers in charge of these relocations, want to move the driving force of the arts in Scotland out of Edinburgh. This anti-Edinburgh bias has to stop. On the one hand they want us to defend rural post offices and on the other they want to undermine our ability to be the Capital city. It's not good for the nation or it's capital.

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