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Bletchley Park Faces Financial Rescue
biscuitfever11 writes "Just two months ago it seemed that Bletchley Park, the home of Station X, Britain's secret code-breaking base during the War, was doomed as the codebreakers' huts rotted and the site fell into disrepair. But today Britain's Lottery Fund is set to step in with a grant to rescue the ailing heritage site. (There was an earlier story on ZDNet.)"
Ahh, calling the lottery a tax, the idiots way of mocking other people's right to choose how they spend their money.
It might not be the flashiest of exhibits, but these people are on a VERY small budget. (Unlike, e.g. the National Air and Space Museum.) It's well worth visiting - if not for small kids. And buy a bit of roof when you are there :)
(one of which is now a tea room, ah yes, nice treatment of history there guys...)
I bet one of them was a tea-room during WWII, too, although they would have called it a canteen then.
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I guess the statement "We haven't put in an application yet" was missed by the OP. Bletchley isn't being rescued yet. They are in discussions preceding an application for the grant.
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I read the comments to this article just to get a joke along the lines of:
Oh the irony! A tax on those who are bad at math funding the history of the greatest mathematicians of WWII.
I am sorely disappointed, slashdotters. Was it too easy? Surely I'm not the only one that laughed at the though?
I agree. And in the UK specifically, that was true up to about the 1960s. Since then the poor have been getting more power, more say, more pandering, and there's more of them. Actually none of them are even genuinely, technically, poor any more. But since the late 60s the UK has been in steady decline. Now we have the fattest, drunkenest and most violent children in Europe, if not the World. That's what happens when you let the poor run a country. Lowest common denominator politics.