Welsh National Museum Spends Taxpayer Cash on Extinction Rebellion Posters – Guido Fawkes

Welsh National Museum Spends Taxpayer Cash on Extinction Rebellion Posters

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UK DOGE sees numerous analyses concerning wasteful spending in UK taxpayer-funded arts budgets. Over in Wales the National Museum, which has received £76 million in mostly taxpayer grants in the last two years, has come under scrutiny for its stranger exhibits. One of those is a collection of pieces of paper with Extinction Rebellion branding on it. Another exhibit is a display promoting the short-lived local newspaper The Dynamic, which campaigned against Brexit and Tories for two years before folding in 2017. UK DOGE research has discovered that the pieces of paper have set the taxpayer back £520 while the anti-Brexit newspaper display cost £5,000. National Museum Wales runs a £1.5m year-on-year funding deficit…

For that you could:

• Fill 77 potholes.
• Buy 11,040 surgical masks for doctors.
• Buy four Army standard issue SA80 assault rifles.

The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. Welsh Tory shadow culture secretary Gareth Davies reacts: “If this level of waste has been uncovered here, how much more has been squandered across Museum Wales?” UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…