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tune with the Thatcherites, shall we say there were some alternative voices and
protests around today.
I'm joined now by the singer-songwriter Paul Heap, best known for his time in the
House Martins and the beautiful South and with a bit of a reputation as a
critic of Margaret Thatcher.
Very good evening to you Paul Heap.
How did you mark the day?
How did I mark the day?
I watched a bit of it on Tally and I marked it by coming
down to London to do this really so not a great deal of marking in my
household.
So tell us, you've certainly been known for having a go at
Margaret Thatcher.
What was it really that you and your generation found so
much to protest about?
Well I think it was probably her representation of her
class.
I mean it was a topsy-turvy world politically in those days anyway but you
know particularly as she labelled Mandela a terrorist whilst you know
pick both you know with his death squad activities was a personal friend and
also hard-working miners were labelled as the enemy within and somebody like
General Pinochet another death squad activist was also seen as a friend and
somebody she stood up for.
So I suppose it was it was the inconsistency and it
was the fact that she was called the you know the the lady's not for turning but
when she wanted to turn against democracy she turned like your regular
garden worm.
Today people have found all sorts of voices to either celebrate or
to remonstrate or to protest today.
Some would say that it's you don't speak ill
of the dead when they're dead like this.
I mean how do you think people have
handled what they had to say about her today?
Well I'm not so sure I mean when
certainly when she was ripping apart our communities and particularly our
families in in those communities the awful irony of the whole day today was
while she had done that her own family wasn't setting such a good example and
and you know if I may use a word I hate the word feral but the this dysfunctional
family one of the first dysfunctional feral families that she produced and I'm
not going to mention on a day like this the alcoholic husband or the racist
daughter or the prison-bound son but you know one of the things I felt about
the poor family when they're on the steps at St Paul's was you know the only
person missing from the bottom really was a Jeremy Kyle and I feel as well to
be honest if you're looking at the whole day Fidel Castro recently said of Hugo
Chavez's funeral you can tell and judge a person's popularity by who cries at
the funeral and today was looking on it looking on the coverage I've been
watching is a very bad day for big business and the political elites the
ruling class and a good day for the nurses and the ordinary workers and the
mine workers and steel workers who incidentally weren't celebrating we
never actually spent 10 million on the thing but we're having maybe a quiet
glass of a coca-cola.
What form did the protests take of a quarter of a century
ago when you first got involved if you like in sort of the red wedge movement
where the music profession and the arts came together to raise the voice against
what they believe she was doing wrong?
Well as a relatively young man it made
me fairly angry you know like and and it affected my music actually affected the
way I sang on stage and the way I turned the instruments up and etc etc but on a
personal level I was on the dole at the time and it just felt well I wouldn't
say she was the only one that we were against the conservative movement
throughout you know there were other figures other than Thatcher you know
Tebber himself who I hear got a quiet cheer today but there was there was many
people it wasn't just Thatcher and you know I would argue against this thing
about you know the witch is dead she was an intelligent woman she was a powerful
woman and I felt the greatest thing of the time was that we had an enemy that
we could see and of course these days you you turn on the telly and Cameron is
denying being the son of a banker with banking interests and Miliband is denying
being socialist and everything's in the middle ground at least then we knew who
the enemy were and it was quite clear and quite enjoyable to turn on the telly
and be able to identify a politician by actually what they wore or you know there
was a red tie in the corner for Dennis Skinner and Thatcher was on the other
side with a blue dress it was a much more easier time to express yourself
politically as a young as a young man you know.
Just a thought about this day
and age do you feel as strongly about the governments of more recent years or
was it just mrs.
Thatcher that got you going?
No I think there's enormous amount
of nostalgia in the anti Thatcher thing I feel exactly the same way about
Cameron Osborne and the rest of them exactly the same I think there's an
element of people who you know those people who go to those Rick Astley sort
of 80s concerts who have slagged Thatcher off just for the reason that they're
trying to remember the 80s this is now this is why I want to do now this is I
want to represent those people who I represented back then and I haven't
changed and unfortunately the Conservative Party and the Labour Party
have vanished from their previous position and have become far too chummy
for anybody like myself involved in political debates and I have to say I
feel on the outside but today I feel back on the inside.
