But they'd badly miss the money we spend while we are down there. If the council nsists on cutting the modest enough subsidy it has given, it'll be a bad mistake.

One thing I value a lot about the festival, which you don't get elsewhere in the same way, is the international dance and music teams. It puts us in a wider context, and I think that is valuable.

Very likely something will continue even if the full festival were to end. But I can't see that aspect of it, and we'll be a lot poorer without it.