.. and as much as me and my mates have always liked and respected Billy Bragg

[ and for that matter Joe Strummer ]

Billy Bragg is only just another middle aged middle class dad
who's eared enough ££££ out of the music industry to move his family to a nice house by the seaside..


.. he's not beyond criticism or reproach..



but in this instance his views on strategic voting
are as timely and appropriate
as his involvement in red wedge
which at least attempted to ger young people to consider voting
as their right to be used,/I> positively responsably

to help improve living and working conditions for all
who's lives were wreckedby the wicked economics of Thatchers tories..

[and probably still will be for at least a few more decades while labour tries to restabilise our economy and repair the ravages of the tories deeply rooted socio economic legacy]..