Posted on 11/28/2007 2:46:12 PM PST by Cecily
The pop singer Morrissey claims he can no longer live in a Britain he believes lost to an "immigration explosion".
The former frontman of the Smiths, who is now based in Rome, claimed England was just 'a memory now'.
The 48-year-old added: "Other countries have held on to their basic identity yet it seems to me that England was thrown away.
"The change in England is so rapid compared to the change in any other country.
"If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent.
"You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
"The British identity is very attractive, I grew up into it and I find it quaint and very amusing."
Morrissey, who has sung of his love for English culture and can count Tory leader David Cameron as a fan, is the son of an Irish immigrant family which settled in Manchester.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I used to dream, and I used to vow
I wouldn’t dream of it now
We look to Los Angeles
For the language we use
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead
How do you say “Mayor of Mope” in Italian?
Love his music, but he always was a lefty on politics. Maybe he is finally seeing things from a different perspective.
Hmmmm...sounds like a more articulate version of what former MLB pitcher John Rocker said about walking in New York City.
"The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
"If you are not a liberal by the time you're twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you're forty, you have no brain." -Winston Churchill
I was talking to a lovely Irish girl about a month ago, who was recently returned from a trip to Ireland. She said that there are no Irishmen left in Dublin, except a couple of old pub keepers who stick around to serve the tourists.
No, Morrissey is long rumored to have nationalist and skinhead leanings. Along with being a vegetarian and barely closeted homosexual.
That quote is falsely attributed to Churchill. There is no record of him ever actually saying it.
I have heard that comment supposedly by Churchill so many times. I never thought it was accurate. I was a conservative in my teens and twenties and always was compassionate. ;) So are countless other young conservatives.
Do you have any idea of who *did* say it?
That explains a LOT. Too bad, his music is cool.
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
-Sir Winston Churchill
I guess he’ll never work for the BBC.
George Carlin?
Mark Twain?
Morrissey is certainly a fun personality.
But Johnny Marr was the genius behind The Smiths.
Wow, There is one thing me and this freak have in common.
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