Bragg’s song is awful. I can’t imagine even he believes his own crap anymore. He sounds like he’s just too obstinate to ever admit he’s wrong. Billy Bragg will go to his grave a fool who was wrong in every opinion he ever voiced
Bragg is the kind of person that Danny Elfman was referring to, in the song “Capitalism”...
You’re just a middle class socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that you’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about the suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain, you dumb ___?