Billy Bragg - Thatcherites

[@comradeniamh7771]

if you’re ever having a bad day, just remember that Maggie is still in the mud :)

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

Same but with Ronnie

[@michaelsvoboda1024]

And now my day is even worse /-: Rest in peace, prime minister!

[@paolosantamarianova7781]

True, but unfortunately her kin (of every color) is strongest than ever.

[@saraseejde3156]

@@michaelsvoboda1024 love maggie thatcher

[@chorister20002000]

But the policies live on.

[@gifyifhkhmcucyk6865]

HELL is now being privatized.

[@els1f]

There is no hell, only demons. 😁

[@arthurgride8207]

by a friend of Charlie Clore's We've installed a private furnace Bigger! Hotter! Far! than yours

[@GrandLordGeek]

Honk if Thatcher’s dead.

[@Nina-uc7yp]

ding dong thatcher's deid!

[@spookygloberotter05]

@@Nina-uc7yp too bad the IRA didn't kill the bitch!

[@bigshaq712]

Love limmy

[@user-td4do3op2d]

So clever how phrases such as "gone to the Lords" and the use of metaphor makes the lyrics fit the old style of the music

[@HerculesTheBerkules]

I really love this song, not just the message but the song itself. The passion in this song makes me quite emotional, much like the passion in "the unwelcome guest".

[@adamwallace8769]

Have a listen to Ye Jacobites by name, if you haven’t already

[@matteoj226]

We'll take it back some day, mark my words. All of it.

[@patrickoffenheiser87]

Yes brother

[@MarxEngels-ld1xp]

Well said comrade.

[@pussylord1095]

The whole fucking bakery

[@993Redveg]

And we'll take the land the bakery stands on too! Fuck private property!!

[@dmoneytron]

don't forget the toothbrushes!

[@lyndseykramer]

THEY privatise what is OURS. What is ours.

[@lyndseykramer]

We have to make cuts, make cuts. Not so many teachers; only the young ones, before they leave, they leave. And the experienced ones have left, or been forced out, 'cause they want what's best for the students and the teachers, not the gov and the Head's lackies.

[@hamasmillitant1]

*was, welcome to the future :P

[@mks8172]

@Cian McCabe Is Corbyn not left wing enough?

[@ComradeHellas]

hear hear

[@DerekCivilDefense]

I know. A woman's body is OURS. How dare she demand private rights to it as if it were her private property!? That is fascism! I have a right to sex and that bitch dare deny me my right!? Nobody got hot on their own and owes it to societies of today and the past for protecting her genetic bloodline to create her. Socialize the means of reproduction!

[@NickleJ]

#Bernie2020 Solidarity with my UK brethren.

[@mishamedvedev542]

It’s about time we re-nationalise the railways and save the NHS from greedy private fingers

[@suilvenmountain2395]

so do you remember the state of the railways in the 70s,

[@holgerjahndel3623]

@@suilvenmountain2395 The international LaRouche Movement and their EIR NEWS Agency and also see the international Schiller Institute and the international "Forum for a New Paradigm" by the BRICS states and against neoliberal free trade and so on www.larouchepub.com www.larouchepac.com www.globalresearch.ca

[@JH14FAN]

Fucking this. Our railways are the laughingstock of Earth. Seize it back from capitalist vermin.

[@bigshaq712]

@@suilvenmountain2395 look at the state of it now!

[@samuelthornton9179]

@@suilvenmountain2395 look at our rail today and then look at France. Their system is better.

[@HandleGF]

The phrase that Trevelyan used about the Irish Famine being the work of “an all-wise and merciful providence” smacks so much of Thatcher and the Protestant thing that good works don’t matter, only faith, or, in her case, fanatical conviction. I can’t help also thinking, though, that the miners’ strike could not be similarly policed today, with all the camera phones.

