Who funds the trust...
The Death of Free Speech? Roy Chubby Brown Gig Cancelled
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It’s still a charity and the charity made the decision to cancel the show. As someone else said, if he only sold 300 tickets was it even the charity who decided to cancel?
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Holy crap, I never knew he was called Royston Vasey. 
Some people think that we're on the edge of totalitarian rule, and then there are people like you who think that it's pathetic to suggest such a thing. Some perspective and context is all I'm really asking for
In this case, I think it’s pathetic for suggesting that the cancellation of a Roy Chubby Brown concert is in any way indicative of a totalitarian state yes.
I'll ask again, who funds the trust?
Jimmy Savile
Looks like they got a big government grant? So?
In this case, I think it’s pathetic for suggesting that the cancellation of a Roy Chubby Brown concert is in any way indicative of a totalitarian state yes.
Well you're talking as if totalitarianism is a binary thing, which it's not*. People don't become supportive of brutal regimes overnight from a position of complete freedom. If you recognise that then I guess you just see today's society as freer than I do, which you're entitled to do of course. To be clear, I don't think it's time for revolution or anything just because this event got cancelled, but I do welcome people raising concerns over freedom of speech regularly because it's so important and I do think that there is too much control these days, which if allowed to escalate could easily lead us to a bad place.
EDIT: *I suppose you could say totalitarianism is binary. Perhaps authoritarianism would be a better term to use, and once you reach a high state of authoritarianism you have totalitarianism.
Doesn't surprise me, even something pretty tame only fools and horses is getting edited, censored and warning messages put at the start of episodes. This dozy cow done a review of an episode and was "moritifed". https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle/lifestyle-opinion/i-watched-only-fools-horses-19429327
Its funded by the government and, most importantly the vast majority by the local council.
Ironic that you were whining about people in GD being trolls...
So the council ought to stop funding it then, problem solved.
I answered the question.
Using your logic, Case King has cancelled me because I can’t swear on the forum.
No case King are still allowing you to use the forum, they're just restricting your use of language. RCB had been presented from speaking full stop.
Additionally case King are a private company. Not a publicly funded foundation.
I suspect if they did it would wither and die.
Comedy is subjective so what one person finds funny and another doesn't has no place, really, in this debate. He is of the old school, I never liked him when many of my friends did, but to my first point.
I don't think he should have been banned. His audiences are made up of men and women so his sexist 'comedy' was not the domain of the few as his sales show. We have a new generation of self important edgy comics, like each generation but they just chose different topics and pitch it as "we are getting at those people who really mean what we joke about". Yea, pull the other one. What next, cancel Gervais, Carr and Boyle for their fixation on pedophilia, disabled and other such like. Nah, they have a more modern following and that would cause a backlash, let's pick on the dying breed to make a point.
I see no valid reason for banning him.
I don't think he should have been banned. His audiences are made up of men and women so his sexist 'comedy' was not the domain of the few as his sales show. We have a new generation of self important edgy comics, like each generation but they just chose different topics and pitch it as "we are getting at those people who really mean what we joke about". Yea, pull the other one. What next, cancel Gervais, Carr and Boyle for their fixation on pedophilia, disabled and other such like. Nah, they have a more modern following and that would cause a backlash, let's pick on the dying breed to make a point.
I see no valid reason for banning him.
You got the figures for that as i believe that was only during the pandemic?
SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST - 223760 (charitycommission.gov.uk)
I assume this is the correct company. Prior to that its not exactly clear who was funding them.