The Proclaimers... another reason to love them

Video I mentioned above.

This 💯

Absolutely delighted to see this from them and finally some common sense from some Lefty men

Wonder how this has gone down with Working Class Hero™️ Billy Bragg.

Thanks for sharing. It's refreshing not just seeing them express these views so openly and without fear but also being so clear about being able to disagree with someone on one issue whilst agreeing with them on another. That's something many people seem to be losing the ability to do, and not just on this issue. Agree wholeheartedly about the left losing their collective mind, and I would count myself as a lifelong socialist too.

Poor David Tennant - his leaving video when he left Doctor Who is the cast and crew singing '500 miles'' .. it's on YouTube, very entertaining. Good lads, well just sensible.

It's an interview with the Proclaimers, in which they make coherent political points, punctuated by snatches of their music. And then after an extract which goes

We talk of barbarism
Like we left it in the past
While we elect malignant scoundrels
Each one as bad as the last

Evan Davies' comment is, "Again, highly political, almost kind of comically unsubtle [tinkly laugh]."

Did he mean to be quite so insulting or is he always like this with his guests?

The answer he was given, btw: "I think that's called honesty".

Oh they are losing their shit over on BlueHair.

THAT'S IT I'M TAKING THE PROCLAIMERS OFF ALL MY PLAYLISTS!!!!1!1!1!11!!! 😡😡😡

Sure they were on there to begin with, Chlamydia-Rose.

Also in the Times now "The Proclaimers: trans rights activists are ‘truth-phobic’"
https://www.thetimes.com/article/615c811a-d4bc-4145-acab-5f8ccf41d113?shareToken=5fa00c68108b493c356ad57ee4db5a9b&ver=article

There was always a real independence to their music, not easily pigeon holes, same to their political views

Oh my goodness, I love them 😍

The Radio 4 interview just before 6pm, with Evan Davies, was very good too. The questions tiptoed around this rather than tackled it head on, but the Proclaimers were clear that they were pro independence but thought the SNP had gone off piste and shot itself in the foot. And also Evan’s asked something along the lines of ‘isn’t anti-woke rather a right wing position’ and they came straight back and said ‘we are left wing (as in redistribution of wealth) but not omnicause (they didn’t use that word, but they basically said ‘left’ had become a shorthand for a lot of things that aren’t left at all).

Love them even more. They have always been unashamedly themselves. Glasses, 'uncool' clothes and hair, playing the music that they wanted to play. And I always loved that that worked for them. How bloody fab they are.

Aw and I thought I couldn’t love them any more 😍
thanks for sharing.

Love them and I’m so glad they’ve said this.

Sunshine on Leith is one of my favourite songs and genuinely helped me to get through my divorce. There was something vastly therapeutic about sitting in the car letting myself sing/admit ‘my heart is broken’ then dusting myself and getting on with the rest of my day.

Thanks lads.

I've got 'There's' (from the album, Like Comedy) planned for my hubby's (hopefully not imminent). It ends with the lines, 'There's you walking down the street, children running round your feet, there's you, and there's me'. Absolutely beautiful, gets me every time.

I saw this article just now on FB. It wasn’t on my bingo card but I’m delighted to see it. Love The Proclaimers even more now. I’m another one who’s seen them live and it was genuinely one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to! They’re brilliant.

I guess I never really thought about the fact that the actors still profit from the films. Funny how the trans lobby doesn’t come after them for that. They get away with slating JKR while simultaneously continuing to profit from her work 🤔

I fancy ‘After you’ve gone’ for my funeral. Hopefully not for many years!

Agreed letter from America is going to be one of my funeral songs x

Love The Proclaimers for this.
And if it upsets that prick Tennant, I love them even more.

Have actually seen them live a few years ago, they were great! Going to be listening to them quite a lot more after this

I'm glad someone started this thread!

That TRA twat who is allowed to drivel all over the BBC PM programme has just tried to tell them its sort of right wing to complain about woke (wasn't sure exactly what he said) and they just him him in his place.

Fantastic!

So glad a left wing band have said this. So deeply disappointed by my old faves like Jimmy Somerville et al. Yes , Hibs have the best song now , eat yer hearts out Liverpool, Celtic whoever.
Truth- phobic is a brilliant coinage !

They're being interviewed on Radio 4 now.

Good lads! I don't like their music at all but they have risen greatly in my esteem for this. So many Scots have really swallowed the TWAW bollocks, this is really going to stick in their collective craw. Popcorn will be needed. 🍿