Why I Had To Change My Lyrics For David Cameron

When I first heard, a few days beforehand, that David Cameron would be on the same Andrew Marr show as my band Squeeze, I thought about changing the lyrics to the song we would perform in protest – in fact, I thought about redoing the whole thing. But then the next day I thought: “No, that would be a ridiculous thing to do.” So I didn’t write any new lyrics in advance. But then, just 10 minutes or so before we went on, I was listening to the interview he gave to Marr and he was talking about his housing policy. And I felt: “I have to say something.” Cameron was talking about knocking down sink estates and rebuilding “affordable housing”. It has got to the point where people are no longer able to live in the areas where they grew up unless they have some sort of financial help. Read more on the Guardian website.