Brit rocker Jarvis Cocker got some flack recently when he criticized UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour party in an interview with GQ magazine. Here’s the quote that got people all bent out of shape: “A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. You can sense an era passing.”
As you would imagine, Cocker didn’t intend to alienate any of his more liberal fans (he just wants “to live like common people”), so he offered a more specific explanation for the comment to NME.com.
“In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it,” Cocker said. “Rather, what I intended to get across was in the absence of any real alternative a Conservative government at the moment seems unfortunately seems inevitable.”