Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton to close (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Why don't TDBC reinstate Castle Green to a car park? The income generated could subsidise the theatre and the reinstatement of this previously shoppers car-park will help the letting of the nearby (soon-to-close) HMV store.

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The closure of the Brewhouse Theatre is not unique to Taunton....Closures of this type are occuring all over the UK at an accelerating rate.

Cllr John Meikle and his Party's unelected coalition government of millionaires are the cause not the solution to this problem.

The unelected Coalition government of millionaires' (and their New 'Labour' apologists, eg Southampton city Council) austerity programme of cuts is laying waste to the arts all around the UK!.. these cuts to arts funding sit alongside the cuts to (and accelerating privatisation of) all our public services (including, fire brigades, NHS and state education), increased/increasig levels of university tuition fees, abolishing EMA, cuts to our pension (paying more, working longer, receiving less), cuts to our benefits, cuts to our wages, cuts to housing benefit (aka bedroom tax), cuts to council tax benefits (which holds similarities to Thatcher's hated and defeated poll tax) rising electricity, gas and water bills, rising train, bus and petrol/ diesel prices, rising food prices...yet the likes of Starbucks (and they are by no means alone) paid not ONE SINGLE PENNY corporation tax in the last three years. These corporate thieves disclosed that since its arrival in Britain in 1998, it has paid £8.5 million in corporation tax, despite total sales of what they claim to be £3 billion after claiming that it had made a profit in only one single year! The corporations are sitting on more than £700billion that they do not know what to do with, as there is no profitable outlet for this amassed capital within the framework of the organically sick and diseased capitalist system...By stashing this monumental mountain of capital in the banks rather than investing it in developing the economy and society they are as Marx explained "betraying their historic mission".

If only half of this £700 billion were made immediately available through the imposition of a windfall-tax on the corporations, what could be achieved?

How many Brewhouse theatres would that fund?

How many houses would that build?

How many jobs would that provide?

How many hospitals or schools could that build fund and maintain?

It would mean that the super-rich would have to relinquish the lie that there is a deficit that we have all run up and that we all have to now pay for. It would mean that the 1% super-rich could be forced back in their war on the 99%...

The main capitalist parties won't do anything about this. A workers' government must close these loopholes and take these companies into democratic public ownership.

Don't just get angry....

Get Organised!....

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Being realist Taunton has not moved much in attitude since it was branded as "Cider City" when I first found employment at Blagdon Lodge in Middleway.
Certainly provision for those interested in music fell when facilities for large
concerts disappeared following reverting the status of the cinema in
Corporation Street to that of a Bingo Hall. In addition the closure of the
facilities provided at the County Hotel have deprived Taunton of another
venue for entertainment. The substitute, the Brewhouse Theatre, being little more than a large village hall with an outrageously large support workforce was doomed to failure. On the other hand Barnstaple still has its "Queens" which attracts support as do theatres in Jersey and the Isle of Man with lower populations than Taunton so one concludes that those who, supposedly, on election, have citizens' best interests in mind conclude that Taunton is not deserved of a worthwhile theatre: their present "huffing and puffing" being no
more than political gesturing!

Being realist Taunton has not moved much in attitude since it was branded as "Cider City" when I first found employment at Blagdon Lodge in Middleway.
Certainly provision for those interested in music fell when facilities for large
concerts disappeared following reverting the status of the cinema in
Corporation Street to that of a Bingo Hall. In addition the closure of the
facilities provided at the County Hotel have deprived Taunton of another
venue for entertainment. The substitute, the Brewhouse Theatre, being little more than a large village hall with an outrageously large support workforce was doomed to failure. On the other hand Barnstaple still has its "Queens" which attracts support as do theatres in Jersey and the Isle of Man with lower populations than Taunton so one concludes that those who, supposedly, on election, have citizens' best interests in mind conclude that Taunton is not deserved of a worthwhile theatre: their present "huffing and puffing" being no
more than political gesturing!