Morrissey Releases New Statement About Thatcher’s Funeral
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
English rock legend Morrissey has released another statement surrounding the recent death of Tory PM Margaret Thatcher, this time in reference to her funeral - which he says is ‘rubbing salt in the wound’ of her ‘victims’.
Morrissey is known to vocalise the injustices he sees in the British government, and often involves himself with political debate - it’s not uncommon to find quotes from the former Smiths star floating around the press every week.
Now, following on from last week’s Thatcher statement - which saw him claiming that she ‘did not give a shit about people’ - he’s released another lengthy piece of writing, this time about her funeral, via Morrissey fansite True to You. It reads:
“I have listened and I have seen a lack of truth that we had dared not believe existed in modern Britain. Margaret Thatcher has left the order of the world, and she is not to blame for the reports of her own death - reports so dangerously biased and full of intolerant menace that we now wonder how we can possibly believe anything that has ever been recorded in British history books.
“The coverage by the British media of Thatcher's death has been exclusively absorbed in Thatcher's canonization to such a censorial degree that we suddenly see the modern British establishment as an uncivilized entity of delusion, giving the cold shoulder to truth, and offering indescribable disgust to anyone unimpressed by Thatcher. Even to contest Thatcher's worth is termed ‘anarchist’, and this source of insanity - intolerant of debate, is spearheaded by the BBC reporting not on how things actually are on British streets, but on how they would prefer things to be.
“For those of us who survived despite Thatcherism, and who recall Thatcher as a living hell, The Daily Mail and The Guardian have a steadfast message for us: You are nothing. Our thoughts are further burdened by the taunting extravagance of Thatcher's funeral; the ceremonial lavish, the military salute, stripping Thatcher's victims of everything, and rubbing salt in wounds with teasing relish. It is all happening against us.
“In thought, we have killed Thatcher off a million times, but now that we have the reality of her death, the Metropolitan Police have set up new laws against us, and within paragraphs of law, we are not allowed to register our feelings so that anyone might overhear them. Echoes of Libya? Echoes of any Middle Eastern patch whose troubles are thought too uncivilized for a democratic England where chivalrous respect is afforded to ‘freedom’, and where we are all servile to ‘democracy’. It is, of course, The Big Lie.
“The fact that there will be such an enormous police presence at Thatcher's funeral is evidence that her name is synonymous with trouble - a trouble she brought on herself. No one wished for it, or brought it to her, yet she created her subtle form of anarchy nonetheless. BBC News will scantily report on anti-Thatcher demonstrations as if those taking part aren't real people. Lordly scorn is shown towards North Korea and Syria, and any distant country ruled by tyrannical means, yet the British government employs similar dictatorship tactics in order to protect their own arrogant interests.
“There will be no search for true wisdom this week, as the BBC gleefully report how Ding Dong the witch is dead ‘failed to reach number 1’, and they repeat the word ‘failed’ four times within the brief report, and a shivering sovereign darkness clouds England - such identifications known only in China. There will be no report as to how ‘the British people have succeeded in downloading Ding dong the witch is dead to number 2’, and we are engulfed in Third Reich maneuvers as BBC Radio assume the role of sensible adult, finger-wagging at that naughty public who must not be allowed to hear the song that they have elected to number 2. By banning Ding dong the witch is dead (and only allowing four seconds of a song is, in fact, a ban) the BBC are effectively admitting that the witch in question can only possibly be Margaret Thatcher (and not Margaret Hamilton), even though Thatcher isn't mentioned in the song, which is in fact a harmless, children's song written over 70 years ago.
“Whilst the BBC tut-tut-tutted a polite disapproval at the Russian government for sending a ‘feminist punk’ band to prison for recording an anti-government song, they engage in identical intolerance against Ding dong the witch is dead without a second's hesitation. Thatcher's funeral will be paid for by the public - who have not been asked if they object to paying, yet the public will be barred from attending. In their place, the cast are symbols of withering - as old as their prejudices, adroit at hiding Thatcher's disasters. Ancestry and posterity, trimmed with pageantry, will block out anyone with a gripe. David Cameron will cling to Thatcher as she clung to the Malvinas, each in their last-ditch efforts to survive obscurity. Cameron achieves his own conclusions without any regard for the appalling social record of The Thatcher Destroyer - the protestors outside are simply not being British, or, even worse, are probably from Liverpool.”
The statement carries on even further on the site, and it seems he continues to criticise David Cameron and the BBC, as well as stating that Thatcher ‘remains the enemy within’.
What do you think of the statement - is Morrissey speaking the truth? Let us know in the comment section below.
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