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and that’s the way forward I think.” It’s like “We’re gonna kick some ass!” “Yeah, voting Labour Party shows that underneath all
well, I don’t think you’re kicking anyone’s ass. I that crap that’s in the press, people are saying
kunk Anansie are well known for speak- think we’re getting our ass kicked to be quite “Actually, I don’t believe the press, I don’t believe
Sing out in their lyrics on important social honest.” We’re at war with an ideology. We’re any of this, I think this guy’s actually quite cool”.
and political subjects. On ‘Anarchytecture’ is a not at war with a country, because the ideology Black Velvet thinks Jeremy is very cool. For
song called ‘Bullets’, which is the band’s reac- is in every country on the planet. You can’t go starters he’s vegetarian. He’s compassionate.
tion to various terrorist activities that have hap- and bomb Paris, you can’t go and bomb London He rides a bike, goes out on the streets and
pened in the world. ‘See the man with the guns where these people are building and kicking off. helps charities and when a fan began a go-
and the bullets for his son,’ Skin sings. It nar- We’re playing into their hands by that kind of fundme campaign to get him his ideal bike, he
rates those out to get others. Skin posted a talk. And to be quite honest we’re not kicking wrote that instead he’d donate all the money to
quote from Jeremy Corbyn on Instagram after anyone’s arse, absolutely no-one. We’re not charity including the bike money. He would not
the Paris attacks which killed rock fans at the winning, we’re losing horribly. And you’d think accept any of it. Now that’s someone we’d like
Bataclan, amongst others. Along with the quote, that people would think, “OK, what’s happened to see running the country.
Skin herself wrote ‘With the UK decision to go since 9/11? What’s happened in 15 years?” Ac- “He’s a real left-winger,” says Skin. “He’s the
to war yesterday it was a very sad day.’ So how tually, we’ve just got our arse kicked all over the real deal. He didn’t go to Eton. That’s the prob-
refreshing does Skin find Jeremy Corbyn, know- world and now everyone’s running scared and lem with our politics in England. They all come
ing that he is against war and violence? are running in fear. So that’s what’s really hap- from the same elite. They all come from the
“I think it’s refreshing to have a different pened. The cleverest minds are on this, you’d fucking same school. They all went to Eton or
point of view,” Skin replies. “I think that New think – but the reaction has been the same for somewhere like that. Then they all went to Ox-
Labour is really just a Tory government sidekick. centuries. If someone does something violent to ford or Cambridge. They’re all mates. They
I think there hasn’t been a real opposition in a you… an eye for an eye, you do something vio- might pretend to be Labour or Conservative but
very, very long time. I mean, like a real opposi- lent to them back. But that clearly hasn’t worked. they’re upper class. Not even real class. Upper
tion to right-wing Labour politics. We’ve not re- You’d think there’d be a desire for a more intel- class. They all come from the elite. Finally we’ve
ally had that opposition for a long time and I ligent solution. And at least Jeremy Corbyn is got someone who’s come up from the streets
think it’s really refreshing to actually have a com- like “Well, the war’s not working, let’s see if we whose been a very powerful fighter. He’s anti-
pletely different left-wing view on it. The Ameri- can do something else,” and he just gets called nuclear and that was a good thing. I think what’s
can form of policy and the British form of policy left-wing and a communist and a pro-extremist, wrong with our country – all our politicians are
after 9/11 has been atrocious. It’s just been the but I don’t think he is. What’s really interesting from the same class of people. Tony Blair and
dumbest kind of reaction. “We’re gonna kick is that our press in England is so right-wing. Ru- David Cameron, they have no idea what it’s like
some ass,” like fucking Sarah Palin. That pert Murdoch owns it all. And for him (Jeremy to live in an area where people have grown up
woman couldn’t be more stupid if… oh my God! Corbyn) to get voted in, and have more people in complete and abject poverty. They just keep

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