[@amuauma]

This photo reminds me an interview with a great artist Jay Munly: "(...)Billy Bragg, he did something for me. What kind of effect did he have on you? That was when people went to concerts and stood in line. So we were out at the Rainbow Music Hall all day. And all of a sudden this gentleman comes riding up on a bicycle with powered speakers on his back and he starts playing songs. He's like, "Oh, I'm playing tonight," and no one believed him. I don't think his album had even come out in the States yet. I think his EP had come out, so no one knew who he was, but he was on stage a few hours later. I was young at that time. I don't know what I was -- eleven, twelve. I wasn't even a teenager. " :)

[@willybragg1534]

As an American Eugene Debs-Norman Thomas-Bernie Sanders Socialist. this song also appeal to my UK Old Labour-Socialist mindset. They lyrics has a powerful emotional level with a tear in my eye. Love it. Class struggle yesterday, today, tomorrow, and from henceforth!!!

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

Billy Bragg, you are truly a man of great standing and unquestionable honour. Supports: United Ireland. Freedom for Palestine. Scottish Independence. Welsh Independence English Devolved Parliament. English National Anthem. Remain in the EU. & Democratic Socialism.

[@gregorsamsa9264]

Voting for Jeremy Corbyn while supporting Remain is a blatant contradiction.

[@porcelainninja6821]

@Alan Nicholson you're the problem

[@brennanneaton3062]

Alan Nicholson spoken like a true Englishman imperialist

[@RYx222]

@@brennanneaton3062 Spoken like an utter bellend more like

[@gifyifhkhmcucyk6865]

The EU is inherently a neo liberal capitalist organization and should be ended.

[@AndrasGraham]

A great song. Also an alteration of Robert Burns' "Ye Jacobites By Name."

[@Ultimatetruthseeker1]

I was once told 'never enter into a battle of wits with an unarmed man'. I shall take heed of that wisdom.

[@ulfibonkers3205]

The witch died lol

[@sboubalouta]

I'm on a list now aren't I?

[@ZelphyiusGaming]

+Sami Benbella All open socialists are on lists.

[@hamasmillitant1]

it shows they care :P

[@edwardcox7515]

Sami Benbella were all on a list here don't worry

[@patriknilsson2466]

Had my phone bugged,in the 90's....

[@isabellawall3241]

All on the same boat, us socialists :)

[@stephenroche5107]

Billy Bragg 👍

[@ExodusPessoa]

Those are brilliant Lyrics Billy as usually.

[@NirvanaRox4Eva]

Ironically the KZbin advert before this song was one by the Conservatives...

[@alexandercosh2385]

NirvanaRox4Eva get ad blocker...

[@BIGRIC99]

I hope you skipped it

[@ofree8174]

they're desperate

[@ChaingunCassidy]

Not really, they go by the titles of the videos you click on.

[@NathamelCamel]

@@ChaingunCassidy usually, but during the Australian election I got a bunch of ads from the Liberal party

[@Tsuroerusu]

"Ye Cameronites by name ..."

[@danielmarkovic3456]

2018. WE ARE STILL LISTENING THIS SONG

[@supermiffy]

Gone and sadly the legacy lives on.

[@AAA-cy3rq]

It’s a powerful thing! Amazing song. We’ll take it all back some day.

[@callimero2010]

Someday,somewhere,somehow.....

[@dannyesse3043]

Not looking too good at the moment

[@94radio94]

Greetings from Italy and from EU for a free Ireland and a free Scotland

[@dannyesse3043]

Why would you free only Scotland and Ireland? Free all the world (from capitalism)!

[@clintbeast-bud8119]

94radio94 look how it's turning out lad soon England will be free of you lot

[@owenmorgan4649]

Well I’m here on Friday 13th December after the greatest disaster in modern history

[@suilvenmountain2395]

Brexit will be done. this is our country now. we beat the turncoat remainians, the spider woman, the EU, BBC, schools, universities. Trump 2020 and roll on the trade deals!

[@maxwild1212]

@@suilvenmountain2395 Watching in 2021, after the God Emperor lost and threw a tantrum about it. Here's hoping it's the start of a new trend.

