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Image: Babyshambles lead singer Pete Doherty was unable to support the campaign against the BNP; he’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4150 on drug related charges.
By Peter Kimmich
Don’t judge a book by its cover, or more specifically in the case of Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell, don’t judge a book by its unwashed hair and crackhouse-fancying lead singer.
One might decide from the look of McConnell and the rest of Babyshambles that the closest they get to government affairs is the back seat of one of those funny-looking British police cars. But McConnell raised eyebrows by urging Londoners to vote in the upcoming assembly elections in order to keep one of Britain’s political parties out of the assembly, NME reported Tuesday. What was his motivation? A drug law? An issue dealing with public display of reckless and gleeful drunkenness? Apparently it was only admirable concern over the state of his country. You go, Drewsky.
McConnell spoke out rather passionately, calling for voters to prevent the British National Party from gaining power. “The London assembly elections happen every four years, and last time the BNP were just 5,000 votes off getting a seat,” he said to NME. “That might sound like a lot, but 5,000 votes is actually just 0.1 per cent!” The BNP is a right-wing political party whose aim, according to their official site, is “a future for the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3845 of these islands in the North Atlantic which have been our homeland for millennia.”
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