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Thursday 6 January 2011

Why should songwriters starve

The Register quoted Billy Bragg as asking 'Why should songwriters starve so that the Web 2.0 kids and tech VCs get rich?' Why indeed?

Here's what is claimed to be Billy 'left wing activist' Bragg's home in the pleasant Dorset town of Burton Bradstock...


Very nice Billy, every working class hero should have one!


Meanwhile The Daily Mash took a look at the story in its own way:
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Billy Bragg has absolutely gigantic house


YOU would not believe the size of Billy Bragg's house, it emerged last night

As Bragg's neighbours received anonymous letters urging them to drive the hectoring socialist monster out of their sleepy Dorset village, everyone said who cares about that shit, look at the size of that bloody thing.

Bragg bought the house 11 years ago as a protest against living somewhere really pokey without a glorious view and an acre of expertly manicured left-wing garden.

Tom Logan, a man who thinks New England is quite good, said: "I always imagined he lived in a terrace in a moderately gentrified part of east London, surrounded by people from a variety of cultures that he would 'jam' with.

"And I assumed that he would keep just enough money to live a simple life and give the rest to poor people or small circulation magazines about struggles.

"I have to say that the sheer heft of Mr Bragg's house has come as something of a shock."

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Bill McKay, a man who has not worked in 11 years because of Thatcher, stressed that he would have been willing to accept a very small percentage of the money Mr Bragg spent on his sprawling seaside mansion.

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Last night Bragg said he would have given more money to poor people if it was not for the extension and the double glazing and confirmed that anyone who noticed the size of his house was just an 'old fashioned racist'.'

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