[@21irises]

@@suilvenmountain2395 How's that working out for you? :)

[@adelaide7822]

@@suilvenmountain2395 Scottland voted remain, they will remain, even if they have to leave the UK to do it.

[@suilvenmountain2395]

@@adelaide7822 Good. I hope the scots do vote to leave the uk, we will save lots of money and labour will never get in again. happy days.

[@gartnait1]

Tune is over three hundred years old.Rabbie Burns rewrote the words in 1791,published in 1793..The auld tunes are great.

[@eamonncoyle]

Have never even heard this song efore but absolutely love it! Love the sea shanty feel! :-)

[@DaL33T5]

45, heed these words...

[@skinheadsoulbhoy2858]

Billy bragg forever the man of the people

[@theragoooverlord5021]

He is part of the secret religion they all follow in the entertainment industry. Definately not a man of the people

[@turtle1701d]

My fellow comrades. We have to create and cultivate love wherever we can.

[@kenbamber3785]

Some years ago, one of our Trades Union officials stepped through our line, and on to the office. Rewarded by higher position, more money, and a new lesson on how to spit. Oh, don't you worry, T - You're remembered..

[@Supermarioshead]

Going to see him tonight!! yes!!

[@noprofitmaximierung]

Long Live the Truth, keep fighting the deceivers of the People comrade!

[@MrWhiterasta1]

time is close brothers and sisters to reclaim what was ours!!

[@nathancroucher90]

"Thatcher, Thatcher jungle rope bridge snatcher"

[@alundavies8402]

Milk snatcher

[@stanleysdad]

And the jungle canyons are all full of zombie pirates

[@notmarkatall]

Great song, top man.

[@docfurious2408]

I love Billy Bragg but this song is based on a Scots folk song called " Ye Jacobites by Name! ". The lyrics are written by Burns, who was a utopian Socialist. So I reckon he wouldn't mind an other poet of similar views using his work to futher the cause.

[@legato699]

Beautiful song. Good guitar playing

[@neridawalker6623]

big love

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

[@thejim789mac]

EXCELLENT!

[@gmdyt1]

The song should now be reworded, "Your leader she has gone, she has gone to hell" etc. How about a memorial version Billy?

[@MrEGA94]

It's brilliant how the final verse still makes sense- Thatcher has gone to the Lords, and hopefully the Lords judge her as she deserves, and send her downwards.

[@jockmcd6349]

probably even more relevant now than when thatcher was waging class war on the working people in the mining communities

[@WilCornish]

Five more years. I’m furious.

[@georgechristodoulides9354]

+Wil Cornish You okay now mate?

[@WilCornish]

George Christodoulides Ask me in 2020

[@georgechristodoulides9354]

Wil Cornish I'm sure you'll feel the same then

[@yesbenio]

+Wil Cornish Let's organise.

[@KazakhToon]

@@WilCornish 3 years in and they've almost completely fucked the country.

[@tennesseejermyn7705]

I LOVE THIS COMMENT SECTION

[@hank234983]

awesome!!

[@willy1957]

Thatcherites is back😔

[@RosaLuxembae]

They never went away

[@engleberteverything421]

Do you mean Borisites?

[@suilvenmountain2395]

yes. good.

[@CDG7755]

I haven't heard of him before, so I clicked on it, and saw this.

[@jeffh8872]

friday the 13 torres how did the working man forget god help us

[@malvachat]

A day to celebrate.

[@gurneyhalleck7678]

It has been said before on here. But it can always be said again. You privatized what is ours, what is ours, You privatized away, and then you make us pay, we'll take it back someday mark my words. Mark my words we'll take it back someday, we'll take it back someday, mark my words.

[@davebrown9465]

Best thing about Thatcher ' she's dead'

[@Smellycat718]

I saw him tonight. There was more than one mention of one Mr Cameron :)

[@waynemcmillan5970]

If your British vote for Corbyn!

