Morrissey: Ye-Ouch. Maggie Take a Bow.

[kpete]

With Margaret Thatcher's passing today, former Smith's singer and songwriter Morrissey released a brutal assessment of the Prime Minister's leadership and accomplishments:

"Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others."

"Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the Ivory Trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own Cabinet booted her out." ...

"Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity."

Ye-Ouch. Maggie Take a Bow.


http://www.examiner.com/article/morrissey-attacks-margaret-thatcher
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/09/1200277/-Thatcher-according-to-British-Pop

[dipsydoodle]

1. Morrissey is on his usual quest

for another 15 minutes of fame.

[Javaman]

3. yet he was correct in his assessment. nt

[FreeState]

6. I know, how dare a famous Brit share his opinion

on the passing of an evil Brit. /sarcasm

[backscatter712]

7. I'll give him another 15 minutes!

Good for Morrissey!

[Prophet 451]

8. But in this, he was entirely correct. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

9. Learning how to sing might be better use of his time.

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[leftyohiolib]

2. that's the maggie i remember - i wonder if roger waters has made any statement about her passing

[Nye Bevan]

4. He also said that President Obama is "useless".

The former lead singer of The Smiths told the site, “It’s only my personal view, but I think the age of the president or the prime minister is dead. People everywhere have lost faith in politics, and rightly so. Something different needs to happen.”

“I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he’s proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard. Time and time again we see the same scenario whereby political figures only see the public as electorate, and once anyone is elected they appear to hate the people. British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it’s rarely funny,” he added.

Morrissey also told JUICE he believes “all world leaders are dictatorships, and from what we’ve seen in the Middle East, they will all not hesitate to turn the tanks onto their own people should anyone question their morality. It’s fascinating.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/06/morrissey-obama-is-useless-125542.html

[redStateBlueHeart]

10. Meh, Morrissey hates EVERYONE

Probably his fans included. Think he's gotten over his own self-loathing a bit. So I don't really take anything he says to seriously...still one of my favorite performers though.

[Nye Bevan]

11. I liked "This Charming Man" and "Reel Around the Fountain"

Started to go off him when "Meat is Murder" came out.

[redStateBlueHeart]

12. I think everything he did with The Smiths is solid

Really liked his early solo work too. Grown a bit apathetic about his recent stuff.

[Arugula Latte]

5. That sounds like a Smiths song: "Terror Without An Atom of Humanity"

You go, Moz.