So what have they
done left you behind then all these politicians?
I mean recent recent debates
with one of the Conservatives they described me as a class warrior and and
unfortunately neither the Labour Party or the the Conservative Party or the
other lot have seemed to have anybody properly representing that class because
I think what's happened over the years is there's so much investigation on
telly that you can't slip any true feelings into a debate any true
representation even though we know Cameron represents the banking class he
will not slip you can see him is in fact he's an expert with his baby face
public school look he's an expert at covering up his real agenda.
We're gonna
have to leave it there Paul Paul Heaton very good to talk to you [A#m] thank you very
much indeed for joining us on Sky News coming up at 6 more on the funeral of
Lady Thatcher attended by thousands from around the world
[F#]
protests around today.
I'm joined now by the singer-songwriter Paul Heap, best known for his time in the
House Martins and the beautiful South and with a bit of a reputation as a
critic of Margaret Thatcher.
Very good evening to you Paul Heap.
How did you mark the day?
How did I mark the day?
I watched a bit of it on Tally and I marked it by coming
down to London to do this really so not a great deal of marking in my
household.
So tell us, you've certainly been known for having a go at
Margaret Thatcher.
What was it really that you and your generation found so
much to protest about?
Well I think it was probably her representation of her
class.
I mean it was a topsy-turvy world politically in those days anyway but you
know particularly as she labelled Mandela a terrorist whilst you know
pick both you know with his death squad activities was a personal friend and
also hard-working miners were labelled as the enemy within and somebody like
General Pinochet another death squad activist was also seen as a friend and
somebody she stood up for.
So I suppose it was it was the inconsistency and it
was the fact that she was called the you know the the lady's not for turning but
when she wanted to turn against democracy she turned like your regular
garden worm.
Today people have found all sorts of voices to either celebrate or
to remonstrate or to protest today.
Some would say that it's you don't speak ill
of the dead when they're dead like this.
I mean how do you think people have
handled what they had to say about her today?
Well I'm not so sure I mean when
certainly when she was ripping apart our communities and particularly our
families in in those communities the awful irony of the whole day today was
while she had done that her own family wasn't setting such a good example and
and you know if I may use a word I hate the word feral but the this dysfunctional
family one of the first dysfunctional feral families that she produced and I'm
not going to mention on a day like this the alcoholic husband or the racist
daughter or the prison-bound son but you know one of the things I felt about
the poor family when they're on the steps at St Paul's was you know the only
person missing from the bottom really was a Jeremy Kyle and I feel as well to
be honest if you're looking at the whole day Fidel Castro recently said of Hugo
Chavez's funeral you can tell and judge a person's popularity by who cries at
the funeral and today was looking on it looking on the coverage I've been
watching is a very bad day for big business and the political elites the
ruling class and a good day for the nurses and the ordinary workers and the
mine workers and steel workers who incidentally weren't celebrating we
never actually spent 10 million on the thing but we're having maybe a quiet
glass of a coca-cola.
What form did the protests take of a quarter of a century
ago when you first got involved if you like in sort of the red wedge movement
where the music profession and the arts came together to raise the voice against
what they believe she was doing wrong?
Well as a relatively young man it made
me fairly angry you know like and and it affected my music actually affected the
way I sang on stage and the way I turned the instruments up and etc etc but on a
personal level I was on the dole at the time and it just felt well I wouldn't
say she was the only one that we were against the conservative movement
throughout you know there were other figures other than Thatcher you know
Tebber himself who I hear got a quiet cheer today but there was there was many
people it wasn't just Thatcher and you know I would argue against this thing
about you know the witch is dead she was an intelligent woman she was a powerful
woman and I felt the greatest thing of the time was that we had an enemy that
we could see and of course these days you you turn on the telly and Cameron is
denying being the son of a banker with banking interests and Miliband is denying
being socialist and everything's in the middle ground at least then we knew who
the enemy were and it was quite clear and quite enjoyable to turn on the telly
and be able to identify a politician by actually what they wore or you know there
was a red tie in the corner for Dennis Skinner and Thatcher was on the other
side with a blue dress it was a much more easier time to express yourself
politically as a young as a young man you know.
