Five more years of the Conservatives will reduce the arts to a national joke

National Gallery strikes are only the start: another term of ruthless pressure from Cameron and co would demolish Britain’s cultural sector. Is that what we want?

Labour and the SNP would “tear our nation apart”, warns former Conservative prime minister John Major in the last hours of the 2015 General Election campaign. It’s typical of Tory rhetoric about the “chaos” an Ed Miliband victory might bring.

But the chaos is already here, in microcosm. There is a small part of Britain that has turned into a reenactment of the 1970s, with nothing working and people treated like dirt.

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