He felt here that "British people have had enough of the 1980's under Margaret Thatcher's leadership," and hoped that the direction of marketing, the manipulation of designers and the intrusion of television screens would be confined to the Chinese gallery and "not pollute the rest of the museum."
而在這裡，他卻揮不去「英國人已經受夠了的八○年代佘契爾主義的陰影」。他希望市場導向、洗腦式的整體設計、影視機器，只存在佔地不多的中國館，「別污染了其它地方」。