Attending the 60th Olivier Awards – Brian May said admitted he was “very angry and upset” over UK election result…
DIGITAL SPY reported Brian’s comments
21 May 2015
“I was very close to suicide,” May said of the election result at today’s Ivor Novello Awards in London. “I’ve just about got over it actually. I was very angry and upset because we were hoping for something different. I was hoping this election would be the last one in which the two-party system was seen to be representative of what we want. I think the public does actually want something very different. But unfortunately there was a massive propaganda machine which swamped everyone with fear of Scotsmen with kilts running this country, and that’s what won the election. I think even the people that voted in that direction are even thinking, ‘Oh my God, what happened? What did I do?’ We’re back in a dictatorship situation for the next five years. We don’t have a parliament which can actually discuss things and make decisions.”
On concerns of government selling off state-owned assets such as the NHS:
“We’re no distance away from selling off the NHS because they’ve started already. All of this, ‘We’re going to put loads of money into the NHS’ is a complete smokescreen. Yes, there are already parts of the National Health Service that are privatised, and are making money for private individuals. I think that’s a scandal beyond belief. Somehow the wool was pulled over our eyes. The biggest problem we have at the moment is truth. There’s is nowhere to go to find the truth – it’s very hard. We’re swamped with all this propaganda, and most of it is untrue – in the press. I think finding the truth is something we should very seriously engage in.”