Just a thought about this day
and age do you feel as strongly about the governments of more recent years or
was it just mrs.
Thatcher that got you going?
No I think there's enormous amount
of nostalgia in the anti Thatcher thing I feel exactly the same way about
Cameron Osborne and the rest of them exactly the same I think there's an
element of people who you know those people who go to those Rick Astley sort
of 80s concerts who have slagged Thatcher off just for the reason that they're
trying to remember the 80s this is now this is why I want to do now this is I
want to represent those people who I represented back then and I haven't
changed and unfortunately the Conservative Party and the Labour Party
have vanished from their previous position and have become far too chummy
for anybody like myself involved in political debates and I have to say I
feel on the outside but today I feel back on the inside.
So what have they
done left you behind then all these politicians?
I mean recent recent debates
with one of the Conservatives they described me as a class warrior and and
unfortunately neither the Labour Party or the the Conservative Party or the
other lot have seemed to have anybody properly representing that class because
I think what's happened over the years is there's so much investigation on
telly that you can't slip any true feelings into a debate any true
representation even though we know Cameron represents the banking class he
will not slip you can see him is in fact he's an expert with his baby face
public school look he's an expert at covering up his real agenda.
We're gonna
have to leave it there Paul Paul Heaton very good to talk to you [A#m] thank you very
much indeed for joining us on Sky News coming up at 6 more on the funeral of
Lady Thatcher attended by thousands from around the world
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tune with the Thatcherites, shall we say there were some alternative voices and
protests around today.
I'm joined now by the singer-songwriter Paul Heap, best known for his time in the
House Martins and the beautiful South and with a bit of a reputation as a
critic of Margaret Thatcher.
Very good evening to you Paul Heap.
How did you mark the day?
How did I mark the day?
_ I watched a bit of it on Tally and I marked it by coming
down to London to do this really so not a great deal of marking in my
household.
_ So tell us, you've certainly been known for having a go at
Margaret Thatcher.
What was it really that you and your generation found so
much to protest about?
Well I think it was probably her representation of her
class.
I mean it was a topsy-turvy world politically in those days anyway but you
know particularly as she labelled Mandela a terrorist whilst you know
pick both you know with his death squad activities was a personal friend and
also hard-working miners _ were labelled as the enemy within and somebody like
General Pinochet another death squad activist was also seen as a friend and
somebody she stood up for.
So I suppose it was it was the inconsistency and it
was the fact that she was called the you know the the lady's not for turning but
when she wanted to turn against democracy she turned like your regular
garden worm. _ _
Today people have found all sorts of voices to either celebrate or
to remonstrate or to protest today.
_ Some would say _ that it's you don't speak ill
of the dead when they're dead like this.
I mean how do you think people have
handled what they had to say about her today?
Well I'm not so sure I mean when
certainly when she was ripping apart our communities and particularly our
families in in those communities the awful irony of the whole day today was
while she had done that her own family wasn't setting such a good example and
and you know if I may use a word I hate the word feral but the this dysfunctional
family one of the first dysfunctional feral families that she produced and I'm
not going to mention on a day like this the alcoholic husband or the racist
daughter or the prison-bound son but you know one of the things I felt about
the poor family when they're on the steps at St Paul's was you know the only
person missing from the bottom really was a Jeremy Kyle and I feel as well to
be honest if you're looking at the whole day Fidel Castro recently said of Hugo
Chavez's funeral you can tell and judge a person's popularity by who cries at
the funeral and today was looking on it looking on the coverage I've been
watching is a very bad day for big business and the political elites the
ruling class and a good day for the nurses and the ordinary workers and the
mine workers and steel workers who incidentally weren't celebrating we
never actually spent 10 million on the thing but we're having maybe a quiet
glass of a coca-cola.
