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A salutory lesson - it takes a £25 million cut to get the UKFC to engage fully with its core business of film development and production. Some long fought ideas here but with the current crop I can't see this leopard changing its spots.

Who on earth felt it fair to have film investment returns syphoned off into the flabby administrative hierarchy rather than at least being reinvested back into the funds to reward the hard working and supremely creative producers who made that money for them - or better still rewarding the creatives who were offered such a poor deal on the investment in the first place.

Such sweet concern about second time film makers now when their endeavours were so poorly recognised by the inflated egos (and salaries) of the heads of the council.

It is time to end the top-down control of the grey bureaucrats right across film and enfranchise the richly coloured, irredeemably optimistic (and dogged) creatives who actually produce film and generate the very substantial income our industry generates for the UK.