The party which brought you Margaret (on the Guillotine) is now led by David Cameron, a man who claims that The Queen Is Dead is his favourite album.
Cameron chosen as new Tory leader - BBC News
You may have heard about David Cameron being a smiths fan already, but I was just listening to the TV while it was on BBC2 (5th december), newsnight was on, and saw David Cameron (The conservative leader candidate) talk about his music tastes. He said he was a fan of the Smiths and also briefly stated Radiohead. But was questionned about the Smiths and his favourite album was the Queen is Dead, but he "didn't like the title track
... because he likes the queen"! But he went on about The Smiths' qualities after that.
He was also questionned about "not being able to be a political leader if he liked The Smiths", and Cameron replied to "prove them wrong".
Also a lot of smiths music during that part of the programme!
The newsnight programme can be watched again on the bbc website
here.
(at the time of submitting the latest programme has not been uploaded yet)
...But after a series of intentionally ersatz enquiries – ranging from the back-catalogue of ’80s rock legends The Smiths through to techniques for giving up smoking – the reporter finally got to annoy his quarry with a question about the Christian doctrine of the atonement...
...The possible future Prime Minister also said that he preferred ‘The Fast Show’ (now defunct) to ‘Little Britain’ (a current cult comedy programme). And he indicated that his favourite Smith’s album was The Queen Is Dead, “though I don’t like the title track”.
However the limits of Mr Cameron’s devotion were shown when he failed to spot that Margaret On A Guillotine – a highly unflattering portrait of his hero, former PM Margaret Thatcher, which provoked questions in the House of Commons – is actually the last track on a Morrissey’s first post-Smiths solo album, with producer Stephen Street and guitarist Vini Reilly (of the Durutti Column).
It is not thought that this will harm his standing as an aspirant political or religious figure.
The Conservatives and their leader can die for all (Score:0)
I Don't Care (Score:1)
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THIS is the lead news story??? (Score:0)
Sir Morrissey will be a matter of time (Score:1)
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Boutros Boutros Ghalli (Score:2, Informative)
Bjorn
"Mr Cameron,
As a fellow fan of the finest pop band the world has ever seen, I'm very interested to know what your favourite smiths songs is?
Do you also ever consider whether your appreciation of fine alternative music is incompatible with being a Conservative politician? "
D Cameron
"hello Basically all the songs on 'The Queen is dead" apart from the first one. I don't think Morrissey and I would agree about a single solitary thing except perhaps that he is a wonderful lyricist. Can you be a conservative and like alternative music? why not - we believe in freedom and anyway, most of the Britpop/ cool Britannia/ Blair supporters have given him up as a bad job. !
link [guardian.co.uk]
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par for the course for politicians (Score:1)
this runs akin to '04 Dem candidate Wesley Clark saying he liked hip-hop in order to be hip with the MTV generation.
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Hooray (Score:1)
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What we want !!!! (Score:0)
Sure I'd settle for some short samples for a while, but let's just go ahead make the entire Ringleaders album available for download immediatly !!! For free of course ! Someone out there must have it ! So Come On ! Gimme it Now !
- Man of Vision
How many of us (Score:0)
Also it worrys me that a Conservative let alone the leader likes the smiths or could even understand them.
Does anyone think they stand a real chance of getting back into government??
Camerooned for all I care (Score:0)
I'm glad to say, the "snories" have shot themselves in the foot once again.
Maybe next time, they'll aim for the head.
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Remember (Score:1)
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Irish blood, English heart (Score:1)
"i've been dreaming of a time... when the English are sick to death of Labour and Tories...."
where's your blue eyed boy now Mr Cameron...?
(with apologies to e.e.cummings)
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Don't be fooled (Score:0)
His ridiculous claim to enjoy The Smiths/Morrissey was suggested to him some months ago by two of the 'researchers'. A crash course followed. Don't be fooled.
My sister has direct contact with one of those involved. The truth will out.
I find it very (Score:1)
I just hope Tony Blair's blunder with Iraq hasn't left people so disillusioned that they'll start voting for the Tories again. I also hope people remember just what a shambles this country was in when the Conservatives were finally kicked out of power by Labour. Any party that would elect Margaret Thatcher as their representative must be fundamentally misguided. Just my opinion, obviously, we're all entitled to it.
What we need is a new Labour leader, not a right-wing government.
I'll step away from the Persil tub now.
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Conservative (Score:0)
p.s.
And no, I'm not a National Front member.
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I won't vote Conservative cos I never have...... (Score:0)
As I already suspected though, with Cameron, it sounds like another spin doctoring yarn.... Is it a wolf in sheep's clothing or vice versa?
And I ain't voting for the Tories EVER. (Mind you I'll never vote for Labour as it is now) I rememeber what they did to our sceptred isle and Thatcher's belief in the individual vs society has unfortunatley continued unabated (some would say enhanced) by Blair. As it will if Cameron if ever gets in, as it will if Brown gets in.
Mind you just cos Moz says he's sick to death of Labour and Tories.... well he is right... don't let that dissuade you from taking a pertinent interest in politics. Its fascinating. Honest.
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david tseng doing the right thing re: freeyourself (Score:0)
Until freyourself learns to behave like a normal person and starts to take the expensive psychoactive medications the NHS provides for him, it is right that he is blocked form this site.
