Cause Of The Day

Save the Budgieman!

For some unaccountable reason, the local council (Southwark) has banned the long-established Budgieman (with a history of more than thirty years, for goodness' sake!) from continuing to perform on the South Bank in London.

It's a great act, and London's South Bank has been diminished as a result of the ban. Especially on a Bank Holiday such as today, when people might like to go up to London and experience such delights, it is very sad that this is one act that will no longer be there for them.

Now, I worked in that area for several years, and have known it well from when it was first developed into that wonderful cultural centre right up to the present day. There is absolutely no sensible reason for banning a popular and harmless act such as the Budgieman's performances. What is the problem?

Anyway, the Budgieman (Don Crown) is asking for signatories to a Facebook-hosted petition, which I have now signed (I'd have done so earlier, if the election campaign hadn't dominated my attention until recently, and I'm only now catching up) and I recommend that everyone reading this also signs it.

There haven't been all that many genuinely uplifting aspects to life in Britain in recent years, but this is one. It deserves your support, and you'll feel good for having done so!