Morrissey/NME discussion on Question Time (BBC1 show) - video
posted by davidt on Friday November 30 2007, @11:00AM

2-J writes:
As first mentioned on the Moz-solo forum here, the NME debacle and the wider questions Morrissey's comments raised about immigration into the UK was one of the issues discussed in the 29th November edition of the BBC1 show Question Time in the UK. As Maurice comments in the thread on the forum, "For the non-Brits among you 'Question Time' is the leading political discussion show in the UK... it's a political institution." (more information about the show can be found on wikipedia here). On the show, the issue was raised by a member of the audience who asked (as reported by Jukebox Jury in the thread) 'Morrissey has questioned the effect immigration has had on England's identity. Discuss'. Morrissey's comments and the wider issues were then discussed by the panel which included members of the UK parliament. The video on youtube starts from just after the question was raised, and goes on to the end of the show.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQB-X_AZFgs

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taxexile also writes:
Morrissey's recent comments in NME interviews are discussed in a question to the panel in BBC1's Question Time (Broadcast Thursdays on BBC1, at 10.30ish).

The question quoted Morrissey and asked if Britain was losing it's identity. I love this country :). It's right at the end, so skip to the last 5 minutes of it on the BBC Online repeat (or on Virgin Media if they have it on-demand).

Watch here (see show broadcast on Thursday 29th November 2007 at 10.35pm GMT/UTC)

 
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WOW- you can't buy this kind of publicity (Score:0)
Maybe Mozza isn't as upset as all that, and this was some kind of publicity coup. It's certainly got people talking about him, and at the same time as he's announcing his new record deal, upcoming album & tour. Hmmm...
Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @11:05AM (#286253)
Having a mass-debate over morrissey (Score:0)
lol
Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @12:08PM (#286262)
    The English are sick to death... (Score:1)
    ...of Labour and Tories... but not of Morrissey.

    Imagine!
    goinghome * -- Friday November 30 2007, @12:24PM (#286266)
    (User #12673 Info)
      omfg (Score:0)
      Did I just hear someone use the word "racialist"?
      WTF is this ? the 1970's?
      Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @12:28PM (#286269)
      • Re:omfg by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 30 2007, @12:43PM
        • Re:omfg by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday December 01 2007, @04:42AM
          • Re:omfg by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday December 01 2007, @09:17AM
          Is Morrissey A Household Name in England? (Score:1)
          from this clip, it practically seems that way. just curious, because it's certainly not that way in the US, even given his huge popularity here.
          carlos -- Friday November 30 2007, @12:29PM (#286270)
          (User #1308 Info | http://carlossebastian.etsy.com/ )
          "This world may lack style, I know..."
          Wrong! (Score:0)
          It's so easy to be middle class and comfortable. This discussion was ABSOLUTE rubbish. It makes me Sick.
          Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @01:01PM (#286281)
            One-sided discussion (Score:0)
            The girl who speaks at 1:32-41 has it exactly backwards. A 'multicultural' society is multicultural precisely because it has no identity. A multicultural society is one in which there is a multitude of identities, not one single identity everyone is expected to pledge their loyalty to.

            Also, why was only one perspective on multiculturalism and immigration heard throughout the discussion? The panelists all agreed that multiculturalism is great and that the (unprecedented) waves of immigrants we take in each year is not cause for alarm. It would have been nice to hear just one dissenting voice amongst such stulifying PC orthodoxy.
            Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @02:58PM (#286304)
              people need to get over it.... (Score:0)
              This debate is so stupid. Morrissey gave an opinion about a problem and once again he is called racist. This is so stupid. We have the same problem in America.
              Anonymous -- Friday November 30 2007, @03:16PM (#286307)
              Two key associations... (Score:1)
              1)The circle of Salomes: bring me the head of Moz the Baptist!

              2) Much Ado About Moz (aka Nothing)!

              Well, maybe a third one: these people's allegation of England as first-rate immigrant welcoming seems just a little bit phoney...because
              who, besides Morrissey still remembers that Brazilian guy that was shot by the British police because he panicked and ran away? Apparently no one in the Salome circle...
                   
              Mrs. Woolf -- Friday November 30 2007, @05:40PM (#286328)
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              after all the reading past days (Score:1)
              I just wonder if the NME wanted to stir sthing up
              so that Morrissey new record deal wouldn have
              gone through

              I know it's simple thinking, but so is the eNeMEy
              Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Friday November 30 2007, @11:39PM (#286387)
              (User #220 Info)
              and the hills are alive with celibate cries
                Platitudes and Bollocks (Score:0)
                These people spout politically correct platitudes. They don't know what it's like to be a white working class person in England who has to live with the reality of immigration.

                The only people who benefit from immigration are the wealthy who can get cheap labour and cut wage bills. A white working class person loses their rights because a non-unionized immigrant will do the same job for minimum wage.

                England is fucked because of immigration - the immigrants and white working class live in overcrowded squalor in the inner city while the rich who profit from their labour spend their time abroad or in their country houses.

                I would emigrate to Spain or Italy tomorrow if I had the money. This country is a shithole and Morrissey is right.
                Anonymous -- Sunday December 02 2007, @11:58AM (#286654)


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