_ What form did the protests take of a quarter of a century
ago when you first got involved if you like in sort of the red wedge movement
where the music profession and the arts came together to raise the voice against
what they believe she was doing wrong?
Well as a relatively young man it made
me fairly angry you know like and and it affected my music actually affected the
way I sang on stage and the way I turned the instruments up and etc etc but on a
personal level I was on the dole at the time and it just felt well I wouldn't
say she was the only one that we were against the conservative movement
_ throughout you know there were other figures other than Thatcher you know
Tebber himself who I hear got a quiet cheer today but there was there was many
people it wasn't just Thatcher and you know I would argue against this thing
about you know the witch is dead she was an intelligent woman she was a powerful
woman and I felt the greatest thing of the time was that we had an enemy that
we could see and of course these days you you turn on the telly and Cameron is
denying being the son of a banker with banking interests and Miliband is denying
being socialist and everything's in the middle ground at least then we knew who
the enemy were and it was quite clear and quite enjoyable to turn on the telly
and be able to identify a politician by actually what they wore or you know there
was a red tie in the corner for Dennis Skinner and Thatcher was on the other
side with a blue dress it was a much more easier time to express yourself
politically as a young as a young man you know. _ _ _
_ _ _ Just a thought about this day
and age do you feel as strongly about the governments of more recent years or
was it just mrs.
Thatcher that got you going?
No I think there's enormous amount
of nostalgia in the anti Thatcher thing I _ feel exactly the same way about
Cameron Osborne and the rest of them exactly the same _ I think there's an
element of people who you know those people who go to those Rick Astley sort
of 80s concerts who have slagged Thatcher off just for the reason that they're
trying to remember the 80s this is now this is why I want to do now this is I
want to represent those people who I represented back then and I haven't
changed and unfortunately the Conservative Party and the Labour Party
have vanished from their previous position and have become far too chummy
for anybody like myself involved in political debates and I have to say I
feel on the outside but today I feel back on the inside. _
_ So what have they
done left you behind then all these politicians?
I mean recent recent debates
with one of the Conservatives they described me as a class warrior and and
unfortunately neither the Labour Party or the the Conservative Party or the
other lot have seemed to have anybody properly representing that class because
I think what's happened over the years is there's so much investigation on
telly that you can't slip any true feelings into a debate any true
representation even though we know Cameron represents the banking class he
will not slip you can see him is in fact he's an expert with his baby face
public school look he's an expert at covering up his real agenda.
We're gonna
have to leave it there Paul Paul Heaton very good to talk to you [A#m] thank you very
much indeed for joining us on Sky News coming up at 6 more on the funeral of
Lady Thatcher attended by thousands from around the world
_ [F#] _ _
protests around today.
I'm joined now by the singer-songwriter Paul Heap, best known for his time in the
House Martins and the beautiful South and with a bit of a reputation as a
critic of Margaret Thatcher.
Very good evening to you Paul Heap.
How did you mark the day?
How did I mark the day?
_ I watched a bit of it on Tally and I marked it by coming
down to London to do this really so not a great deal of marking in my
household.
_ So tell us, you've certainly been known for having a go at
Margaret Thatcher.
What was it really that you and your generation found so
much to protest about?
Well I think it was probably her representation of her
class.
I mean it was a topsy-turvy world politically in those days anyway but you
know particularly as she labelled Mandela a terrorist whilst you know
pick both you know with his death squad activities was a personal friend and
also hard-working miners _ were labelled as the enemy within and somebody like
General Pinochet another death squad activist was also seen as a friend and
somebody she stood up for.
So I suppose it was it was the inconsistency and it
was the fact that she was called the you know the the lady's not for turning but
when she wanted to turn against democracy she turned like your regular
garden worm. _ _
Today people have found all sorts of voices to either celebrate or
to remonstrate or to protest today.
