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Morrissey has hit out at this year's Olympic Games claiming he is unable to watch due to the 'blustering jingoism' displayed by the British public.

Writing an open letter to his True to You fanclub, Morrissey also claimed that the Royal Family have 'hijacked' the event for their 'own empirical needs'

The letter in full reads:
 
"I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The "dazzling royals" have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. It is lethal to witness. As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. Meanwhile the British media present 24-hour coverage of the "dazzling royals", laughing as they lavishly spend, as if such coverage is certain to make British society feel fully whole. In 2012, the British public is evidently assumed to be undersized pigmies, scarcely able to formulate thought. "
 
"As I recently drove through Greece I noticed repeated graffiti seemingly everywhere on every available wall. In large blue letters it said WAKE UP WAKE UP. It could almost have been written with the British public in mind, because although the spirit of 1939 Germany now pervades throughout media-brand Britain, the 2013 grotesque inevitability of Lord and Lady Beckham (with Sir Jamie Horrible close at heel) is, believe me, a fate worse than life. WAKE UP WAKE UP. "

These comments are the latest insults to come from Morrissey as he becomes increasingly outspoken in recent years. Most recently he has taken shots at the Royals (again) and Syria at his concerts.

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