Hang the Plumber
by hakmao, 29 November 2007
Ever the pinup boy for fascist lads of confused sexuality, Morrissey’s remarks, as reported this morning, neither shocked nor suprised me:
Morrissey has made an unexpected–and to some of his fans a thoroughly unwelcome–contribution to Britain’s loaded immigration debate. The musician has delivered a swingeing attack on what he perceives to be Britain’s encroaching multiculturalism and the loss of national identity.”England is a memory now,” he says, in an interview with the NME published yesterday. “The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.”
He goes on: “Although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. So the price is enormous. Travel to England and you have no idea where you are. It matters because the British identity is very attractive. I grew up into it and I find it very quaint and amusing. Other countries have held on to their basic identity, yet it seems to me that England was thrown away.”
A nice bit of ‘I’m-not-buttery’ there.
Morrissey now lives in the land of Mussolini. He once wrote:
Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
I will leave our resident rap historian to provide an analysis.
Thursday 29 November 2007 at 10:00
From the article:
“Travel to England and you have no idea where you are.”
This is untrue. I’ve been to England. They have street names down there and everything.
Thursday 29 November 2007 at 17:43
Plus there’s the tube map.
Thursday 29 November 2007 at 17:57
A friend’s sister, visiting Australia from England, asked ‘where are all the normal people?’ She expected Sydney to be like Neighbours or Home and Away. Most Sydneysiders are pleased that it’s not.
Thursday 29 November 2007 at 21:43
http://www.vinmag.com/online/gbu0-display/melody%20maker.html
Something of an ongoing hissy fit.
1992 also saw the NME have a very public dispute with its former hero Morrissey due to allegations of him using racist lyrics and imagery. This erupted after a concert at Finsbury Park where Morrissey was seen to drape himself in a Union Jack. The article which followed in the next edition of NME[1]soured Morrissey’s relationship with the paper and this led to Morrissey not speaking to the paper again for over a decade. When Morrissey did eventually speak to the NME in 2003 he made it clear that he was content with speaking to the paper again as the three writers concerned had long since left..
Thursday 29 November 2007 at 21:47
Something of an ongoing hissy fit.
http://www.vinmag.com/online/gbu0-display/melody%20maker.html
1992 also saw the NME have a very public dispute with its former hero Morrissey due to allegations of him using racist lyrics and imagery. This erupted after a concert at Finsbury Park where Morrissey was seen to drape himself in a Union Jack. The article which followed in the next edition of NME[1]soured Morrissey’s relationship with the paper and this led to Morrissey not speaking to the paper again for over a decade. When Morrissey did eventually speak to the NME in 2003 he made it clear that he was content with speaking to the paper again as the three writers concerned had long since left..