Oh dear.

Is there a single person who will vote in this election according to arts policy? Seriously: does anyone intend to vote because of what the different parties propose to do for – or, in the case of the Tories, no doubt, to – the arts? Not me, and not anyone I can imagine without shuddering. At these kinds of times, when the nation’s future is held in the electoral balance, you realise exactly how silly and trivial the media fiction of “the arts” actually is.

I love art but I feel nothing at all about “the arts”. Only bureaucrats, TV executives and editors believe “the arts” exist as a corporate category, an interest group. I don’t want to belong to any interest group that would have me for a member. What kind of petty-minded person would put the cultural comforts of the middle classes ahead of schools, jobs and the NHS? There is a world out there, arty people, and this election is about that world.

Oh dear oh dear.

I have just read this article on the Guardian website posted by a Mr Jonathan Jones. What a twat. He doesn’t spare a thought for the many people whose careers will be on the line, whose families could suffer because of cuts in arts funding. How can this guy so boldly separate ‘the arts’ from education, from our culture and ideological beliefs? He stupidly divides the ‘world out there’ and the people in said world.

I love art but I feel nothing at all about “the arts”

Argh. This man’s love is clearly not worth much.

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