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David Cameron lampooned in The Guardian for alleged Smiths appreciation

posted by davidt on Tuesday March 18 2008, @12:00PM
Aziza writes:
Article in today's Guardian accusing Conservative leader David Cameron of hypocrisy in his apparent admiration for The Smiths and The Jam. Lists reasons why Morrissey is fundamentally opposed to everything Cameron stands for (other than the immigration issue, chortle); discusses his failed attempt to get photographed outside the Salford Lads' Club and concludes that Tories basically aren't allowed good taste in music. See link below:

Hands Off Our Music! - guardian.co.uk
Bands such as the Jam and the Smiths were at the forefront of the resistance to Thatcherism in the 1980s. Twenty years later, Tory leader David Cameron lists them as among his favourite acts. Is nothing sacred, asks John Harris

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  • All kinds of people whose politics I find abhorrent say they enjoy Mozzer's music, so I can't get too worked up about a Tory twunt saying he likes Moz. But I would like to hear what Moz thinks of Cameron.

    I've said this before, but I wish Cameron had posed in front of the SLC...with a hoodie in the background grabbing his junk and pretending to aim a gun at Cameron's head.

    http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42605000/jpg /_42605175_cameronyouth203300_getty.jpg [bbc.co.uk]
    Mel Torment -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @12:20PM (#298607)
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    • Re:Posing by boredhousewife (Score:1) Wednesday March 19 2008, @10:31AM
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  • Typical shallow British journalism.
    Nick The Name -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @01:50PM (#298612)
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  • What about Morrissey fans who aren't vegetarians (the vast majority)?

    Are they not allowed to listen to Morrissey?

    Music is wonderful, but it makes a shitty religions.
    Nick The Name -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @01:54PM (#298613)
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  • i love mozzer AND george W bush

    is it too late to change election laws to let him run again?
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @02:07PM (#298616)
    • Re:well... by marred (Score:1) Tuesday March 18 2008, @04:39PM
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  • This article might carry more weight if it had not been written by Harris, an insidious twat so far up his own arse that his ugly mug pokes out of his crap spouting orifice. Every time I see his smug mug on Late Review I want to smash it into pulp with a rusty sledgehammer.

    This is such old ground that it's tedious. I couldn't care less if Robert Mugabe was a paid up Morrissey fan club member.

    As has been shown on here many, many times, you don't have to share the artist's views to like their music. Cameron has as much right to appreciate Morrissey as any carnivore does.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @04:01PM (#298623)
    • Re:harris by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday March 18 2008, @04:37PM
  • I like Gary Glitter.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @04:11PM (#298625)
  • What's already become known as the race speech given by a politician Morrissey endorses, Barak Obama, today is likely to be remembered which hopefully he will have the opportunity to carry forward -

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-rac e-speech-read-t_n_92077.html
    goinghome -- Tuesday March 18 2008, @04:16PM (#298626)
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  • ....but not in a good way.

    I couldnt read ALL of it in whole.

    What a messed up journalist he is.
    So i cant like the Smiths OR Paul Weller OR Billy Bragg because i dont vote Labour,
    is that the reverse of his arguement. ....And all Labour voters cant like any artists that are not
    protest singers, red, politically left wing blah blah blah...

    I cant believe they printed it. None of it makes sense.

    Cameron whatever his background can like any music.

    I loved the Redskins but didnt rate Arthur Scargill.
    Work that one out.

    Its all about the music.

    Im sure Morrissey wouldnt want anyone from the Tories or Labour connected or tied to the Lads Club as its well documented he cant stand the lying in all parties in the english political system. Did the people carrying banners really have nothing to do?

    Labour (see Budget) are making poor people poorer and rich, richer as the Tories did in the eighties, Im voting for the Real Ale party.

    I gotta go and get a pint .........

    inlovewiththepast -- Wednesday March 19 2008, @06:40AM (#298656)
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    truth rest your head there is more than a life at stake here..she may well sell sanctuary but she'll also sell your soul
  • Some poeple need a lot of help to come out of the closet, just ask Michael Stipe!

    --URBAN
    Anonymous -- Wednesday March 19 2008, @11:54AM (#298669)
  • Typical shallow British politician
    Stanley Ogden -- Wednesday March 19 2008, @11:33PM (#298694)
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  • Didn't Weller say he voted Conservative when the Jam first started. And he hated Red Wedge after initially getting involved. This article is typical self righteous Gaurdian nonsense.
    Anonymous -- Thursday March 20 2008, @06:09AM (#298697)
  • fat, balding motherlicker!
    Anonymous -- Thursday March 20 2008, @10:42AM (#298703)
  • I wasn't alive during the Thatcher years but I have heard from older people that she wasn't the best prime minister ever to put it mildly.
    But have the guardian ever noticed that the Conservative Party are very different now from then?
    Cameron isn't Thatcher,his policies are more centerist if anything.
    The Smiths and other bands aren't anyones music.
    Then again,that's the type of idiotic crap I've come to expect from the Guardian.
    Anonymous -- Friday March 21 2008, @04:21AM (#298716)

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