Political activist for his own opinion, Billy Bragg is on Question Time. You wouldn't want to leave your kids with him, not for any awful reason I'm sure, but because he might lose them. Or let them walk off a cliff. He has some very strange ideas, rarely related to a world based on atoms and molecules, but more a sort of Pixar world.
He is not even quite the usual dopey dream world Leftie, he is his own, singular Left wing. Luckily the BBC have managed to find a decent enough crowd of people for whom thinking is a rare treat and who will applaud anything that is labelled as an attack on the Tories. Including walking off a cliff. So Bragg should be safe with his earnest sounding, passionately stated nonsense.
He thinks the Human Rights Act is fantastically important and the fact that it allows criminals to ignore the consequences of their actions, marvellous. Right up until an illegal immigrant robs him, I bet. That we respect some quoted level of human existence is fine and correct, but where even in this lazily drawn up law, that judges take great delight in perverting, does it say that the right to a life, a family life means in this country?
If a criminal breaks our laws and has no right of abode here, or the crime means we revoke it, that is his choice. As someone in the audience pointed out, that is a civil matter not an inalienable right. Who else ends up with a right to live in Britain, anyone who just wants to?
Bragg has also said that we should not use QE money to give to banks, but to individuals, if anyone and allow them to spend it. Now, I'm not too far adrift from that line, except the logical extension of this would be not to carry on giving so much to government, but allow people to make their own decisions and I doubt he means that. I suspect Billy dislikes bankers hence the comment, but would be fine with people being impoverished by a Left government.
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