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What a piss take for the locals.
Be more French. Don't put up with this shite!
How can a private company dictate to the people what they can and can't do in their own city...?
Glad the police have said it's not enforceable.
Mate and I were going to drive up and spend the night with his brother, but we're lazy so have decided on his gaff in Brighton.
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What?
Police haven't said it's not enforcable, they've just said that it's not a police matter.
TBH a lot of it seems to be people with axes to grind. Like, there is no "6 person limit" as a lot of people are saying, that's just the automatic allocation- if you want more, you just have to ask. That's literally on the event website, you don't have to dig.
i don't like the ticketing- I remember when it was brought in and it was mostly the wrong reaction to issues that had been caused by bad planning and terrible policing (I was right in the thick of the crushes at the Mound that were the biggest reason for the ticketing and numbers caps, and the real problem was that they'd left the steel fences in place which nobody could see as they were so low, so the crowd surged into them and nobody could understand why the people 3 feet in front had stopped... And there were 30 police on the steps of the gallery just watching. Would have been very ugly had there not been people in the crowd taking care of it.)
But I think the reactions are pretty OTT too, it isn't really any different to before after all.
Completely wrong in my view. A resident has the right to invite guests to their property without someone demanding they need passes.
It’s been like this for yonks. Dunno why it is suddenly news
Think it's a certain group agitating who are possibly associated with one of the losing bidders to run this stuff or believe their was some corruption in the way the organiser was selected.
Christmas / Hogmanay always used to be run by the council. They've now contracted this out to one of the big "fringe" festival firms who are much more commercial and have to make lots of money to cover the price they paid the council for the rights and make some profit.
Edinburgh is a shite hole from the moment they lay the first board for the "Christmas market" right through until they lift it.
For like 8weeks over winter public spaces are privatised and gullible Muppets flock in.
Then we get a few months rest and the festival starts and a whole different cluster **** of shiteholiness begins.
Isn't it really just a fact of life that if you live in such a place, you have to expect this kinda stuff, ditto the festival?.
I live right in the middle of a very busy town, folk abandon cars for days, walk past drunk and loud, but it's a price I pay for living slap bang in what is an otherwise great wee town.
They could always AirBnB their pads out for the nights, seems to be the done thing in Solnsauce land? 😊
Isn’t it really just a fact of life that if you live in such a place, you have to expect this kinda stuff, ditto the festival?.
Kind of I guess.
But I'd say there was a difference between city living.
And having the city completely taken over by commercial enterprises for months on end.
And where the **** is TJ? This is right up his strasse!
Hello?
I was up town for the last time before it was numbers restricted. It was terrifying to be caught in a crush like that so something needed to be done. The only other option is to scrap the whole event.
As northwind points out residents are not being charged for access and can get as many passes as they want for guests - same as for the last few years
As far as I am aware this is a storm in a teacup but Edinburgh council are far too cosy with a number of big firms in various areas and are generally incompetent
I tend to agree with Joshvegas thos - Edinburgh is suffering from too much tourism like many cities.
Is CEC still funding this and the festivals?
I'm all for festivals etc though. Peebles is put at an inconvenience a few times a year when they shut the high street and I fully approve.
Similarly Edinburgh marathon. Beltane etc. Short-term inconvenience is pretty healthy I reckon.
But the block booking type arrangements are shonky.
"The expenditure budget for Hogmanay has remained at £4million (the same level as the last year of the previous contract in 16/17) but Underbelly delivers this with 38% less public funding than was needed in 16/17.
Public funding now makes up just 27% of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay income budget (compared to 41% in 16/17). Ticket income contributes 61% and the balance is derived from other commercial revenue streams."