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  • Pet Shop Boys' Labour snub (lame 80's band did not die of AIDs, trashing Bush, Blair on new album)

    03/01/2006 9:51:23 AM PST · by presidio9 · 38 replies · 1,065+ views
    Evening Standard ^ | 1 March 2006
    The Pet Shop Boys are to use their new album to attack the Government. Lead singer Neil Tennant regularly donated thousands of pounds to the Labour Party during its first term in office between 1997 and 2001 but he now votes Liberal Democrat. Tennant and Chris Lowe, the other half of the synth-pop duo whose hits include It's A Sin and West End Girls, went to several party functions hosted by Tony Blair, including the notorious "Cool Britannia" celebration at Number 10 in July 1997. Now, however, Tennant and Lowe vehemently oppose the Government's plan for ID cards and the...