I asked on Facebook how to do this and I was given this solution.
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa main upstream import
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate
This will install the MATE packages and allow you to remove the abominable Unity desktop.
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