LONDON (AP) — Paul Weller once peddled passionate political pop, writing lyrics that captured working-class frustrations and urged the toppling of Margaret Thatcher’s British government.
The former Jam frontman is singing a different tune now.
He says British politics has become “very marketed and PR-led and corporate, and (politicians) are all just kind of nice, fluffy, well-scrubbed middle-class boys.”
Weller is not the only celebrity to offer cynicism rather than an endorsement ahead of Britain’s May 7 election. Comedian Russell Brand says he’s never voted.
The ideological divide of the Thatcher era seems long gone. These days, upper-class Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron says The Jam’s anti-elite anthem “The Eton Rifles” is one of his favorite songs.
Weller says that’s “laughable. It’s like, ‘What didn’t you understand about the lyrics?'”
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