The Festival of Gloating

#FestivalOfBrexit

£5 per person engaged — £8 if you exclude the people who happened to be watching "Countryfile" on the telly — seems expensive for a programme of events prioritising digital and broadcast delivery.

(I wish all the stretch goals I had at work involved cutting the targets for key performance indicators by 86%)

#Brexit
#FestivalOfBrexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/116m-brexit-festival-saw-just-a-fraction-of-visitors-and-income-predicted

Lack of audience engagement at the Tories’ #UNBOXED festival which was intended as a celebration of #Brexit.

#FestivalOfBrexit #UK #BrexitBritain #Tories
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2022/12/03/investigation-into-the-brexit-unboxed-festival/

Cold War Steve #Brexit #FestivalOfBrexit #Farage

The Festival of Brexit known as "Unboxed" cost the British taxpayer £120 million and attracted a total British audience of 18 million.
That means we paid each £6.67 million pounds per audience member. Worth mentioning to your MP, I'd say ...
#brexit
#festivalofbrexit
#unboxed

Just like #Brexit... the ridiculous goes on.

“That such an exorbitant amount of public cash has been spent on a so-called celebration of creativity that has barely failed to register in the public consciousness raises serious red flags about how the project has been managed from conception through to delivery.”

‘#FestivalOfBrexit’ visitor numbers fall short of expectations

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/22/just-28-million-people-visited-live-festival-of-brexit-events-organisers-say

The #FestivalofBrexit which never was, #Unboxed gets its retaliation in first before the independent NAO report. Clutching at straws with numbers, rewriting audience reach and pushing the usual unfounded cultural assertions about impact. £120 million anyone? https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/22/just-28-million-people-visited-live-festival-of-brexit-events-organisers-say

Just as #Brexit is a dismal failure, it's flag waving celebration #FestivalOfBrexit is also a vacuum sucking void for public money.

#GTTO
#ToryCorruption
#BrexitBritain

'Number of visitors to £120m Unboxed project, under investigation by spending watchdog'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/22/just-28-million-people-visited-live-festival-of-brexit-events-organisers-say?CMP=share_btn_tw