[@derf9465]

About the same amount of votes as the real election, tony benn for me

[@popcitrouilles7447]

Venez donc au Québec pour un autre concert M. Bragg!

[@gifyifhkhmcucyk6865]

We had our own Thatcher here in America his name was Reagan. We've just been indoctrinated into loving him.

[@fatfat1877]

Reagan was doing his best to follow the constitution unlike democrats who trample over it.Fucking freedom hater bitch.

[@RYx222]

@@fatfat1877 Its hardly freedom if you cant afford it you idiot. And there is nothing free in anything he did

[@glenndouglas8822]

Reagan was a saint compared to that bitch.

[@GuitarRocker2008]

The original song is "Ye Jacobites by Name" which was an anti-revolutionary song

[@k0inGamesbro]

No it's based on the levellers & diggers song, which was a sort of proto-socialist group.

[@GuitarRocker2008]

dude the Jacobite rebellion was hundreds of years ago it predates America for christ sake

[@k0inGamesbro]

+Wisdom Pen You do realise the song predates even that? Levellers were a faction in the English Civil war. 1642.

[@GuitarRocker2008]

Hmm did some research and I will concede that the Jacobite version wasn't the original but i've found that both the song you refer to and a song called "my love is in germany" claims the tune (not the lyrics) was composed by some Holland Colonel around the same time. Though looking at the two articles the levellers one seems to have much better citations and evidence so I am happy to concede that point as well until further evidence can be found.

[@gaconnochie]

I'm not sure that you were wrong Wisdom Pen. As far as I know the original song was an anti-Jacobite song just not the version widely known in Scotland which is a later Robert Burns version - which though still blaming the Jacobites was more concillatory but the older song he based it on is vehemently anti-Jacobite and anti-Catholic with the lyrics "With the Pope you covenant, as they say, as they say, With the Pope you covenant, as they say, With the Pope you covenant, And Letters there you sent, Which made your Prince present to array." If anyone actually knows a version that predates the 1745 Rebellion then it'd be interesting to see the lyrics

[@ruaridhb5025]

In 2020 i hope Britain will grow a pair and vote Labour, Go Corbyn !!!

[@aerfen7521]

+Brutalpony Kitteneater Or maybe they didnt want a Zionist foreign ethnic as Prime Minister?

[@aerfen7521]

+Brutalpony Kitteneater ""We"? You and whose army?I suggest many Labour supporters would prefer the PM to be a native, as most people across the world prefer their leaders to be. Why on earth would you choose to be ruled by a foreigner?Celts are native BTW. Who considers Scots to be an 'ethnic minority'?

[@donaldderp1602]

+Ruaridh B Lets just hope the Blairites/Red Tories are out by then.

[@swfcocs1]

+Aerfen fuck fascists and bigots

[@theinnategamer4559]

It's because people in Britain have grown a pair that they vote Conservative because they understand the need for economic prosperity to support people because I know it's a scary fact but if you don't make money you can't pay to support people in need genius

[@mangamasterman]

hallelujah!

[@sandrahn]

couldn't have said it better!

[@tbx]

her legacy lingers on like a plague

[@thebouncinghearts]

DROWN THE RICH AND SOAK THE POOR!!!!!!

[@grahamlive]

I'd be interested to know why, seeing as how you love Thatcher so much, are you listening to a playlist of Billy Bragg songs?

[@JKelseyuk]

New Labour having abandoned Clause 4 was in her own own words Thatchers greatest achievement so yes you indeed correct.

[@franknwalters]

Go Stephen!!

[@TheSpupEh]

Your leader she is gone, gone for good, gone for good. Your leader she is gone, gone for good.

[@MLISlC]

The uncorrupted man of the people

[@RoyalCoyote]

Tbh Thatcher is the resean the youth like me carnt get a job

[@fedirshchus5467]

"resean" "carnt", Yeah, for some 'resean' I don't think that's the case..

[@piper51786]

XD

[@TempestBob]

To be fair she didn't do much for the education system either.

