Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin

biscuitfever11 writes "Bletchley Park, the home of Station X, Britain's secret code-breaking base during World War II, is barely scraping by financially, as shown in these images compiled by ZDNet this week. The site has undergone major redevelopment as an act of remembrance for the Allied efforts to break the German Enigma code, but now its future is clouded — among others, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation turned them down for financial assistance (since it doesn't have to do with the Internet). Its director estimates that Bletchley Park's funds will be exhausted in three years. Hungry land developers are circling. This is an insightful look at what's happened to Bletchley Park these days and the pain it's going through."

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The real problem

[Pig Hogger]

This is the problem with anglo-saxon, bourgeois societies such as the UK and the US.

Everything has a price tag. Everything costs something, and everyone should get something hard for everything he does.

No wonder that those countries economies are circling down the drain: long-term viability is sacrificed to the short-term gain.

It's no wonder that they so wantonly ignore their histories!!!!

A symbol of Freedom is biting the dust,

[pcfixup4ua]

One guy named Andrew Meridith posted as a reply there

I guess President Brown et cronies won't be chipping in either, as the excellent Bletchley Park Museum is a reminder of the miracles performed there during the war to defend the freedoms they're now systematically stomping all over.

I think it is not suprising that as we descend into fascism, that the symbols of freedom are decaying.