Billy Bragg: “Morrissey has broken the hearts of a lot of people” - The Big Issue (26 June, 2019)

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Whole article as brief:

"Not one shy to express his own feelings, Bragg said: “I think he’s decided that he wants to betray everything he ever said in The Smiths and he’s broken the hearts of a lot of people.
The Smiths expressed a lot of peoples own sense of disconnect with society and helped them to find their own identity – and he’s totally trashed that. I’m heartbroken for them because I’m a big Smiths fan too. And I’m heartbroken for Johnny Marr because he’s genuine, a lovely guy, and he doesn’t deserve to have his legacy dragged through the dirt.”

In his most recent comments, Morrissey reaffirmed his support for a far-right political party and said more questionable things about race that are not worth repeating here but easy enough to find online if you really want.

Bragg added: “I have no sympathy for him, no respect for him, but I have a lot of sympathy and respect for his audience.”"


https://www.bigissue.com/latest/billy-bragg-morrissey-has-broken-the-hearts-of-a-lot-of-people/


Further to his recent Oswald comment, Mr. Bragg is cited by The Big Issue for saying more on his view of Morrissey's behaviour.
The Big Issue present things ambiguously, so when Billy actually commented is unclear (possibly end of May), but given his previous comments - I doubt he'd say anything different.

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Billy Bragg has more knowledge, integrity and “cool” in his pocket than the entire lot of you meme-raised, whingy, whining little punk-ass bitches.

Billy Bragg has been Billy Bragg since Billy Bragg was born. NEVER tried to be someone he was not. Never asked you to listen. ...only hoped you would. Never played the poor-me card. Never played the victim. Never bitched about being in the margins. Never told anyone ANYTHING but the TRUTH.

Billy Bragg has more f***ing love, wisdom and integrity in his left hand than ANY of you will EVER have in your miserable, xenophobic, pussy-ass lives.

If you’ve got a f***ing negative thing to say about Billy, you don’t know Billy.

...and you’re a reaching, weak-ass c***.

I f***ing LOVE Billy!

Saw him last year at the Shoe and he was as poignant as ever. If you don’t get it, that shit’s ALL on you, ya bunch of f***ing hick-ass rube clown’s.
And he probably has a shriveled up d ing dong. He looks f ing old.

If you all want to see your country go to shit, which it is. And waste your times make sure there isnt a shred of racism in the UK, go for it. You have no hope for a good job <foreigners took it> and I hope you dont need the NHs sooon..
 
I reckon The California Son's days in the smiths were the worst in his life, but using the smiths allowed him to move back home to Moz Angeles in 1987 to launch his current empire and be able to continually talk shit about Brittish people and other assorted foreign trash. Good on ya California Son m8 inn nnnnnn nnn nnnn nnnn nnnnnn n it.
 
If your heart is broken then maybe it’s a sign you need to harden the f*** up and stop investing emotionally in someone else’s political and social views. A person you don’t even know at that. Christ the way people carry on is pathetic. He really hasn’t said anything that bad
 
Yah but its well f***ing poncy and makes people hate people who think they come from 'Great' Britain. Great for what reason I wonder. Invasion, subjugation, attempted genocide, and general c***ish behaviour? f*** that. Anyone who says they are from Great Britain is a moronic twat.
Edit: eh, apart from the great music, comedies, and literature, which in all fairness are 'great'. But you don't need to take over half the world to achieve great moments of art
No one from Great Britain would ever introduced themselves as being from Great Britain. Nor would one introduce oneself as being from United Kingdom. Yes very poncey names and vastly outdated as well. We were once great because we defeated the nazis twice, a small point that most Europeans choose to forget and need a fingertip up the jeerbox as a little reminder.
 
And have people forgot about the Germans with their atrocities, the Romans, the Dutch, and not forgetting the spanish and how they wiped out all the Incas, and how they done it??? No folk have short memories and a lack of basic history.
 
The left won't stand up for the working class? Where are you getting that idea from? Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and other prominent left-wing figures all over the globe are fighting tooth and nail for working class rights.