[@arthurgride8207]

why don't you blame Gladstone?

[@lyndseykramer]

Wish I had enough money to see you in Salisbury tonight. Hope it went well. x

[@jamesahmed1889]

Your leader she has gone to the lord to the lord & she's left us little Dave. She maybe gone now, but the fight continues

[@shatakan]

The whole world is ours, property rights are a bourgeois construction.

[@marla2muttonchops]

solidarity!

[@lukecackett4566]

The tune of this song is an old folk tune called "Jack Hall"

[@Ollie900Japan]

Had this posted on my RIP status for her, and I still stand by it. RIP Maggie. Much missed.

[@mks8172]

Same

[@andrewbluebells2370]

IRON LADY!!!!!, PUPPET LADY TO THE RULING CLASSES

[@Oblfreak]

R.I.P. Rot In Pieces!

[@annikee59]

Time for an updated!!

[@derf9465]

I wonder if May will leave in tears also

[@grahampunk]

would be better in a coffin !

[@roberthigginson2363]

Hey Billy Boy There is a place for a union , ask a solicitor , we ALL pull together workers together , You , Sting , Mark, and Bruce Spingsteen . Come on , Sting is doing opening night at theBatavan in paris are you supporting ? Come on Billy Bragg !

[@professorgmkallas4691]

Brit workers got screwed by 'Maggie ' and her friendlies .... the start of neolibs.... Billy LUV U

[@anarchistwaffle12]

Well said, Simian

[@brenttwilson]

Vote Labour June 8th!!

[@Gazelly]

Someone make a rendition for Reagan

[@stephennield4719]

The tories took away what was ours. We will reclaim it all back one day.

[@stanleysdad]

Hopefully starting this Thursday

[@deepblue1397]

You have a good knowledge of German history.

[@jamesahmed1889]

The scabs they hide their faces in shame yes in shame the scabs they hide the faces in shame.

[@tricky1992000]

The people will rise again

[@seanhartnett79]

Local 411 of the Hell pits is on strike over thatchers attempts to privatize the pits of hell!

[@christineblewer9788]

dejavous...

[@mdcrighton]

its a good reworking of the old Jacobite song...and very relevant even now, Thatchers not gone, her twisted hate filled, anti working class politics are very much alive and kicking....kicking the shit out of everyday working people while making sure that the haves continue to have.

[@JJR93]

Younger millennial friend of mine (I'm Gen X) said the other day "I'm sorry, I just don't see an alternative to capitalism" and I said "Neither did Maggie Thatcher, and I think she was wrong, too....along with Francis 'End of History' Fukuyama...."

[@ciaracustard]

Protest songs have existed as long as people have oppressed each other. I think Billy would be one of the first people to say what a huge influence Guthrie was on him but why is that a bad thing? Even if you don't like him, I think his message is an important one and he probably brought Guthrie's work to people who wouldn't have otherwise known of him. That's got to be a good thing.

[@chrisparker5796]

FUCK YEAH.

[@anarchistwaffle12]

Clement Atlee got over 50% of the vote, the conservative victories since 1955 have consistently had a lower % of the vote than the victory before them, socialism IS winning! Once we have buried Thatcher (R.I.P) we can bury Thatcherism! Long live Atlee and Bevan! Long live the International! Long live the working people!

[@jamesahmed1889]

DING DONG

[@993Redveg]

The tailor is done for, The people said to the Bishop. It was the talk of the fair His wings were smashed And he was dashed On the hard, hard stones of the square. Toll the bells in the steeple, It was all a lie Man is no bird No one will ever fly, The Bishop said to the people. This small verse by Berthold Brecht puts it all in a nutshell. Quite something to ponder in this age of supersonic flight.

[@MrJeams25]

let start the party ;)

[@MrThisistooeasy]

let us not forget the lessons of the past as Cameron is carrying on the work of Thatcher making all that should be ours by right only the privilege of the upper classes such as quality education and healthcare, the right to a quality retirement and state pension.