Q&A: Could cultural activism kill the arts and do we need electoral reform?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In this Sunday Q&A, the Two Matts ponder the Tories newfound support for electoral reform, given their historical stance. They also take on the complexities of proportional representation, and the significance of party majorities. Also, are festivals cutting ties with sponsors like Bailey Gifford and Barclays due to activist pressure a problem and what impact will this have on the arts? Want your question answered? You can email 2matt@tnepublishing.com
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| 1:06.3 | straight in? Are the two mats as amused as I am by the sudden conversion of prominent Tories to electoral reform? I'd love to know, Mark T. in Branchard. Well, indeed. We are very amused. You can hear from our cackle that we are. Yeah, I mean, I think it would have to be some mighty electoral reform to save the Tory party at this state. |
| 1:27.5 | It is funny though, but because it is amusing to hear people who, for 30 years I've known, |
| 1:33.8 | have been absolutely implacably, you know, wedded to the first past the post system |
| 1:38.3 | and claim it's as English as the monarchy and, you know, all that stuff, |
| 1:42.6 | saying, well, I'm not sure this is fair really given |
| 1:45.1 | what's about to happen maybe we should have PR so well we're not going to have PR I think and but it's |
| 1:51.4 | going to be very amusing watching the kind of the flip-flopping because if the result is anything |
| 1:58.2 | like it looks like it's going to be the Tories and a lot of the other |
| 2:02.8 | parties probably will start revving out the argument for electoral reform again. So Mark, yes, |
| 2:08.0 | we are very amused. We are bloody amused. Thank you for that. Next question please. Simon Fathers |
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