Putin's useful idiot Billy Bragg's take on JKR / GCs

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twitter.com/billybragg/status/1507675050585071618

The tired old look who's amplifying your signal trope from misogynist B Bragg.

He may well be an idiot; I'm not sure he's all that useful.

Billy Bragg is an absolute disgrace of a man.

Once the backlash hits (it's already hitting) his career won't be able to be resurrected. I wonder if he in his arrogance realises this?

Another man scolding women.

You can take that guitar and shove it where the sun don’t shine, mate.

Billy Bragg, cheerleader for American Big Pharma farming children's bodies for profit and ensuring they are medical patients for life in a country with no NHS and where the medical malpractice statute of limitations is around 1 to 3 years - not one I had on my predictions list, but there you go.

Getting hammered on Twitter though.

oh man. that led me down a twitter rabbit hole to this from 2018

Billy Bragg: The Jewish community has work to do so Labour trusts it again

In a way it's nice to know it's not just women he hates

This is gutting to read. I always loved Billy Bragg, we have a framed poster of the lyrics to Between The Wars hanging in the house... but he's drunk the KoolAid, hasn't he?

He's made his own homebrew and it's gone very wrong, I'd say.

Someone posted a link to this excellent blog about modern leftist politics.

robfrancis.substack.com/p/the-consumerist-left?s=r

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

oh man. that led me down a twitter rabbit hole to this from 2018

Billy Bragg: The Jewish community has work to do so Labour trusts it again

In a way it's nice to know it's not just women he hates

What a scumbag. The mask is well and truly off.

@PonyPatter44

This is gutting to read. I always loved Billy Bragg, we have a framed poster of the lyrics to Between The Wars hanging in the house... but he's drunk the KoolAid, hasn't he?

Me too. He was huge in my life from teenage years Red Wedge etc. i felt so let down by him when his views emerged a couple of years ago. Cannot countenance his music or his socials now.

Never been a fan of his music, the little that I heard always seemed a bit.....whiney. I always appreciated him for his politics though. I didn't know about that Jewish post, that's appalling. The whole MRA left me very disappointed too.

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

oh man. that led me down a twitter rabbit hole to this from 2018

Billy Bragg: The Jewish community has work to do so Labour trusts it again

In a way it's nice to know it's not just women he hates

Is hate an energy that demands an outlet, I wonder, and now a section of the 'Left' is no longer allowed to publicly direct it in one direction, it has had to find a new one?

Another Bragg- adjacent blue ticker spent his Oxford years making hundreds of edits to Wikipedia pages on Israel, but that info has now been deleted on his own Wikipedia page, I notice.

Was it Bragg who responded to that list of 'sex acts' that included choking and defecation in a woman's mouth and said they were all 'just sex acts'?

I might be wrong.

@LittleWhingingWoman

Billy Bragg is an absolute disgrace of a man.

Once the backlash hits (it's already hitting) his career won't be able to be resurrected. I wonder if he in his arrogance realises this?

career? he hasnt had one of them for decades.

Billy Bragg is vile. I used to like him once, when I was young and naive. Now I can see he a misogynistic has been who spouted shite then and he still does now. He's just trying to stay relevant. Has he got another album he wants to sell or something. He can fuck off.

Found this on Glinner's site, in the comments.

I'm devastated to hear he wrote New England. Great song.

64-year old Dorset resident vents his achingly choleric spleen against popular, successful, generous and gracious woman.

World shrugs.

Bore off Billy
He can't sing and never could
Kirsty McColl made that song good @tabbycatstripy !!!

What an absolute embarrassment of a human being.

I used to really like Billy Bragg, but not any longer.

I used to think he was right-on because he was thoughtful, but now I think he just does whatever looks cool at the time.

Between the Wars is the one song that could be absolutely nailed down, relied upon, every bloody time to make me cry, each time from first anguished hearing until now. Well, I say now, but I can't listen to that sublime lament, or anything by Bragg anymore. Frankly I have no idea how the the person who wrote that could even be the same narcissistic arsehole spewing this bile, at women, at jews, at whoever is bete noire of the month at Labour HQ.

Odious man.

It's always good to have a reason to post the awesome Nehanda's response to Billy Bragg - this is the version that I think of now