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Morrissey compares effect of London 2012 Olympics to Nazi Germany

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A passage in Morrissey's open letter read: "I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The "dazzling royals" have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. It is lethal to witness.

"As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. Meanwhile the British media present 24-hour coverage of the 'dazzling royals', laughing as they lavishly spend, as if such coverage is certain to make British society feel fully whole.

"In 2012, the British public is evidently assumed to be undersized pigmies, scarcely able to formulate thought. As I recently drove through Greece I noticed repeated graffiti seemingly everywhere on every available wall. In large blue letters it said WAKE UP WAKE UP."

More here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/...i-germany.html

I love Morrissey as an artist.

He acts like such a twat though, urgh.

Morrissey is a moany old git.

It's not exactly like we were going to make cut backs on The Olympics now is it?

Although I agree with some of his points he does manage to go grossly overboard at times and this is one of them.

I agree with the stuff about Kate/The Royals, don't get what she's done to be seen as darling of the Olympics

Nazi Germany?.. okay then Morrissey