Johnson ‘sociopath,’ destroys planet – rocker
Credit to Author: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE| Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 17:17:14 +0000
VENICE: Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters branded British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a dangerous “sociopath.”
The singer said Johnson and other populist leaders like Donald Trump are hell-bent on destroying the planet as a movie of his latest world tour, “Us + Them’’ — which highlighted the plight of migrants — was premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
He said that like Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, Johnson and Trump had embarked on “a wilful quest to destroy this beautiful planet on which we live.
“If we do not resist the neo-liberal and neo-fascist forces that are tearing the planet apart there will not be anything left for our children and their children,” the veteran star declared.
British-born Waters, a long-time supporter of left-wing causes, told the Agence France-Presse that Johnson “fits all the fascist paradigms. He is a larger-than-life buffoon totally uninterested in anything beyond how can he can get power, he said.
“Fascism is always an unholy alliance between the ruling and the corporate class with the popular support of the uneducated mass. That is what is happening in the UK at the moment,” Waters insisted.
Nevertheless, the rocker said he would gladly sit down with Trump, Johnson or Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage “if such a meeting would bear fruit. I am a great believer of the stone dropped in the well… and the ripple that might do some good.”
But the writer of such classic protest songs as “The Wall” said none of the wave of populist leaders across Europe were capable of feeling “for a fellow human being.