Oasis ex-frontman Noel Gallagher has claimed he would reform the band if it would stop Jeremy Corbyn from becoming the prime minister.
The musician, who is a vocal critic of the Labour Party leader, was asked by TalkSport if he’d rather reunite Oasis or see Corbyn elected. He replied: “I’d have to get the band back together, I think. I don’t want that lunatic running the country.”
Last year, during promotion for his band High Flying Birds’s album Who Built the Moon?, Gallagher said in an interview: “F**k Jeremy Corbyn. He’s a Communist. And Trump’s a…a…I’m not even going to name him. But they don’t affect my life. Well, Donald Trump, maybe, because his views on the environment are pretty f**king scary, and that will affect my children.”
“But politicians? They’re f**king idiots. They’re economists—that’s all they are. They’re f**king full of shit, and I should know because I’ve known quite a few of them.”
The rock star had publicly supported Tony Blair’s New Labour in 1997 but has said he was disappointed by their actions in government. “Speaking as somebody from the left, I thought the New Labour years, coming up to 1997, were amazing. It was so exciting to be in England at the time, because there were so many things going on,” he said in a 2016 interview. ”But then, the Labour Party proved themselves to be ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss’, and until that changes, I’m not having it.”
He also made clear his distaste for the Conservative Party, adding: "The Tories don’t care about the vulnerable, and the communists don’t care about the aspirational."
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