Billy Bragg - Between The Wars

[@terencequinn2682]

“I voted not for the iron fist but for the helping hand”. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

[@pauljones5066]

pity that the not-so-liberal progressive left have gone back to the Iron Fist, I would say in fact THE modern tragedy

[@terencequinn2682]

@@pauljones5066 ha ha ha - the right wing snowflake appears! I hope Jeremy Clarkson punches you in the face when go snivelling up to him asking if he’ll sign one of his self gratifying puerile books. Then you can tell him he was quite right.

[@rikkinadir7979]

@@terencequinn2682 Agree 100%

[@christophermelton232]

"I kept voting, not for the iron fist but for a helping hand. Theirs is a country with a wall around it and mine is a faith in my fellow man." Relatable 30 years later from the USA

[@thiscorrosion900]

Yep, because as usual, we have to kick against the Nazi cunts all day long.

[@jsnew3154]

And the UK too.

[@clintbeast-bud8119]

The land with a wall around it seems to faulter in these times

[@ToryTerminator]

Sweet moderation, heart of this nation. Been listening to a lot of BB again recently.

[@jonassundell9366]

Tory terminator - what a glorious name! Bless you. From gothenburg Sweden.

[@peteby485]

I wonder what Billy thinks of the Labour party today . They used to stand with the people not stand against them .

[@jonassundell9366]

Well, he was not a liberal back then, but more into LeoTrotskij... hehe. Still, he wasnt backing one step. Stay safe friend.

[@matthewcoyle5277]

Billy is the voice of his people. The man’s magic as a lyricist

[@adamcrofts58]

truer now than ever before

[@angelachicken4141]

I wish this was our National Anthem

[@danielmarshall4587]

That's a thought.

[@sparkymahoney4343]

Happy May Day! Workers of the world unite!

[@margin606]

An absolute classic!

[@shadow27b]

Sadly, still painfully relevant.

[@Danny123a]

So true comrade, but keep the faith

[@aureliaarrietty6706]

great song

[@chrisredding6673]

I was a steel worker. Now the steelworks is a retail park. :-)

[@peterwood3828]

pure class

[@davidwoods8181]

Beautiful :')

[@mmiggins6717]

Thankyou David -that means a lot to me and I am sure it would to my mum too

[@ceterisparibus6261]

brilliant brilliant song! first song i heard when i was in san antonio ibiza... i can't remember but it was near the west end... and probably came on at one of the british pubs... either it was this one or another of his rock-a-billy style tunes..

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

working 3 places at once - can relate

[@ChrisSmith-py5pk]

Times got harder again sadly..

[@mrsd8401]

With that lot in charge these days, it feels more and more reflective of the times

[@plague_doctor666]

and two years later, nothing has changed.

[@lastrevenant6180]

More people could do listen to this today

[@jeremybradford8941]

Goose bumps!

[@stephenpoulson5505]

Fuck a 30 second Katie Price advert before I heard the song

[@dannymatthews8579]

Stephen Poulson well at least it made you appreciate it all the more

[@Danny123a]

So timeless, Britain's Woody Guthrie

[@jonassundell9366]

Honest and good man, this one! At least one who blows the whistle bout the s.c heroism and killing people because some one higher up in the food chain told you so. Workers Unite and Organise!❤. Greetings from Gothenburg Sweden.

[@juliarees566]

Well said

[@patkelly3966]

Sweet Moderation

[@bbbl8910]

Keep fighting n smiling

[@jedtattum9996]

i raised a family in times of austerity..... yup been there.

[@adamcharney]

Build me a path from cradle to grave.

[@seanericanderson3666]

This is real

[@jedtattum9996]

the helping hand.... so appropriate now.

[@andrewheaton3755]

Were arming The Beastie Boys

[@chrisedwards3883]

Will this never be relevant?

[@rifow1]

+Chris Edwards not unless we have a Corbyn government

[@mistresstrellis6402]

Looking less and less likely by the hour! BBC, with its usual "impartiality", fails to report his campaigning, then reports he's failed to campaign!

[@allanmenzies8668]

as a Yankee, this song will never be relevant in my country ever again. here's to riding the never ending proxy war to armageddon.

[@bigkuriboh3814]

No it and its message will be ever relevant to humanity, this is our nature.

[@gavinwilson2832]

Listening on the day after Corbyn was suspended from the labour party, I dunno, to me (and it may be reductive or over simplistic) it seems that whether it's a discussion on poverty or zero hour contracts if we all worked a bit harder we could be socially mobile. I know it's not that simple, a lot of people work hard for their relative wealth but I could never see living on universal credit or whatever as the soft option. Rant almost over, we need the government to value everybody in society.

[@JohnnyFriendly]

Even if that were true the problem with that philosophy is that not everyone can be socially mobile. For every winner there will be a thousand losers. What happens to them? Millions of people work hard every day and get nowhere economically (eg. gig workers, charity staff, interns). Poverty is built into our economic system; the rich cannot be rich unless vast swathes of the population are poor

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

I'd sooner go to prison than return to working like a slave for an agency for poxy 10 quid an hour. Part time workers get the piss taken out of them by the job centre.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

​@@JohnnyFriendlyTime we changed that. Let's go and kick the crap out of Jacob Reese Mogg!

[@ubute2]

NEVER TRUST A TORY.....

[@benharris4795]

Build us a path from cradle to grave...

[@stace3037]

+BEN HARRIS I think he is advocating a lifetime of wage slavery for the proles

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

@@stace3037 proles? Soz, my dictionary is out of date, seems like I don't speak human these days (ancient as f}

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

@@stace3037 oh, never mind ... got it :p brain delay

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

3377

[@nickbooze9766]

Working Class anthem baby!

[@keithbentley6081]

Reminds me I’m still a red despite the continuing dilution and hijacking by the bourgeoisie.

[@keithbentley6081]

Billy Bragg isn't a red anymore though, he's a simpering, liberal shithead.

[@bbbl8910]

God save our gracious sell out!

[@sianmcguinness1384]

Ever more apt today ...

[@DPG214]

Sounds like the German national anthem: "Deutschland ueber Alles."

[@russellthomson5571]

It seems things are slow to change. After 60 years I am disappointed.

[@dczzzz55]

So many quotable lines - I like 'I'll give my consent to ANY Government that does not deny a man a living wage'

[@smellincoffee]

Fuck the state, google voluntaryism

[@teambammotorsport7249]

allways been the same goverment looks after the rich sing it billy

[@bbbl8910]

Sell out. I and sang in the King

[@bbbl8910]

Sell out