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Twelve culture secretaries in 13 years: what does that say about the Tories’ attitude to the arts?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Worth pointing out in the context of this article that the creative industry is a huge part of the UK economy. It contributes some £100bn per year in GDP, and some £55bn in exports (compare with roughly £90bn exports for all manufactured machinery combined).
It's an enormously important industry, and it's treated as a political crèche for inexperienced ministers...
That’s it, somewhere to prepare for ‘bigger and better’ things. Which also says they are not taking the culture secretary role seriously. Some might say there is evidence they are not taking many (any?) ministerial roles with the seriousness those roles deserve.
Yeah we've had 15 housing ministers since 2010. There's just no long term thinking in government and due to the nature of our political system, no motivation to start.