_ Some would say _ that it's you don't speak ill
of the dead when they're dead like this.
I mean how do you think people have
handled what they had to say about her today?
Well I'm not so sure I mean when
certainly when she was ripping apart our communities and particularly our
families in in those communities the awful irony of the whole day today was
while she had done that her own family wasn't setting such a good example and
and you know if I may use a word I hate the word feral but the this dysfunctional
family one of the first dysfunctional feral families that she produced and I'm
not going to mention on a day like this the alcoholic husband or the racist
daughter or the prison-bound son but you know one of the things I felt about
the poor family when they're on the steps at St Paul's was you know the only
person missing from the bottom really was a Jeremy Kyle and I feel as well to
be honest if you're looking at the whole day Fidel Castro recently said of Hugo
Chavez's funeral you can tell and judge a person's popularity by who cries at
the funeral and today was looking on it looking on the coverage I've been
watching is a very bad day for big business and the political elites the
ruling class and a good day for the nurses and the ordinary workers and the
mine workers and steel workers who incidentally weren't celebrating we
never actually spent 10 million on the thing but we're having maybe a quiet
glass of a coca-cola.
_ What form did the protests take of a quarter of a century
ago when you first got involved if you like in sort of the red wedge movement
where the music profession and the arts came together to raise the voice against
what they believe she was doing wrong?
Well as a relatively young man it made
me fairly angry you know like and and it affected my music actually affected the
way I sang on stage and the way I turned the instruments up and etc etc but on a
personal level I was on the dole at the time and it just felt well I wouldn't
say she was the only one that we were against the conservative movement
_ throughout you know there were other figures other than Thatcher you know
Tebber himself who I hear got a quiet cheer today but there was there was many
people it wasn't just Thatcher and you know I would argue against this thing
about you know the witch is dead she was an intelligent woman she was a powerful
woman and I felt the greatest thing of the time was that we had an enemy that
we could see and of course these days you you turn on the telly and Cameron is
denying being the son of a banker with banking interests and Miliband is denying
being socialist and everything's in the middle ground at least then we knew who
the enemy were and it was quite clear and quite enjoyable to turn on the telly
and be able to identify a politician by actually what they wore or you know there
was a red tie in the corner for Dennis Skinner and Thatcher was on the other
side with a blue dress it was a much more easier time to express yourself
politically as a young as a young man you know. _ _ _
_ _ _ Just a thought about this day
and age do you feel as strongly about the governments of more recent years or
was it just mrs.
Thatcher that got you going?
No I think there's enormous amount
of nostalgia in the anti Thatcher thing I _ feel exactly the same way about
Cameron Osborne and the rest of them exactly the same _ I think there's an
element of people who you know those people who go to those Rick Astley sort
of 80s concerts who have slagged Thatcher off just for the reason that they're
trying to remember the 80s this is now this is why I want to do now this is I
want to represent those people who I represented back then and I haven't
changed and unfortunately the Conservative Party and the Labour Party
have vanished from their previous position and have become far too chummy
for anybody like myself involved in political debates and I have to say I
feel on the outside but today I feel back on the inside. _
_ So what have they
done left you behind then all these politicians?
I mean recent recent debates
with one of the Conservatives they described me as a class warrior and and
unfortunately neither the Labour Party or the the Conservative Party or the
other lot have seemed to have anybody properly representing that class because
I think what's happened over the years is there's so much investigation on
telly that you can't slip any true feelings into a debate any true
representation even though we know Cameron represents the banking class he
will not slip you can see him is in fact he's an expert with his baby face
public school look he's an expert at covering up his real agenda.
We're gonna
have to leave it there Paul Paul Heaton very good to talk to you [A#m] thank you very
much indeed for joining us on Sky News coming up at 6 more on the funeral of
Lady Thatcher attended by thousands from around the world
_ [F#] _ _