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During an interview on Landsburn’s local radio station, 3LB, the State Minister for the Arts, the Honourable Cyril Battersby, defended “the withdrawal of Government funding for the Savoy”, arguing that “the money simply isn’t there to go on pouring funds into the Savoy.” Battersby attempts to portray himself as a man of the people, bemoaning the fact that he does not “spend enough time at the grass roots level” due to the “pressures of government business”. These claims may evoke a sympathetic response from the listening audience, especially when coupled with his appeals to family values: “Do you know that I haven’t spent any time with my family since Parliament re-opened in July?” Battersby’s focus on economic rationalism certainly attempts to hit the hip pocket nerve of the listeners.
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