Since then, and amongst others, famous Hollywood filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg, have shown their support to the UK Film Council, and in the case of Eastwood, going as far as to write directly to the chancellor, George Osborne, in an attempt to get this decision reconsidered by his department.

As far as we know, not only abolition plans haven't changed but now the coalition government has accused the UK Film Council of lobbying in the hope of saving itself; clearly a horrible and unexpected act from their part.

How can these people have the face of trying to save their jobs? Who do they think they are, factory workers? After all, and since its creation in 2000, they have only funded over 900 films, which have entertained only around 200 million people and surely Beckham knows better than anybody else about the little noise that most of these films have made.

In fact, not only the UK Film Council workers have made a terrible job in what it was supposedly a boost to British arts and filmmaking, but the institution itself will be recorded in the Annals of History of Economics as the disastrous body that only managed to generate a profit of £5 for every £1 of Lottery money it invested.

This, if we are calculating right, means that the entity was actually profitable, but what do we know about economics...almost as much as we know of ethics really.

Mind you, if the salaries of the execs from the UK Film council were too high (or so it has been said in the media) they should have given them a good trimming. But the abolition of an entire institution that is actually beneficial to the country and never destructive or even contaminant seems a bit...what is the word...excessive?

Maybe not. In any case we are offering you the link to sign the petition against the UK FILM Council abolition below.