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Morrissey has turned down Channel 4's offer to record an alternative Christmas Day message and in a rare interview attacked consumerism.
The Smiths frontman has explained that Channel 4 asked him to follow in the footsteps of Ali G, Edward Snowden, Marge Simpon and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to record a message to go out at the same time as the Queen's annual festive address.
Morrissey explained to fan website True For You "My view that the monarchy should be quietly dismantled for the good of England is reasonably well-known, but I don't think Christmas Day is quite the time to be trading slaps. The Queen should be allowed the impassioned trance of her annual address to the British people, if only to once again prove that, in her frozen posture, she has nothing to offer and nothing to say, and she has no place in modern Britain except as a figure of repression; no independent thought required. The Queen very well might be the most powerful woman in England, but she lacks the power to make herself loved, and the phony inflation of her family attacks all rational intellect.
"All over the world highly civilized peoples exist without the automatic condescension of a 'royal' family. England can do the same, and will find more respect for doing so."
After a triumphant performance at London's O2 (read our review here), Morrissey recently had to cancel dates in Greece and Turkey.
Also in a rare interviewhe revealed to a Serbian website B92 (via Morrissey-Solo) his thoughts on consumerism and his outrage at the Michael Brown case. Through Google Translate, Morrissey appears to say the following: "Obama is visually dark, but his views are white, but because of [that] his skin color did not change anything [about politics in the US]. The murder of Michael Brown is proof of that."
He went on to attack consumerism, and somewhat strangely, space travel. "The truth is that people are obsessed with money, but the world is also obsessed with space travel, and the evidence that we have some practical benefits of going into space is practically non-existent. [The] moon has absolutely nothing to offer the people. But why are we so obsessed with [it]?"
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