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David Cameron's Smiths photo scuppered by protesters

Fans tell Conservative leader to 'get on his bike'

January 11, 2008 | 7 Comments
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Protestors scuppered Tory leader David Cameron's plan to recreate The Smiths’ iconic photograph of the band outside Salford Lads’ Club with him in it yesterday (January 10).

Cameron wanted a publicity shot of himself to be taken outside the iconic venue during a whistle-stop tour of Salford, but protesters prevented the photograph being taken.

Local protesters held placards saying, “Oi! Dave – Eton Lads’ is 300 miles”, a reference to Cameron’s private school upbringing.

Another read: “Salford lads not Eton snobs”.

Salford resident Matthew Mold, 26, told The Sun: “This visit is disgraceful. What have the Tories ever done for working-class families?”

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shields123

Jan 11, 2008

Well- Salford resident Matthew Mold, 26......The Tories (under Thatcher) actually allowed many members of the working class to buy their own council houses and this had a huge impact in terms of many of them voting for Thatcher irrespective of how her Tory government blinkeredly pursued a policy of industrial privatisation and consequently forced more than 3.5 million into unemployment.........oh yeah, and they made the majority of the working class politicaly apathetic.

john_010

Jan 11, 2008

â€œThis visit is disgraceful. What have the Tories ever done for working-class families?â€ erm......they gave council tenants the right buy their homes for a start....

Pipkins1

Jan 11, 2008

How naieve! The only reason she sold off the council houses was so that local councils could get out of their massive debts without central funding from London. None of that revenue went back into building new accomation for the poorer families. Any body that even considers voting Tory should read some history books rather than wallowing in their Daily Mails and Torygraphs!

piphenry

Jan 11, 2008

they should be greatful that the club is actually getting coverage seeing as the state it's in is crap. The Conservatives are gonna get back in government in the next election anyway so they better get used to some tories about. Stupid working class people trying to be 'rebels'...

thattallguy

Jan 14, 2008

I think today is the day that rock and roll died! with 3/4 comments been in favour of the tories (i realise the irony of my sentence as its now 2/5). He is trying to high jack the image of the smiths, for his own means. The protesters did right and the rest of you need to learn a bit of rock and roll.

niall_the_don

Jan 16, 2008

Sample Morrissey lyric
"I've been dreaming of a time when ... England is sick to death of Labour and Tories."
David Cameron is an idiot

JAYNELOVESMARR

Jan 16, 2008

awww, after all's said and done, why shouldn't the guy be allowed to pay homage to his favourite band?Politics aside, the guy is just as entitled as any other fan to visit the club, and have his photo taken etc, good on him, i say, I hope he enjoyed his day, sad protestors aside.