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Julie Burchill: ‘That’s why Billy Bragg gets off the hook’

January 13, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Julie Burchill writes:

If he was living in a £1.5m house in the countryside, then those Neanderthal detractors currently making a song and dance about his desertion of Dagenham for Dorset would have a bit of a point, albeit a badly-punctuated one. If you’re going to champion multi-culturalism and then push off to a place probably marginally whiter than Switzerland (where another Socialist scold, Annie Lennox, somewhat interestingly chose to live for some time – NOTHING to do with the tax benefits, of course!) you could possibly be accused of hypocrisy. But he moved to the seaside!

Even if it is a clifftop mansion in Burton Bradstock rather than a hovel in Hastings…

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