The big corporations do love mass immigration because it gives them brown people to exploit and abuse. That is not the immigrants' fault, to reiterate. That is the corporations' fault. But your racism is blinding you to that fact.

The Labour party being investigated for anti-semitism? Citation needed.

Citation needed? have you been hiding under a rock?

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...s-investigation-of-labour-antisemitism-claims

And the biggest wave of mass immigration recently has been white-skinned Polish and Eastern Europeans. Or do you see exploited brown skinned people everywhere in your racist world view? I'm not blaming immigrants. But I don't support mass immigration because it's clearly what the big corporations want. We seem to agree on that?
 
Billy Bragg has more knowledge, integrity and “cool” in his pocket than the entire lot of you meme-raised, whingy, whining little punk-ass bitches.

Billy Bragg has been Billy Bragg since Billy Bragg was born. NEVER tried to be someone he was not. Never asked you to listen. ...only hoped you would. Never played the poor-me card. Never played the victim. Never bitched about being in the margins. Never told anyone ANYTHING but the TRUTH.

Billy Bragg has more f***ing love, wisdom and integrity in his left hand than ANY of you will EVER have in your miserable, xenophobic, pussy-ass lives.

If you’ve got a f***ing negative thing to say about Billy, you don’t know Billy.

...and you’re a reaching, weak-ass c***.

I f***ing LOVE Billy!

Saw him last year at the Shoe and he was as poignant as ever. If you don’t get it, that shit’s ALL on you, ya bunch of f***ing hick-ass rube clown’s.
Also,bit only does Billy Brag not miss an opportunity to get in the media to Diss Morrissey and always did, but his fans are extremely foul mouthed.
 
It’s literally the name of the island. Sorry you didn’t know that.
do you even live in the uk,you will never hear or see a tv channel or newspaper say Great Britain anymore and hasn't done for years.last time Great Britain was used was for the Olympics in 2012.
 
do you even live in the uk,you will never hear or see a tv channel or newspaper say Great Britain anymore and hasn't done for years.last time Great Britain was used was for the Olympics in 2012.
And in 2016. And it doesn’t matter if no one says it, that’s what it’s called. You said it wasn’t called Great Britain anymore. It is. Do some reading.
 
No one from Great Britain would ever introduced themselves as being from Great Britain. Nor would one introduce oneself as being from United Kingdom. Yes very poncey names and vastly outdated as well. We were once great because we defeated the nazis twice, a small point that most Europeans choose to forget and need a fingertip up the jeerbox as a little reminder.
The allies defeated the Nazis, not the British.
 
And in 2016. And it doesn’t matter if no one says it, that’s what it’s called. You said it wasn’t called Great Britain anymore. It is. Do some reading.
only books i read are nude books,some great readers letters.you will find them in a workmans hut or in a hedge surprisingly.
 
 
Who asked billy on his views on this matter any how. Talking of pop stars who can’t keep their gob shut, billy is top of the heap. Can’t stand these people who want to be as diverse as possible and then ramit down everyone’s throat and making them feel shit if they fail to submit.. unfortunately human kind is not always so kind, we need to remember this. This not a lovey dovey world there will always be ongoing problems

Billy is a) a very sensible man, b) a former friend of The Smiths, and c) a true fan. So, to me his opinions are clearly worth listening to. Maybe you should take some time (and even councelling) to discover why he makes you so angry. Anger can be addictive, by the way.
 
I ve never really been a fan. I used to have a Smiths bootleg tape bought from Chris Adams many moons ago where at the end there was Billy Bragg doing a cover of Ask badly.
 
Most indie kids of the 80's loved Bragg and bought into the whole right-on leftist thing. I always turned off when he got boring about Socialism and the Red Flag. I still cherish his love songs and things like Tank Park Salute but he says nothing to me about my life. Not anymore. Moz does, because he speaks the truth. Most of the time.
Don’t Try this at Home is, for me, one of the greatest LPs of all time; right up there with Vauxhall and Meat is Murder.
 
Billy you’re living in a North Devon bubble
.. maybe you should try commenting on your beloved anti-Semitic Labour Party instead? or does that go against our mainstream media that have you in their pockets ... leftist mainstream media ... keep paying the Bills
 

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