Morrissey and the NME are both wrong

After a brief happy spell of three and a half years, the NME and Morrissey have once again locked horns over an interview that was published in today's issue. In the interview, which details Morrissey's views on immigration in a detailed way, the NME question his views on the subject.

This news story details the whole saga quite well.

To be honest, I have beefs with both subjects.

In regards to Morrissey, I think that some of the comments he made in that interview were very confusing. One minute he was for and then against and then back to being for and then against immigration. His mind is quite muddled on the issue. If he was a British resident, I suppose I could have a level of understanding with his comments. But he isn't.

Morrissey has spend the best part of the 90s and the first half in this decade residing in LA and then last year he moved to Rome. He has essentially been cut off, for the most part, from British politics for more than a decade. So for him to make some of the comments he made is a show of naivety on his part.

But then again, the NME telling me that his views are wrong (which is what they are essentially doing) is plain stupid. I do think Morrissey is a twat, not just for this but for other things too, but I'm sure there are other people who aren't so...politics savy I guess. Basically, it's propaganda on the NME's part to not allign with the Tories.

It's not just this feature that shows their political bias either. It's become a habit of the NME for the last few months and it does feel like propaganda now (anti-racism campaign aside, which is totally justified for the obvious reasons). I allow my friends and other people to have their own opinions - not to force feed them policies.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

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