That stuff he said about Morrissey was hilarious! I've never been into Bragg's music but he's a genuine bloke.
JUST DON'T VOTE.
You're an idiot.
You read the Guardian don't you.
The basic principle of English law is that you go to prison as your punishment, not to be further punished when your liberty is lost.
The amount of research to support the rehabilitative properties of music for prisoners, patients, children et al is overwhelming and if any work by Mr. Bragg or Marr has aided in helping someone they deserve a bit of credit even if their other actions or beliefs cause so much chagrin to critics. http://www.jailguitardoors.org.uk
FWD
Why, they call you an idiot too?
I'm sorry I don't speak oaf, do you have a point?
You're an idiot.
Morrissey [compared to Billy Bragg] has always been so much more astute with his social and political observations.
Well voting gets you Labour or Conservative or if you're in the US Republican or Democrat. If you vote for any of those then it is you that's the idiot.
And another idiot. Thread seems to be full of them.
Oh shut up you utter wanker.
I suppose it's best you folks don't vote. Might injure yourselves with the pen.
Even if I was a voting fanatic and believed it would make a damn bit of difference it's safe to say that unless I move house then my MP will be Conservative.
If we had a different electoral system then my vote wouldn't be wasted. If we had a different electoral system there's a chance that you could vote for people that represented your views rather than voting for people who you thought were less bad than the others.
Smiler in my view is correct though, although obviously you dismissed them as an idiot. We're still waiting to see where your voting has got you.
I agree with the 'don't vote' camp. To me, it means don't vote main parties. Which as we all know, voting anything else is a throwaway. But I'm still for it in principle.
2-party system is a scam. All about the $ and maintaining the status quo. Speaking as an American, I hated Bush. But when we elected Obama, what changed? Still more bombs and more fed control. More bail-outs and massive military industrial complex spending.
I was enticed at first, when I heard health care reform. But slapping a mandate on it and maintaining the rest of the over-priced structure did nothing but make it worse for the people.
2-party system is a two-headed dragon chasing it's tail. Everybody loses except special interests.