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.

I listened to him years ago at the conclusion to a protest March and he couldn’t sing for toffee. I mean he was seriously off key. I’ve made a point of avoiding hearing him ever since. Odious misogynist and anti semite 😡

The responses on Twitter are spot on. Bragg is a fool's fool. If you need to rely on Putin, to smear a woman, you might want to delete your account.

There used to be a time when you could meet bands at HMV, Oxford Street and get the latest album signed by them.

I could leave school at 3:15 and be in Central London by 4. I met many bands this way with one of my school friends. This was mid 80s and I was an incredibly young looking school girl in uniform.

The only people who made me feel uncomfortable and laughed at me were BB and his entourage. I’d seen him at loads of GLC festivals.

I queued up, got him to sign a Talking to a taxman poster, he or one of his crew made a comment and I remember thinking ‘what an idiot’.

It was n’t a very sexual comment, more a silly, embarrassed one but, as i say, I had seen lots of bands this way and the rest had always been respectful. (Echo and the Bunnymen/The Cure/The Smiths/Captain Sensible and The Damned!!! )

I support the Palestinians and so do loads of Jewish people. What does Bragg think the Jewish community should apologise for? He seems confused .

[quote ScreamingMeMe]Someone posted a link to this excellent blog about modern leftist politics.

robfrancis.substack.com/p/the-consumerist-left?s=r[/quote]
To paraphrase Germaine Greer "It's just as well that women don't know how much the modern left hate them."

@tabbycatstripy

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.

I think that was Rufus Hound.

[quote ScreamingMeMe]Someone posted a link to this excellent blog about modern leftist politics.

robfrancis.substack.com/p/the-consumerist-left?s=r[/quote]
Thanks for the link. I've just read this and agree with much of it.

But Ill-served are we by our current crop of left-wing public intellectuals.
I'm honestly not sure that I would grace LOJ with the term 'intellectual'.

Echo and the Bunnymen/The Cure

If either of these bands started spouting this crap, I'd be seriously upset. But I was never a fan of Bragg, despite loving indie, rock and folk. I'm sorry to anyone who was, it's awful when idols fall.

I think that was Rufus Hound.

It was. He, at least, has never really hidden what an arsehole he is.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feminism/4401702-Rufus-Hound-on-Twitter

@ScreamingMeMe

Just to be clear, they didn’t - it was just Bragg and his crew who were winking at one another, nudging each other, asking us about our school.

We were young and I was a fairly young minded 13 yr old but we weren’t stupid and had a very strong sense at the time that it was inappropriate. But I remember leaving and thinking what a bunch of idiots rather than anything else.

I had been to a lot of gigs even by then, was a regular at Brixton academy, used to be outside Capitol House for Radio 1 interviews but I do remember there being lots of fans there with albums, books, posters, etc. It was such a thing in the 80s.

And in those days I’m pretty sure B Bragg used to just turn up at some of those old GLC festivals at Jubilee Gardens and take the stage, whether he was invited or not!

He was always a twat. And one of the worst singers I've ever heard in my life. Why he thinks he still is, or ever was, worth listening to is a mystery.

He wil wear your derision as a badge of honour. Don't give him the satisfaction of wasting a single second on him.

Can’t link, but a quick Google should show you the house he has just sold. I was in Dorset and was admiring this cliff top residence, and a passerby said, “You know who lives there, don’t you - Billy Bragg!” Well, I don’t expect him to live in a dustbin but clearly urban grit is not for him. What a hypocrite.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7742301/Socialist-singer-Billy-Bragg-make-two-million-sale-seaside-mansion.html

Sold to a banker who works for Goldman Sachs. What a surprise to find he's a fucking hypocrite