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Post by pizzy on Apr 12, 2005 9:36:59 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher – 'I'm Voting Labour'
Noel Gallagher has revealed that he will vote for Labour in the forthcoming General Election.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with MTV News, the Oasis star explained how he only gets political on election days and which way he sways when it comes down to it. "I only get political every five years and that's when I get my ballot paper and go down to wherever it is I am living," he said. "I laugh at the people who are obviously going to vote Conservative on the way in with their f*cking wax jackets on and their sensible shoes."
"It's the only day I get political when I go down and vote, and I'll be voting Labour because I think its morally right.
"I will think that until the Conservative Party come up with a leader with an ounce of credibility or who is as good a public speaker or has got anywhere half the intelligence of Tony Blair/ Gordon Brown, (until then) they are finished in this country."
Noel went on to add another reason to vote red: "Another reason to vote Labour is if you f*cking don't and the Conservatives get in Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here and let's face it none of us want that!"
DL 11/04/2005
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2005 9:40:18 GMT -5
wonder if he will be invited to 10 downing street if labour wins  ;D |
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Post by pizzy on Apr 12, 2005 9:42:09 GMT -5
wonder if he will be invited to 10 downing street if labour wins ;D after the slagging he got last time, I doubt it... ;D |
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Post by DixonHill on Apr 12, 2005 16:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by wash25 on Apr 12, 2005 16:35:48 GMT -5
Tony Blair is 6 foot so Noel is like, by that picture, what? 5'9?
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Post by davidennis67 on Apr 12, 2005 16:37:35 GMT -5
Noel's 5' 8 and Liam's 5' 10, I think.
Liam has the look of someone much taller though.
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Post by globe on Apr 12, 2005 17:19:35 GMT -5
I love Noel Gallagher
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Post by Mario on Apr 12, 2005 17:27:39 GMT -5
All i wanna say is fuck bush!
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Post by albertzz on Apr 12, 2005 18:30:58 GMT -5
Love it!
He's got loads of cash but he's not about to vote for self-interested tax breaks.
as for his comments on Tony - they are dead on
but he did neglect to mention that whole war thing
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Post by belgallagher on Apr 12, 2005 18:34:34 GMT -5
i always wanted to know what did noel think of politics..
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Post by wash25 on Apr 12, 2005 18:36:06 GMT -5
Who cares about the war. That is so yesterday.
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Post by albertzz on Apr 12, 2005 19:10:03 GMT -5
um.....
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Post by drunken guitar pop on Apr 12, 2005 19:41:41 GMT -5
I'm glad he's not talking about the war. I don't even care what his position is because I'm thankful he's not just another whiny media darling who thinks his views are that important. I love the guy, but writing pretty songs shouldn't make anyone a political leader. Period. *Sigh.*  |
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Post by jobero on Apr 12, 2005 19:43:20 GMT -5
The pictures shit though ennit? - Noel on the Live Forever Docu-Movie ;D |
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Post by albertzz on Apr 12, 2005 19:46:00 GMT -5
Just in case you were responding to me - I wasn't saying he should be a political leader
and yeah, I'm tired of hearing about the war and in a way it was good that he didn't talk about it, STILL my comment "um" was in response to wash25 b/c I think that to discount the past in terms of making a political decision is ridiculous
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Post by drunken guitar pop on Apr 12, 2005 19:51:18 GMT -5
Just in case you were responding to me - I wasn't saying he should be a political leader No, that was just a general statement. |
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Post by cigsandbooze on Apr 12, 2005 20:45:08 GMT -5
Is the Labour party equivalent to America's democrats?
I am an American Conservative (Republican) and I have voted for Bush in the last two elections (I campaigned for him in the first election while I was in college).
I am just trying to understand where Noel stands.
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Post by drunken guitar pop on Apr 12, 2005 20:55:49 GMT -5
Is the Labour party equivalent to America's democrats? According to Noel himself, yes. I have the quote in an interview somewhere. But if he were an American he'd probably vote donkey. But like I said, I don't care at all, personally. |
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Post by Way Cool Jr. on Apr 12, 2005 22:01:38 GMT -5
conservatives and liberals aren't exactly the same in both countries, there's a lot of overlap sure, but they aren't strictly speaking the same at all.
From what I know and can get in the USnews, Blair is pretty much a traitor to the Labour Party because he became more conservative and therefore mostly moderate and hardly to the left like old Labour.
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Post by albertzz on Apr 12, 2005 22:08:18 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true, blair did steer the party more moderate than its traditional roots to the left, but it is still more left than the conservatives but maybe not as left as the liberals anymore
anyway, it's hardly surprising that noel votes labour coming from burnage and all - regardless of your political views I just find it admirable that Noel's reason for voting labour is 'moral' as in he thinks it a duty (b/c the system is unfair, b/c life is unfair or whatever) to help out those who are less fortunate and provide public goods and etc - and the reason why I admire him for this stance is b/c he's filthy rich! so it's not self-interested at all - though one could argue it might have been when he was younger
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Post by wash25 on Apr 12, 2005 22:10:32 GMT -5
Um, ya, according to Noel G., US REPUBLICANS = UK CONSERVATIVES and US DEMOCRATS = UK LABOR.
But not really. I mean, I'm not making any value judgments either way-- but the positions of the mainstream right in the UK are the positions of the mainstream center/left in the US.
UK CONSERVATIVES = US MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS or INDIES
UK LABOR = US FAR LEFT-WING DEMOCRATS
UK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS = US SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS
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Post by albertzz on Apr 12, 2005 22:18:56 GMT -5
That's true - I think he said that though - maybe he didn't - regardless - the essential placing of the parties on the spectrum are the same - ti's just that the entire spectrum (or all the parties on that spectrum, whichever makes more sense to you) has been shifted over a fair amount to the right in the US.
As in Noel, I think is essentially right (sort of) it's just that all the parties in the US are far more right-wing - like most of Europe
wow, come to think of it this post is redundant and therefore useless, sorr, oh well too late now
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Post by Way Cool Jr. on Apr 12, 2005 22:22:09 GMT -5
Um, ya, according to Noel G., US REPUBLICANS = UK CONSERVATIVES and US DEMOCRATS = UK LABOR. But not really. I mean, I'm not making any value judgments either way-- but the positions of the mainstream right in the UK are the positions of the mainstream center/left in the US. UK CONSERVATIVES = US MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS or INDIES UK LABOR = US FAR LEFT-WING DEMOCRATS UK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS = US SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS thats kinda the feeling i get too about the UK political parties, the people are just further left than people in the US so its hard to equate parties |
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Post by jobero on Apr 12, 2005 23:24:41 GMT -5
Yaaawwwwnnnnn!
;D
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Post by globe on Apr 13, 2005 3:52:52 GMT -5
Um, ya, according to Noel G., US REPUBLICANS = UK CONSERVATIVES and US DEMOCRATS = UK LABOR. But not really. I mean, I'm not making any value judgments either way-- but the positions of the mainstream right in the UK are the positions of the mainstream center/left in the US. UK CONSERVATIVES = US MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS or INDIES UK LABOR = US FAR LEFT-WING DEMOCRATS UK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS = US SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS Actually your wrong. its more like UK CONSERVATIVES = the biggest bunch of tossers known to man And I think your just a wee bit off in calling the Liberal Democrats - Communists. Hillarious ;D  |
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