Billy Bragg at Forest Live

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Why is he pushing this?

Billy Fucking Bragg in my house.

Wanker.

You’re right, Billy, as you tell your audience - you will never be pretty again, never be hip again.

What you’ve forgotten to notice, as you clutch onto the trans flag in a desperation, is that you will never be relevant again either.

Oi! That is Private Billy Bragg to you. He gave up on punk rock and joined the Army in 1981. Rather bad timing as things were hotting up in Northern Ireland with the hunger strike by republican prisoners. He bought himself out after a few months. Fair enough....but you'd wonder how deep his political convictions run.

Oh aye, he is the Milkman of Human Kindness, except when it comes to actual human females of course. What a disappointing little man he turned out to be.

What an idiot. But it’s an example of how people who are convinced of their own righteousness but refuse to think, will perceive the restoration of reality-based policy as an “attack” and feel more and more righteous the more they hole up and die on that hill.

Billy would need to spend 2 minutes figuring out the logic of his stance, perhaps with the help of someone with a brain, to realise it’s homophobic and sexist and craps all over a whole bunch of right-on causes he was supposedly into 5 minutes ago. But he won’t because he’s high on how cool and heroic he is.

I wonder if he’ll transition soon and get the full set of brownie points.

'it’s homophobic and sexist and craps all over a whole bunch of right-on causes he was supposedly into 5 minutes ago. But he won’t because he’s high on how cool and heroic he is.'

Well exactly. So bloody pleased with himself. What an absolute plum he is

I don't have any "Trans siblings". I have one brother and he's very boring and not at all stunning and brave. 😂

@Grok show me an example of 'muted applause' 😂😂

Yay. I've come to really appreciate boring people and think they should be in government!

It is kind cute the way he thinks that people are really listening to him

I went to see him a few years ago when stuff about Stonewall was in the news and he went on a big rant about it.

He has been a disappointment.

I’d say there are a few whoops and claps there but overwhelmingly it’s embarrassed silence for a man who is now tying himself in knots. Cringe

Christ he’s such a berk. He was on a 40 years of TOTP programme I saw a few weeks ago banging on about how although he wasn’t a miner or from a mining family or a mining area he felt that he was in that tradition and therefore should be given their credibility when singing about socialism. It’s always been performative wankery for Billy Bragg.

He says the problem is male violence

Some of those males are transwomen

I used to find him tedious when I agreed with him.

What struck me was that he didn’t say he wanted to show his support for the miners or anything like that, he just considered himself to be part of their tradition for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Bloody wally.

Is it old men scolding women week or something? Bragg, Fry, O'Dowd - they're all in their mid 60s.

Not, I say hastily, that people in their mid 60s are not entitled to speak their (indeed our) minds on things, but all three of them rolled out at the same time? Is there something in the cocoa?

It makes my very disappointed in Paul Heaton that he keeps rolling out this wanker as his support act.

and now he pushes an ideology manufactured by 21st Century Big Pharma in the language of a seventies trade unionist

oh lordy. Paul Heaton is on my gig wishlist. I may have to rethink

I noticed he dropped the 'and sisters' pretty quickly from his address to the audience. After a minute he was just talking to his 'bruvvers'.

Says it all really.

He used to be into supporting the working class, now it's largely middle class, confused men.

The crowd looks thoroughly unconvinced.

That's exactly why I haven't seen Paul Heaton