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Bristol City Council under fire for art collection worth £134m - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by mannycalavera to c/bristol@lemmy.ml

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Ita a measure of priorities that the council can't pay it's staff properly to organise the streets to be swept or rubbish to be collected but can hoard millions of pounds worth of art.

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[–] mannycalavera 1 points 4 months ago

I'm sure you could also make the argument about the council owning lots of valuable land that has been hoarded and should be sold off, until you realise that this is land is actually parks.

I don't think anyone is asking for parks to be sold off.

Bristol council has been famous for the past sixteen years of mismanaging public finances. Yes all councils could be better funded by central government but we can't keep excusing poor financial management like this.

Ultimately it's about choices and if you're sitting on millions of pounds of art assets whilst you won't fund the care in the community you're charged with, well that's pretty shit.