Can you imagine the Royal Marines telling their musicians that they weren’t needed any more? – Scotsman.com News
ONLY in Scotland could musicians playing our national music to a world class level be so despised.
It beggars belief that the philistines who occupy police headquarters at Pitt Street in Glasgow could plot the demise of the iconic ensemble that is Strathclyde Police Pipe Band – and gloat about it in the name of force efficiency, as did Chief Superintendent John Pollock last Friday.
His outburst stuck in the craw of every right-thinking Scot.
No one should be under any illusion as to what the future of the band is.
Morale is so low that I doubt they will exist next year and a 123-year tradition, a proud history of 22 World Pipe Band Championship titles and the affection of an entire community will be gone.
Can you imagine the Royal Marines telling their musicians they weren’t needed any more? To say it costs hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep the band going is nonsense. They receive £29,500 per year from the force.
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