Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be βhorrifiedβ by voter abstention
At the Mediterrane film festival in Malta, the film-maker spoke out against UK citizens βseeing justification in not votingβ in the general election
Mike Leigh has criticised UK voters considering abstention at this yearβs general election, saying the subjects of his 2018 historical drama Peterloo would be appalled by such disengagement.
Speaking at the Mediterrane film festival in Malta, Leigh said the protesters who gathered in St Peterβs Field in Manchester to demand the reform of parliamentary representation in 1819 would be βnot only horrified but mystifiedβ about βpeople procrastinating about whether to vote and seeing justification in not voting, which is whatβs happening right nowβ.
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Β© Photograph: Tom Nicholson/REX/Shutterstock for Mediterrane Film Festival