[kj] OT: Morrissey says he won't live in England; too many immigrants

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

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Morrissey 'refuses to live in the UK because of immigration explosion'

By JAMES SLACK - 

The pop singer Morrissey claims he can no longer live in a Britain he 
believes lost to an "immigration explosion".

The former frontman of the Smiths, who is now based in Rome, claimed 
England was just 'a memory now'.

The 48-year-old added: "Other countries have held on to their basic 
identity yet it seems to me that England was thrown away.

"The change in England is so rapid compared to the change in any other 
country.

"If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you 
won't hear an English accent.

"You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

"The British identity is very attractive, I grew up into it and I find 
it quaint and very amusing."

Morrissey, who has sung of his love for English culture and can count 
Tory leader David Cameron as a fan, is the son of an Irish immigrant 
family which settled in Manchester.

In 1986, when The Smiths released their critically-acclaime

d album The Queen is Dead, the UK had a population of 56million.

It now stands at 60million and some predict that could almost double by 
2081.

Morrissey's comments were made in interviews with the music magazine NME.

In the mid-1990s he was accused of racism after wearing a Union Jack on 
stage and releasing the songs Bengali in Platforms and the 
ironically-named National Front Disco.

The singer's supporters insisted he had been seeking only to reclaim the 
flag from extremists.

Tim Jonze, the reporter who conducted the interview, said: "Morrissey 
has had a stormy relationship with this magazine and its readers over 
the last three decades.

"He might once have been the voice of a generation but given his 
comments in these two interviews, he's certainly not speaking for us now."

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