
La proposta de Billy és de no pagar més impostos fins que el govern no determini un límit “raonable” pels bonus del Royal Bank of Scotland, un dels casos més flagrants ja que el govern (la gent) són amos de 80% del banc i estan repartint diners pels directors com si s’anava a acabar el món. Ell proposa un límit de 25.000 lliures.
Billy ha obert una pagina al Facebook amb més de 30.000 “amics” i aquest cap de setmana ha parlat al Speakers’ Corner a Hyde Park, un lloc on qualsevol persona es pot posar a parlar en públic cada diumenge de matí del tema que li molesta. A continuació el vídeo. Aquí tenim el Facebook i aquí la pagina web i blocs.
Canviant de campanya, als anys 80 Billy Bragg va escriure moltes cançons critiques amb el govern de Thatcher o la direcció que agafava la societat anglesa. Aquí tenim It Says Here, una critica dels diaris sensacionalistes. Del LP Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, al 1984.
Billy Bragg, singer and eternal activist, has set off another campaign, bewildered by the fact that bankers are still paying themselves huge bonuses after being bailed out with public money. One case in particular that amazes and offends Billy, and most of us I suppose, is how the Royal Bank of Scotland with 80% public ownership (i.e. us, the taxpayers) is carrying on as if nothing had changed over the last couple of years, helping themselves to huge handouts in the form of “bonuses” – presumably for good work!
The gist of Billy’s campaign is for the public to refuse to pay taxes until the government limits these bonuses to, say, a maximum of 25,000 pounds.
For the campaign there’s a Facebook account and webpage with blogs. Billy also recently spoke at Speakers’ Corner - see below.
Going back to his other concerns in the 1980s when he first became famous, today’s song is It Says Here, about the tabloid press, from Brewing Up With Billy Bragg back in 1984.