Politics of non-US celebrities and artists.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

There never are any lists of Canadian, British, Irish or Australasian celebrities. Maybe that reflects on our North American obsession with celebrity, but as I'm as shallow as the next guy, I thought I'd try to put together a list of famous non-US citizens and their political views. Help me out. I'll start with Britain.

Ian McKellen - Old school leftie.
Robert Carlyle - Seriously socialist
Radiohead - Leftists to a man.
Elvis Costello - Very much on the left.
The Proclaimers - Hard core socialists.
Paul McCartney - Claims to be a socialist (I'll give him the benefit
of the doubt)
Paul Weller (The Jam, Style Council etc) - Definitely of the left.

OK. It's early and I'm stumped for now.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Who cares?

:shrug:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. You have to work on your shallowness, there.

It doesn't matter at all, but when has that ever stopped me?

[terrya]

2. Billy Bragg...seriously socialist.

At least that's my take on his politics.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. Very much so.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Nah, he's being sarcastic.

SERIOUS Thatcherite, that man.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Aha! He's the left's own Ann Coulter!

Deep-cover Art Irony!

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Yes.

He and Maggie had a good chuckle over tea when he played "There Is Power in a Union" for her. Fuckin' Tory. :grr:

Plus, you know his "Barking, Essex" accent is TOO outrageous to be real.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. He went to Public School, you know.

Public meaning Private, of course. Oh, those wacky Brits.

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. He also drove a tank in the army.

"Drove a tank" meaning "played polo with the Pince of Wales."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. He also bought his way out of the army.

Doesn't that sound oddly familiar?

[tigereye]

21. oh you are disillusioning me now

say it ain't, so. You mean he's a trustasocialistpunk? ;)

[tigereye]

20. he did?

he sure doesn't sound like he did. How's that for a bit of uninformed American comment on Brit class bias and accents?

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Nick Cave...

Australian by birth, British by residence (lives in Sussex)...said in an interview in the Times a few weeks ago "Things are utterly fucked...the George Bush brigade is legion in the Biblical sense of the word." Which kind of gives one an idea of where he stands on the issue, I think...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Good to hear.

Not that I'm surprised in the least, of course.

[dolo amber]

13. Chris Morris....?

People's Front of Judea. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. Morris despises all forms of human interaction.

[dolo amber]

15. Unless Iain Duncan Smith is involved

Then he goes positively gooey...:loveya:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. He's Michael Portillo's boyfriend.

Lovely.

[dolo amber]

17. You do know

he'd slap your insolent face for inferring there was any physical resemblance there, right? :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Ah. But there is.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. .

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