What Customs & Excise does with your money.
The Museum of Liverpool has concocted a plan for "the Liverpool birthplace of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr [to] be dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt" within the museum's precincts. I am not a huge fan of the Beatles (to put it mildly..) and the solo projects post split, apart from Harrison's funding of Handmade Films, but I would have thought that even Beatles obsessives might struggle to raise much interest in a house removed from its context and lacking in relics and the like.
Anyway, a quick sniff around the list of donors shows HM Customs & Excise along with the usual selection of local organisations & worthies, foundations and so on. And that noted scouser Loyd Grossman. Thanks a bunch.
Anyway, a quick sniff around the list of donors shows HM Customs & Excise along with the usual selection of local organisations & worthies, foundations and so on. And that noted scouser Loyd Grossman. Thanks a bunch.
Labels: Where your money goes
How is it that HMC&E are allowed to misuse taxpayers money like this?
Anyone have a serious answer?
How do I put 'allowed' into italics, or did I need to?
Croydonian said... 10:16 am
That's what I was wondering, although being charitable, maybe the money came from a whip round among the staff.
As to italics etc, surround the text with < I > at one end and < /I > at the other, removing the spaces around the bracketed characters. B does the same trick for bold, and U for underline.
Anonymous said... 2:28 pm
The reference to HMRC relates to the HM Customs & Excise Museum which they fund. The HM Customs & Excise Museum is a partnership between HMRC and National Museums Liverpool.
Croydonian said... 2:49 pm
Dawn hails from the Museum, so I guess she knows what she is talking about. However, the concept of the HM Customs & Excise Museum raises more questions.
Anonymous said... 5:16 am
I don't ask my bank to press my trousers and I don't expect HMC&E to finance a museum.
Not begrudging Dawn her job; would've liked one similar but funding should be from proper sources.
O/T I was told by my old morse instructors that the GPO (as it then was) had a museum in a cave in Cornwall near where Gweeglee-elmo Marconi did his 1905 radio experiments. Not many visitors but some cracking exhibits. (Hearsay but from pundits).
C. Tks fer info on html.
2nd-try update: it won't accept the "U"-tag.
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