“Seven organisations representing the vast majority of employers, performers, artists and technical staff are pressing Brown to address as a “matter of urgency” the precarious financial situation for the arts, which is set to lose an extra £137 million to the 2012 Games. They warn that the cuts, along with an expected poor funding settlement in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, amount to a ‘return to the stop-go approach to arts funding that proved so damaging during the nineties’.”