Music

David Cameron's love for the Smiths addressed at House of Commons

by Ciaran Thompson

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been in the news recently for potentially raising student tuition fees and, remarkably, for his comments regarding his love for former Manchester band The Smiths.

Last week guitarist Johnny Marr told Cameron he is “forbidden” from liking the band and few days ago Morrissey concurred and even used the opportunity to speak out about some problems he has with current Conservative-led government in the UK.

Today Cameron’s comments regarding The Smiths made it all the way to the House of Commons with Labour MP Kerry McCarthy dropping the recent debacle into one of her questions regarding the vote tomorrow on raising tuition fees.

McCarthy asked, “The Smiths are, of course, the archetypal student band. If he wins tomorrow night’s vote, what songs does he think students will be listening to? ‘Miserable Lie,’ ‘I Don’t Owe You Anything’ or ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’?”

Cameron responded with, “I expect that if I turned up I probably wouldn’t get ‘This Charming Man’ and if I went with the Foreign Secretary (William Hague) it would probably be ‘William It Was Really Nothing’.” [NME]

Watch video footage of the question period below.