ddw of Winsor, Yes I agree with every point about Billy Bragg, truely awful love-me-I'm-a-liberal attitude and sings like a yob. Great pity he did the Woody Guthrie stuff; pity it wasn't ... new thread needed here. For a UK singer I'd vote Jez Lowe, excellent singer, instrumentalist and song writer - socialist in the broad sense without stupidity or winging.