@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.
A two fingered salute to all arrogant, oik lefties
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.