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Jarvis Cocker: 'I don't support them but a Conservative government is necessary'

Former Pulp man says Labour's era is over

Jarvis Cocker has said he thinks Britain needs a Conservative government.

The former Pulp frontman revealed that he has become disillusioned with Gordon Brown and the Labour party in general in an interview with GQ.

"I think his [Gordon Brown's] behaviour just makes a mockery of the whole system," Cocker is quoted as saying in the interview.

"A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. You can sense an era passing."

However speaking to NME.COM Cocker explained that he was not supporting David Cameron or his party.

"In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it," he declared. "Rather, what I intended to get across was in the absence of any real alternative a Conservative government at the moment seems unfortunately seems inevitable."
 

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Thommy_Gun 

Apr 28, 2009

if hes a socialist why dont he vote the socialist party onstead of the lacklustre anit partisan alternative?

ed2005 

Apr 28, 2009

Jarvis in 1997 as a twenty year old I campaigned around my university campus to get labour elected. Betrayed as I have felt subsequently (tuition fees, Iraq, a so-called minimum wage that is still uneven), I have been living in Scotland since 2001. I feel as strongly now in 200 as I did in 1997 that I could never bring myself to vote for the Conservatives. I have seen first-hand the damage that the Tories have done. I have worked as a teacher in some of the most deprived areas and seen how communities were ripped to shreds as the infrastructure centered around local industries collapsed. I've spent six weeks in an elite private school where I had to cut privelged little sods down to size for snobby remarks. We are still paying for the 1980s abomination of Thatcher. As for you, with your working class northerner persona, how can you square the world depicted in your lyrics with wishing a Tory government on Britain? We never expected any better from Phil Collins. But we did expect better from you.

ognum1971 

Apr 29, 2009

wow -thats almost like saying "just bend over and take it-its pointless"come on jarvis a little too defitest

bhowell 

Apr 29, 2009

Couldn't agree more ed2005. The government isn't perfect but everything about the current situation, bad as it is, would have been worse under the Tory's policies, which were pretty much the same as George Bush's! If we're not careful, we'll end up with a Tory government again and surely noone really wants that?

minni 

May 6, 2009

i really hope this has been misconstrued. hearing him say this is just gutting.

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