At midnight tonight, it will be 50 years since the Marine Offences Act outlawed broadcasting from a boat off the British mainland.
The Minister responsible was Tony Benn. Well, of course it was.
For all its alleged left-wingery, and its ability to annoy the forces of conservatism no end, rock’n’roll was made up of common or garden proto-Thatcherites, often tax exiles.
The only exceptions were David Bowie and Eric Clapton, way out on the Far Right.
The Sixties Swingers hated with a burning passion the Labour Government of 1964 to 1970.
The pirate radio stations were their revolt against its and the BBC’s deal with the Musicians’ Union to protect the livelihoods of that union’s members.
Behind this union-busting criminality was Oliver Smedley, who was later to be a key figure behind the proto-Thatcherite Institute of Economic Affairs.
Viewers of The Boat That Rocked, which is now a mainstay of late night television, should consider that the Postmaster General so mercilessly ridiculed in it was in fact Tony Benn, and that the Prime Minister who legislated against pirate radio was Harold Wilson.
Those Swingers used the lowering of the voting age to put what they thought were the Selsdon Tories into office in 1970.
They then went on to entrench their own moral, social and cultural decadence and libertinism, first in the economic sphere during the 1980s, and then also in the constitutional sphere under Tony Blair.
David Cameron accepted uncritically the whole package: moral, social, cultural, economic, and constitutional. Indeed, he embodied it.
The apparently coming Boris Johnson accepts uncritically the whole package: moral, social, cultural, economic, and constitutional. Indeed, he embodies it.
When is this country going to wake up to what has really been happening over the last 50 years?
The Minister responsible was Tony Benn. Well, of course it was.
For all its alleged left-wingery, and its ability to annoy the forces of conservatism no end, rock’n’roll was made up of common or garden proto-Thatcherites, often tax exiles.
The only exceptions were David Bowie and Eric Clapton, way out on the Far Right.
The Sixties Swingers hated with a burning passion the Labour Government of 1964 to 1970.
The pirate radio stations were their revolt against its and the BBC’s deal with the Musicians’ Union to protect the livelihoods of that union’s members.
Behind this union-busting criminality was Oliver Smedley, who was later to be a key figure behind the proto-Thatcherite Institute of Economic Affairs.
Viewers of The Boat That Rocked, which is now a mainstay of late night television, should consider that the Postmaster General so mercilessly ridiculed in it was in fact Tony Benn, and that the Prime Minister who legislated against pirate radio was Harold Wilson.
Those Swingers used the lowering of the voting age to put what they thought were the Selsdon Tories into office in 1970.
They then went on to entrench their own moral, social and cultural decadence and libertinism, first in the economic sphere during the 1980s, and then also in the constitutional sphere under Tony Blair.
David Cameron accepted uncritically the whole package: moral, social, cultural, economic, and constitutional. Indeed, he embodied it.
The apparently coming Boris Johnson accepts uncritically the whole package: moral, social, cultural, economic, and constitutional. Indeed, he embodies it.
When is this country going to wake up to what has really been happening over the last 50 years?
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