@PumpkinGator@batcountry1980 I was reared on a housing estate in a small town during the depressed late 70's and early 80's in Ireland. That song mirrored my, and most people I knew experience. It wasn't a media narrative. It was reality. There's plenty revisionist fantasy about that period now, on this /
@PumpkinGator@batcountry1980 Weller, for all his faults, was working class. He was raised, like the vast majority who followed him at the time, on or just above the breadline. To say it was a sneer by him, or looking down on, the working class is quite possibly the worst take on that song I've ever heard ffs
@Eddie1972@o_reachtaire@ericn131@NorthernPeasant Until they go over there. Then they're considered as Irish as The Blarney Stone by 99.9% of the people who actually live on the island of Great Britain.
@HollandsnieuweS@roisinmurphy@timelesscolours The independent, forward thinking, successful Country that is Ireland in the 21st century would not exist if it wasn't for "that shit".
@BligheDerek Blocking the only refinery in the country is unwise at a time when there's already a worldwide disruption in fuel supply, biting you're nose off to spite you're face. This was always going to end badly and was going to turn public opinion sour.
@HuffPost Did he rush to join up when he was 18, damaged old man wants to send other peoples kids into danger when he didn't have the backbone to do it himself.
@o_reachtaire Nonsense, they defined true youth rebellion in the 60's. Avant Garde before the Velvets, Punk before the MC5. If their output went down its only brcause the lasted into the 80's. The Small Faces were over by 68.