David has done the right thing by those victimised and abused by freeyourself: myself, nonesoever, broken, david tseng himself and Morrissey.
Congratulations for standing up for the more reasonable Morrissey fans against this rather disturbed person who clals himself freeyourself.
Cameron speaks (Score:0)
Introduction
"We meet in the shadow of a third consecutive election defeat.
Defeated by a government that has…
…complicated the tax system…
…dumbed down the education system…
…demoralised the health system.
…and bankrupted the pension system.
It's …
…made promises that no-one believes…
…passed powers to a European Union that nobody trusts…
…and set up Regional Assemblies that nobody wants – and nobody ever voted for.
And still we were defeated.
We were defeated by a government that won fewer votes than any in history.
But let's not blame the electoral system. Let's not take comfort in solid, but slow progress. Let's have the courage to say: they've failed, but so have we.
And let's resolve here, at this conference, when we put defeat behind us, failure behind us, to look ourselves in the eye and say: never, ever again.
Why we are Conservatives
I joined this party because I love my country. I love our character. I love our people, our history, our role in the world. This is the only party that understands and is proud of what we've been and who we are.
I joined this party because I believe in freedom. We are the only party believing that if you give people freedom and responsibility, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger.
I joined this party because I believe in aspiration. This party, the Conservative Party, is the only party that wants everybody to be a somebody, a doer not a done-for.
That's the spirit we have to recapture. I want people to feel good about being a Conservative again.
Education
Aspiration is enabled by education.
How cruelly it is disabled by Labour today.
When one fifth of children leave primary school unable to write properly.
When one million school children play truant each year.
And when the very essence of aspiration – social mobility – is going backward in this country.
There are far fewer children from state schools going to our best universities. And it's getting worse.
What have Labour done?
Created an exam system where sixteen per cent means a pass.
Where parents of children in failing schools have no redress and no way out.
And we're now a country where "failure" is called "deferred success".
The Government introduced the National Literacy strategy. It's a good idea – in fact it was Gillian Shephard's idea.
But why can't children be taught to read with synthetic phonics, a method that works?
Treating every child as if they're the same fails the child who's struggling and the child who's not.
So why can't we have streaming and setting to help all children reach their potential?
We've got to win the great debate about education in this country.
To give choice to parents. Freedom to schools. And to fight for high standards.
We must cast away the progressive theories and the all must have prizes culture that's done so much damage to so many children for so long.
And we must win the battle over education for another vital reason.
Parents with disabled children have to fight for everything.
Just imagine what it's like when the special school that gives their child the love they need, the care they need, the therapy they need, and yes, the education they need…
…when that special school is threatened with closure.
I've seen it, and it breaks my heart.
Labour's idea of compassion is to put every child in the same class in the same school - and call it equality and inclusion.
But I say that's not compassion … it's heartless, it's gutless, and it's got to stop.
That's why a Conservative government will save special schools.
Brown
Everyone knows that education, like our other public services, desperately needs radical reform.
And who's the man standing in the way? Gordon Brown, the great roadblock.
Everyone knows that our ec
Then you hear him talk and... (Score:1)
I never, ever will vote for the bloody blues brigade.
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Andy (Score:0)
I feel a bit ill at the moment I have a flu thing nothing serious.
"Make the dream real..." (Score:1)
now, what David meant of course was the party that was once led by Ms. Thatcher. no one has as yet brought Margaret on the guillotine- yet.
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Thatcher admitted to hospital (Score:0)
What`s the fuss? (Score:0)
Bandwagon, Here He Comes (Score:1)
Where did I put that cyanide capsule?
The man's leader of the party that brought us Clause 28, lest we forget....
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William.... (Score:1)
How we laughed.
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note of thanks to david tseng (Score:0)
I also want to applaud you for kindly banning freeyourself from using this site from home, as so many of us requested.
Once again, mr t shows why he is considered such a gentleman and a fine addition to the world of morrissey.
This site was an oasis in the desert of the post maladjusted years. Thank you to david for spending inordinate amounts of time keeping us upto date with Morrissey and for providing this excellent forum for us fans.
Thanks once again for barring freeyourself. The thought of him begging his public library for extra time to respond to our insults is worth every grey moment of reading his moronic and childish responses!
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Re:David Tseng is a Bully to freeyourself (Score:0, Offtopic)
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ban freeyourself's public library too (Score:0)
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freeyourself: beyond criticism (Score:0)
His picture is that of a graceful gay man in his late 40s. What's wrong with it? He looks fashionable and his own man. What more could a man want?
Freeyourself never initiates these petty squabbles as they are beneath him. He is no angel, and will respond if provoked, like a tarantula. Nobody can survive the poison of freeyourself's caustic wit.
His worldview is original and different. Is that a crime? Guilty as charged.
Now about all this homophobia...
Just because freeyourself is overweight and gay, does that give you the right to smear him with your salacious lies? Of course it doesn't.
Overweight gay men are the sexiest gay men in my book.
With his penetrating wit, astonishing originality, debonair good looks and frankly delightful aroma of perfumed - subtley perfumed - raging heterosexual manmeat, any gay man would be HONOURED to call freeyourself a partner, to love and cherish him, listen to his Smiths records, bath his mother at weekends, change his colostomy bag, laugh at his jokes and generally tell him his bum doesn't look fat in those leggins.
What a dude.
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