78. Question Time: Nigel Farage, proportional representation, and mandatory ID cards
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Restless Politics Question Time with me, Anastakambal, |
| 0:12.8 | and with me, Rory Sylett. |
| 0:14.4 | Now Rory, I know some people think I bang on about your old school too much, but I think |
| 0:20.2 | given that it was the second most raised subject amongst listeners this week, and |
| 0:26.8 | no third, actually, World Cup and Brexit were one and two, and third was Eaton. |
| 0:33.0 | Let me just give you a flavour of some of them, Lorna, this is for you, Rory. |
| 0:36.5 | As a former Etonian, what are your thoughts on the behaviour of those people who verbally |
| 0:40.0 | abuse visiting students? |
| 0:41.8 | Is that type of behaviour commonplace? |
| 0:44.2 | John Sheeran, given the behaviour of Eaton students this week and that my Vox Pop within |
| 0:48.9 | an admittedly small demographic of a village pub were not in the least surprised by it. |
| 0:53.6 | I was wondering if that behaviour gels with Rory's experience of the institution. |
| 0:57.8 | Simon Walker and Rory as a fellow boarding school survivor, do you think the British boarding |
| 1:01.8 | system has overall done more harm or good when it's contribution to our nation's stories |
| 1:07.3 | considered? |
| 1:08.3 | And there were lots of questions about whether Eaton should have invited Nigel Farage. |
| 1:11.7 | I don't have a problem with that at all. |
| 1:13.8 | Nigel Farage is a significant political figure, whether we like that or not, and I think |
| 1:17.6 | it's right that students should hear from him. |
| 1:20.6 | But Rory, they booed and abused state students who were invited to the event. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, it was very, I mean, it seems to be very sad. |
| 1:31.4 | Everything I've read about it is very disappointing. |
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