Some thoughts on crusties with credit cards…

Recession always works to ruling class advantage. There is no generation gap, just those in and out of society. The moronic Labour party still cannot understand this. Their dinosaur ideology believed that they could capture working class votes with high taxation (over £25,000), not realising that the working class judge their interests not from where they are (dole/squat/school) but where they wish they could be (BMW/Hampstead/Malibu). Second only in ideological stupidity to the Labour party is the pre-industrialised politics of The Levellers. Child-like. Heh Jeremy — if all men are equal then why should the state support the nomadic lifestyle of the happy hitchers. How d'ya justify that? Oh, it's Anarchy. Some kind of Anarchy! Right now you are Northern Textmill owners for your T-shirt empire. Soon you'll be franchise coal owners for your camp fires. Cottage Industry Capitalism. Back to nature and Anglo-Saxon morals (with 100k p.a., catering staff and roadies) But you're individualists not socialists. Beg your pardon. That sounds more like Terry Waite's Desert Island Discs Christian humanity, than 20^th century realpolitik. And in case you think no one else has read your heroes — for every Lilburne we got Thatcher for every Walwyn we got Henry Ford, for every Overton we got Kinnock, for every Wildman we got Churchill. Crusties with a credit card. Me, I'm gonna go and wash, get clean and play a CD crime? Why don't you stay pure to your principles and only record in mono you luddite Thatcher children. I also hate potato wine and I love my Sega megadrive. Reality. You are Britain's cultural Chernobyl.

Richey, July 1992.