This year the board at Festivals Edinburgh accepted £1 million in blood money from the Conservative government in London.

In a year that saw the UK government responsible for the deaths of close to 161,000 COVID victims due to the stupidity, incompetence, laziness, & alcoholism of Boris Johnson, the board of Festivals Edinburgh decided en masse to accept £1 million from the Conservative government.

That £1 million is cursed blood money. that money reeks with the pain & deaths of all those COVID victims.

At no point did the board of Festivals Edinburgh think that it was a terrible idea to accept that tainted blood money from the Oliver Dowden?! Or the moral & spiritual implications of such money?!

Here is the full list of the board of Festivals Edinburgh;

Chair

• Sorcha Carey: Director, Edinburgh Art Festival

Board Members

• Buster Howes: Chief Executive, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

• Paul Fitzpatrick: Executive Director, Edinburgh International Children's Festival

• Dr Simon Gage OBE: Director, Edinburgh Science Festival

• Ken Hay: CEO, Edinburgh International Film Festival

• Francesca Hegyi OBE: Executive Director, Edinburgh International Festival

• Shona McCarthy: Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

• Sophie Moxon: Operations & Finance Director, Edinburgh International Book Festival

• Donald Smith: Director, Scottish International Storytelling Festival

• Fiona Alexander: Producer of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

• Charlie Wood: Director, Edinburgh's Hogmanay

There are many superstitions & legends around the acceptance of blood money. I will not go into them here. However all of the board made this choice collectively. And all of them will have to live with the choice of the decision they made this year.

There are some things that money cannot buy