Charlotte MacDonald

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More or Less · Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats · 16 May 2014 podcast

But come on, these results can't really be seen as an insight into how liberal a country is, as we need to bear in mind that the people who watch Eurovision are not always representative of that country. voice-verified

OK, fair point. voice-verified

What interests me most about all of this is that changing the voting system so that it was just the public vote wouldn't have had much of an effect on the overall result. voice-verified

Austria would still have won by a huge margin. voice-verified

And France? voice-verified

Well... voice-verified

They would still have come last. voice-verified

The UK did better in the official results. voice-verified

We came 17th in the current system, but would have come lower if only the public vote had counted. voice-verified

So we shouldn't start a campaign to change the voting system for Eurovision just yet. voice-verified

Yes, because the most frequently quoted number is attributed to the French embassy in London, and that's around 300,000. voice-verified

Quite. voice-verified

I went to the UK's top authority on population matters, the Office for National Statistics, and their figures are very different. voice-verified

Depending on which of their sources you look at, they estimate there are between 66,000 and 86,000 French nationals in London. voice-verified

It is a nice office, though. voice-verified

I went along to the French embassy in Knightsbridge to meet press spokesperson Xavier Chattel. voice-verified

Very smart, very polite. voice-verified

I was only interested in him for his numbers, Tim. voice-verified

He talked me through them. voice-verified

And when you say London, what do you mean? voice-verified

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