Morrissey

[G B Young]

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I don't know what's happened to him. The Smiths were so anti-Thatcher. If he's merely attention seeking, he's far too intelligent for that.

I think at best he's simply become a cranky oldish man and at worst more openly racist. Down the years there's been enough ambiguity about some of his statements and actions for the jury to be out, but in recent years calling the Chinese a 'subspecies' and his recent comments about Khan and immigration ('Germany is now the rape capital or Europe') don't really leave any room for doubt.

Perhaps, as I said earlier, Marr was the one who fuelled The Smiths' perceived political identity. Or was Morrissey anti-Thatcher because he didn't agree with her that our future was in Europe? As he said in 1992, "I don’t want to be European. I want England to remain an island".