Having said this, I don't know where you have this from that you were mainly arguing with "Europeans". I remember the discussion and remember that mainly Irish were under that illusion, even though the Queen does in fact have more power than you claim she does.
Essen is also barely the insignificant city that you make it to be. It has 500,000 inhabintants, some of the country's billionaires live in the South of the city, one of the millionaires currently sitting in the jail for flights to work paid by the company, plus some of the most aggressive homeless junkies imaginable. It is in the middle sort of of the Rhein-Ruhr-which which together has about as many inhabitants as Greater London. I'd compare it to Manchester. Also in how it was transformed. Retailwise they have everything there. Think of Essen, the next time you visit Aldi or buy one of the Medion electronics products. Their Christmas market is the nicest and most enjoyable I've seen so far, and I usually don't particularly like Christmas markets.
What I do agree with however is that the people who go to these concerts either are total pricks and know exactly what he is about, which is a good thing, but unfortunatly there are STILL people who celebrate him for something he is not, totally unaware of anything except the hugs and quiff cliché. I just cannot hear that "disenfrenchised" bullshit anymore. The people who go to these concerts for the most part work in influencial positions in large companies. If you want to call the 1% disenfrenchised, well, there is certainly some truth to this, they are certainly different to the other 99%. loooool The people on here are very, very limited in their discussion ability, capacity, while representative of those who know what he is about, not entirely representative of... those who don't go to the concerts anymore.
There is something very noticable about you. Namely that you need to leave your little island more often. You are stuck in a bubble. A nationalistic one. An ugly nationalistic one. One that makes you comparable to any Nazi that ever existed. A nasty ugly person you are. As somebody else pointed out, Nazis are everywhere nowadays, and you are one of them. That your grandfather died in combat, doesn't make you any less so. It is no excuse for you being a total arsehole.
It's a shame you are too cowardly to sign in, but that's pretty normal on here these days, and I'll respond anyway. Unlike you, I am not afraid of defending my opinions.
I argued with several Scandanavians that day, and, unless I've missed the news the Republic of Ireland is very much part of Europe too. It had better be, as the UK taxpayer bailed it out to the tune of about ten billion quid not long ago, after the famous Tiger Economy of old Dublin Town fell on its arse. As far as I know we've not had it all back yet, either.
I care not a f*** about Essen, save the valid point that he is hawking his latest melody free drivel there on a Monday night, whereas earlier in his career he was selling out the Hollywood Bowl and Wembley Arena in minutes. Only in a Spinal Tap "rockumentary" could that be seen as a validation of his current career trajectory. Did Essen sell out?
I've travelled widely. Widely enough to know what is today a second rate crooner like Morrissey, who, had he fulfilled his early promise instead of throwing it away would be playing arenas, is misusing his diminishing powers to deceive the gullible (such as you) and incite violence, all from the comfort of a five star hotel room. I find that utterly nauseating, particularly as he does not have the balls to put himself in front of proper journalists.
There is a fascist associated with this forum, and that person is Morrissey. He has become a truly vile individual, who sees his role in life to lie and obfuscate in order to fill his pockets. He thinks nothing of storming off stage over the merest imagined slight, and letting down hundreds of people, many of whom would have spent considerable sums of money to see him. He hasn't done that just the once either. When he does so the apologists come on here to excuse his behaviour, because apparently this fifty-five year old grown man has the constitution of a newborn foal, and must not be criticised under any circumstances. Bollocks to that.
He is happy to pretend he has cancer, while he thinks nothing of insulting and using the deaths of terror victims in Utoya or even Holocaust victims. It is all grist to his perverted mill. If it sells tickets he's fine with it, and apparently, because you too are a moral vacuum, you are as well. That's fine.
I'm not OK with it, and I'll continue to say so.