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"The audiences for many of our greatest cultural events - I'm thinking in particular of the Proms - is still a long way from demonstrating that people from different backgrounds feel at ease in being part of this."
Apparently Margaret Hodge feels the Proms should engender new common values of Britishness. Ungrammaticly.
I'm trying to remember the racial demographic of the late Proms I went to - I don't recall it being any different from any other theatre production or classical concert I've been to. That felt like a range of people but I suppose we were, to borrow a phrase, hideously white. But probably not representative of the racial mix of London.
So?
The Snoop Dogg prom. Wall to wall Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Beethoven can stay.
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I seem to recall a set of questions that included things like how to address the second cousin of a marquis - yanno, things the average John Smith probably couldn't answer.
Apparently Hodge wrote in her blog last year about how well proms brought people together of different parts of society. Did she really sit in the audience and think, "MY, how diverse the demographics are."?
Someone doesn't get it, and I hope it's her rather than me.