"The Councillor’s error – or rather that of his speech writer – was political not factual. His problem was that throughout the backslapping, trumpet blowing, Creative Industry eulogising event a vast elephant was wandering into the room with a nude Emperor on his back. By name-checking Stan’s Cafe he gave me permission to stand up and ask the obvious unasked question: “Thank you for the name check, please could you explain why, if you value us so highly, are you cutting our £10,000 revenue funding by 100%?” After thanking me for the question (cue laughter), the Councillor explained how superfast broadband was going to help us out. To be honest I didn’t follow his logic but that was probably me being slow. Fortunately Councillor Mullaney came to my aid, gamely explaining how things were much better for us all than they had been before our funding got wiped out. Now it all made sense."

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