On the Party in the Ark the BBI is right

Any period that follows a council meeting is usually newsier than other times in the council calendar ... and the spell after the annual budget decisions are made is busier than most.
Reaction from our local newspapers has been at both ends of the editorial spectrum.
The Standard has taken an overall view of the budget and the cuts that will follow it.
The Target, however, sees sit largely in terms of the Party in the Park - dubbing the council "party poopers" for suspending the event to save more than £80,000.
We're surprised by this.
Who in their right minds could fail to criticise a council that was faced with the need to make major financial savings if it persisted to run a booze-up in a town which already famously fails to count its calories?
Generally speaking, we think that the Boston Bypass Independents are doing a fairly poor job of running the borough - but on this issue they are right.
The party was staged to mark the millennium. Because there has always been an issue over the year which actually marked this temporal milestone, if was reasonable to stage it in both 2000 and 2001.
But because the townsfolk embraced the concept of a free to visit musical knees-up, and our then masters were suckers for fireworks, the party has just gone on and on and on.
It passed its sell-by date some while ago (the Party in the Ark, perhaps,) and the point at which it was cancelled due to bad weather would have been an ideal one to kick it into touch.
But the BBI decided to keep it alive - although it couldn't resist meddling with the way it was run, resulting in an admission policy coupled with a poor line-up that resulted in a major slump in attendance, which the politicians blamed on the weather (well, it couldn't be their fault, could it?).
The time for events like this is now well and truly over unless they are completely privatised and handed to outside organisers who have to make such an event not only self funding but profitable.
In these straitened times, the BBI does not have to resort to parties to cheer us up.
They're already doing enough to make us laugh as it is!

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