Capital of Culture bid folly

Sir, – We witness an explosion of outrage that the EU has denied candidacy of Dundee to participate in the EU Capital of Culture lottery.

The blame, as we have come to expect from SNP acolytes, is squarely placed with the Tory Government.

But what does the whole notion of EU Capital of Culture mean? We have seen Hull become the UK City of Culture 2017 recently!

The common understanding of the term “culture” is “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.”

Are we deluding ourselves that, in all of the member countries of the EU, Dundee would be recognised above everyone else as having a history of cultural development and is facing a future cultural transformation in matters of the arts and intellectual and social development ?

It seems to me to have always been a vainglorious vanity project.

If the intention was that the (remote) possibility of achieving Capital of Culture recognition would bring local economic benefit, then Dundee would be far better off concentrating on promoting its location and its universities to raise its image in the UK first, before attempting the impossible further afield.

Reaction to Dundee’s Capital of Culture bid is just another moneyThe wasting example of faux outrage and a lack of understanding of world realities. Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.

Is that not one of the main reasons people voted Leave – not racism as Remainers would like to claim, but a cry to the Government to listen to the many and not the few, and to put ordinary British people first?