DUM BRITONS. Exhibit 8: Billy BraggArchived Message
Posted by Morrissey on July 8, 2019, 10:14 pm
DUM BRITONS Exhibit 8: Billy Bragg
The musician is back on tour and fronting a new documentary about skiffle. But he would rather talk about Brexit, Corbyn, progressive patriotism – and where he buys his hummus.
.... Failing to root out antisemitism is an issue, Bragg concedes. Is Corbyn antisemitic? “I don’t think so. No,” he says. “I think there is a problem. The party has a problem, the leadership has a problem – and the problem is they have not taken it seriously from the start.”
I remind Bragg of another Twitter spat he had last July, in which he seemed to be saying that the Jewish community has “work to do” in order to rebuild trust with Labour. He holds up his hands and says he messed up. “I failed to recognise the right of the Jewish community to decide for themselves what does and doesn’t constitute racism. It’s the Macpherson principle, and I made a very insensitive response to someone’s question that implied that I knew better than the Jewish community about what is and isn’t. I personally don’t believe it amounted to antisemitism, it was just very insensitive. It denied them the right to decide what is a racist attack on their community, and that’s wrong and I apologise for it.” It would be nice to see politicians do that more often: admit when they got something wrong.
What about the skiffle? Coming, but first briefly back to Brexit. .... ad nauseam...
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